My Love Song: The Very Late Halloween Post

The new laptop has a built in card reader that reads our messed up camera card! I am so excited. No more waiting for the time to get to a Kodak kiosk. Back to instant downloads. So about three weeks later ...Halloween.

Have you ever been to Spring Break in Panama City Beach? Are images of the strip coming to mind? Instead of bathing suit clad teenagers picture candy crazed costume clad kids and their parents and you have Clear Creek Colony on Halloween. I'm not sure why CCC is the Trick or Treating center of Tuscaloosa County. Maybe because it has sidewalks and is flat? But for some reason people come from all over the place to come. On the four lane highway outside our subdivision gates were lined up and down with parked cars. There were easily a thousand people walking the neighborhood. People had built haunted houses in their front lawns and garages. Grandparents set up stations in their garages.

Jennifer and Teral (otherwise known as BB's mommy and daddy) threw a party complete with a trick or treat hay ride. It was fantastic. Halloween Night this year was exactly what imagined trick or treating as a mom to be. Noah got it down right away. "Next house" "More candy please". He was adorable and we were building memories as a little family of three. It was magical. (I teared up a little watching Adam hold Noah's hand walking him door to door.)

We did have one dicey moment. Noah got a hold of a tootsie pop. He worked the paper off, so I let him have it. But then the stick disintegrated and the pop was in his mouth. I panicked and did what any mom would do, put my hand down his throat to get it out! Right there in front of two elderly grandparent types. They got me a paper towel and plastic bag to throw it away. Other than the near choking things were great. What a wonderful memory. Now for the important part... PICTURES!

Ghost Cupcakes and Candy Corn Cookies I made for the party.