( don't laugh this is sometime around 1983ish I'm not for sure on the year, most of my siblings, and a cousin in the back. My baby sister is not yet in the picture but you can see the size of the pumpkins. The one behind me, I'm the redhead at the bottom! LOL! is almost bigger than I was!)

I don't dress up for Halloween much anymore. I used to growing up. I can remember my mom always did HUGE parties at our house growing up. I can remember one time, she made us menu's with octopus legs, which was hot dogs cut part way up and the legs curled when they were cooked! We had to order our spoons and knifes. They had strange names and we didn't know what we were ordering. It wa so cool. That's the one I remember the most. She always had us do pumpkins and for school we always entered a pumpkin carving contest. One time we got it for the BIGGEST pumpkins. My mom always has had a garden too. She grew these enormous pumpkins one year. That was great fun. I was going through some old pictures. I'll see if I can post some since I don't have any this year.

We did get quite a few trick-or-treaters! It's was fun. I like being buried in a neighborhood. The parents were either walking the kids to the houses and waiting for them on the sidewalk or driving to the end of the street and letting the kids walk up the street. We did get one set of teenagers, but they were dressed up and they were actually doing a food drive for canned stuff for a local church. I thought that was pretty cool! I gave them more candy!