Last year for Halloween Michael wanted to be Sorcerer Mickey and we looked everywhere locally to find the costume with no luck.  When we decided that we were going to be able to go to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World I knew I had to try and make this costume happen.  Here's how we went about making this costume.

I'm always looking for new ways to decorate the house for Halloween.  Several weeks ago, I saw a video on Facebook where they stacked three plastic pumpkins and made it into a house number for the front porch.  I decided to do my own spin on that idea.  Here's how I did just that.

Even before I became a mom, I've always decorated the house with Disney items.  It's a lifestyle that has grown the older I've gotten.  So, it's no surprise that last year I decided to make a Mickey Mouse jack-o-lantern for Halloween.

This past weekend we took a trip in to visit my mom and to enjoy Fall in the Mid-Ohio Valley.  One of the places on the list to go was Sweetapple Farm in hopes to find some decent sized pumpkins at a reasonable price.  I also knew that there would be some fun activities to participate in while we were there.

Looking for a simple and fun way to bring Halloween to your child's school Halloween party?  Last year when the list came out of the items that were needed for the class Halloween party, I quickly signed up for the cheese balls.  The class moms had also asked for us to be as creative as possible.  Here's how I was able to do just that!

Since last year everyone was impressed with my Toy Story trunk-or-treat theme, I had to up my game when it came to this year's trunk-or-treat at Michael's school.  I knew that whatever I did, it wasn't going to work with my trunk.  My brother was awesome enough and let me borrow his SUV.  I knew that the theme had to be Peanuts.  Here's how Jon and I pulled it off:

A few weeks ago, we took Michael to the Pumpkin Village at Leesburg Animal Park to have some Fall time family fun.  A few years after moving here, we were taking a drive and ran across the animal park and it all decorated for what they used to call Pumpkinville.  I knew that once we had children, we would want to take them there.  It took a few years, but we finally got around to go.

Don't forget about dressing up your four legged child for Halloween this year.  Yes, your doggies want to get on the candy action too!  Ok, no candy for the dogs, but they can still have fun walking with kids during trick-or-treat or help with the handing out of candy.

A little late on posting about how we spent our Halloween this year, but better late than never.  I love the fact that Michael is starting to understand how fun Halloween is.  I mean, it's always been fun all the other years, but this year he seemed to have so much more fun.

Since Michael has started preschool we are experiencing a lot of new things that we've never done.  One of those things is trunk-or-treat.  We've heard about them and our nephews participated in one every year at their daycare, but had never participated in one ourselves.  Being the creative, cool parents that we are (or in our minds we think we are), we wanted to create something the kids would like.  Michael loves Toy Story and we had the main characters of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jessie so why not make my trunk into a scene from the movie!

Last year we made these ghost-o-lanterns and they were a big hit with all who came to our house trick-or-treating.  To see what they looked like last year, click here.

Since we have a tree in our front yard, we wanted to try and have some of our Halloween decorations hanging from it.  One of our neighbors down the street had these awesome ghosts that also lit up at night hanging from their tree.  I looked everywhere for them, but had no luck in finding them.  I decided that I would have to forget about our ghosts lighting up and just make some on my own.

Growing up I only remember one time having a carved pumpkin for Halloween.  For Jon, it was something his family did every year.  Since it was something that Jon loved to do with his family, we've been carving pumpkins for the past six years.

I know this is late and I had all intentions of writing about this weeks ago.  How about something fun to plan to do with the family next October.  We bought these 3D foam structure kits at Michaels and had so much fun putting them together.  I actually went to Michaels today and all Halloween items are on sale 80% off!  I bought two more kits for less than half the cost of one!  I'm set for next year.

I'm always looking for fun family activities to do and what's better than a free one?!?  There's a house in Leesburg, VA that does a light display for Christmas and Halloween.  We saw last year's Christmas display, but had never seen the Halloween display.

There seems to be so many awesome events and activities just within driving distance to where we live.  I've known about the train at Burke Lake Park in Fairfax Station, VA, but had never gotten around to taking Michael down to ride it.  When I was searching for something fun to do this past weekend, I found out that they have a ghost train for Halloween.

Last year I made these simple bats out of egg cartons.  To see the step-by-step how to, click here.  Last year I just sat them around the house for decorations.  When I was getting all the Halloween decorations out this year, Jon said they would look more like bats if we added ears and had them look like they are flying.

It's that time of the year when you get all dressed up in the scariest or sexiest costumes.  I normally don't get a costume for Halloween, but this year Michael's school is doing a trunk-or-treat so I decided that I would go and try and find a costume.  We always look every year at the Spirit Halloween store, but never end up buying anything.  This year was different.

Last year we wanted Michael to get into the Halloween fun of decorating a pumpkin.  Since he was only a little over a year old, we didn't want to have him carving a pumpkin.  On one of my shopping trips to Walmart, I ran across this awesome way to decorate a pumpkin, Mr Potato Head style.

Many years ago I had made the wreath on the left in Girl Scouts and over the years, the fabric had started falling out.  So, I decided that I would just redo it.  I went to our new Hobby Lobby and bought the circle foam on the right which was the smallest size they had.  When I got home, I learned that it was bigger than the original.  I knew that I wouldn't have enough fabric to cover the new wreath so, I went to our Jo-ann Fabric and Craft Store and bought half a yard of Halloween fabric.