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Happy Halloween!

As always, Andrew and watched ONLY scary movies in October …. And since we don’t watch scary movies any other time of the year, we tend to binge.

This year was a littler lighter – just because we had guests in town one weekend and Andrew was out of town another weekend.

This is [...]

Dear fall

 

Dear fall,

I love you. I’m so glad you’re finally here.

Andrew built the rest of our window screens last week just so we could enjoy you more.

Thank you for giving me a reason to break out my cardigans and rain boots.

Thank you for making apples and almond butter taste [...]

Andrew’s Halloween costume

Saturday night Andrew went to a costume-concert … Whatever that is.

He spent a bit of time Saturday trying to come up with a last minute costume – buying white thrift store women’s jeans that were about 3 sizes too big and an Elvira-type wig. Yes, really.

His plan was to be Andrew W.K. [...]

Happy Halloween and Scary October

You may have noticed, this year we watched SIGNIFICANTLY fewer scary movies than last year. Thank goodness.

We were TOTALLY overwhelmed

2008 2009 2010

(listed in roughly the order we watched them)

The Fog – John Carpenter’s 1980 film about killer creatures that come in with the fog … It *could* be really creepy, [...]

Autumn tradition: Corn maze

One of my favorite newer Autumn traditions has been visiting a corn maze!!

This is something neither Andrew nor I did growing up, but when we lived in Arizona, Michelle introduced us to the wonder and glory of navigating a corn maze after dark …

Last year (2010) Tucson corn maze (2007) Tucson corn [...]

Guilty Pleasure: Ghost Adventures

 I think you can tell from this photo why watching Ghost Adventures is such a guilty pleasure – instead of a perfectly acceptable TV show to like

Of course, I’m kidding – you shouldn’t judge a show (or the people on it) by their appearance. … But that doesn’t make [...]

10 things I love about Autumn

 (in no particular order)

hot apple cider, with carmel, cinnamon and whipped cream cooler weather, turning off the AC and needing an quilt pumpkin patches and nighttime corn mazes apples and peanut butter baked potatoes and homemade soup scarves and cardigans Scary October hoodie sweatshirts candy corn Harry Potter and Band [...]

Happy Halloween 2010

Andrew and I have a tradition. We ONLY watch scary movies during October. And we don’t watch them any other time of the year. …

The last couple years around July or so we’ve started getting really excited about October. Adding new movies to our Netflix queue….

This year we watched Cemetery Man to [...]

Scary Movie October nights

The last couple years Andrew and I have established our new favorite family tradition: during the month of October we watch ONLY scary movies. In fact, we don’t watch scary movies at any other time of the year. Only in October.

I’d like to think that we’re spreading the joy – we’ve had several [...]

Happy Halloween 2009

As I type this, we still have about 4 or 5 scary movies on our Netflix queue and at least 3 still in the house. Once we get started with this tradition, we just throw ourselves into it, I guess.

Plus, we missed 8-ish days of prime scary-movie-watching time because of a little thing [...]

Happy Halloween!

Over the last few months Andrew and I have been watching a lot of scary movies – horror, suspense, thriller, etc. I’m not sure what started it. Somehow I borrowed Poltergeist from my cousin Spencer and it just went from there.

We had so much fun getting all kinds of different movies from Netflix [...]