First Snow!- And I'm the only one with Christmas lights up!!

I know, I know
all you Easterners
don't feel sorry for us at all... oh boo hoo Victorians have to deal with a bit of snow. Well let me tell you, being a prairie girl I don't mind a bit'o'snow at all, what I do mind is a City that has NO RESOURCES to deal with it. OMG, work and school was cancelled due to 20 cms of snow, gimme a break! That is a joke everywhere else in Canada.
The good thing is I got to teach my kids the art of superior snowball making, the techniques required for successfull snowman building AND expert engineering necessary for snow forts. ALSO given that I am a Christmas freak, my house was the only house on the block with Christmas lights and decorations up! YAY!!! I must say my house was the prettiest house all lit up at night, in the snow, in November, in Victoria.

yesterday was FUN!

so I know I know....
Christian in a position of quasi leadership at church encouraging the celebrating of a heathen holiday........
but come on!.............
FREE CANDY!!!!!

we had a lot of fun yesterday! we made spiders from oreo cookies, devilled eggs made from real devils :o), frankenstein rice, blended brain punch,and bloody cows tongue for dinner!
We decorated pumpkins, hung plastic ghosts from our rose bush and hung spooky lights from our deck. Also the twins and I designed some monster candy pails to go trick or treating with.
The kids laughed all day and even our oldest (14 yr. old -after finding out all his friends wanted to do was spend all night trying to scare people ) "dressed up" and told people his costume was "his Dad" - hahahahahahahahah, the littler boys would introduce him but be sure to tell people it was a costume so he wouldn't miss out on the candy. It was hysterical!
My daughter dressed up like Kat VonKat from Miami Ink, we even sprayed her Golden blond locks BLACK. I had fun "tatooing" her with black permanent marker which turns out isn't so permanent ( thank the Lord) Wow 13 year old costumes sure have changed I remember being a gypsy......
My 8 year old was the HULK, he wore 8 shirts to bulk up under his "green" skin, and the twins were a mummy and an "atomic wrestler".
Even my husband wore all black with an orange collar to work.
I wore a pirate mask all day and was praised for being "festive".

It's all fun! I love making "holidays" memorable. Making stuff with the kids, encouraging my kids (and adults) to participate, it's a good lesson no matter what the holiday.