Fall has arrived!

Halloween....one of my favorite times of the year. I use to love going out as a kid. Free candy... what more could a kid ask for??!! To be able to dress up and pretend to be someone else for a couple hours. What a grand idea!!

I remember one year when I lived in Norridgewock and was around 9 yrs old. There were two haunted houses and I pleaded with mom to take me to them. She gave in and did just that. One of them I backed out of going into. It wasn't that I was scared of it it was because I was dressed wrong. In the paper we got at school it said to dress up in costume and there was to be a party. Come to find out the info was wrong and I was the only one there dressed up. Of course I felt out of place and made mom leave.

Another place was just down the road from that one. I went into it and it was pretty neat. It had the usual Halloween themes. Stick your hand into a hole and feel what's on the other side. Usually it was suppose to be brains and guts. Most likely it was jello and spaghetti. In the barn there was this staircase and they had the classic head falling down the stairs. I thought it was all pretty neat. Always made me want to have my own haunted house for Halloween one day.

Last year was a bummer as it was the first Halloween that I have missed. I had to work at LL Bean that night so I missed out on everything. This year there is a possibility that I might miss it again. I am just not happy with that. Ashley is done for the most part but Logan still has a couple years left. I just don't want to miss out on that time with him.

One year was really funny. It was but yet it wasn't, at least for Logan it wasn't LOL! Chris, myself, Logan, Ashley and Cameron all went out walking around the neighborhood. Logan was dressed up as Darth Vader. He had on the helmet that does the voice changer. Well the face mask part was pretty big for him and it is tinted so he had a hard time seeing out of it. Of course it was dark out by then. We were walking across this one lawn and Logan walked right into a tree. Over backwards he went! I think it knocked him out for a second as he just layed there. We all saw it and heard the whack that it made. We never laughed so hard in our lives!

I just don't want to miss out on memories such as those. Kids grow up so fast!