Halloween Is Coming!

I love the Fall Season, the chilly air and wind! I also love Halloween, I remember many memories growing up where we would all dress up and go to my Aunt Lorna's house. She would have homemade Spahghetti sitting on the stove, the house would be decorated like a haunted house, and she always had dry ice out on the lawn so it looked nice and Foggy!
The "men" would take all the kids Trick or Treating (Sometimes there would bebe 10 plus kids/cousins) My step dad would be waving the flashlight so we did not fall and would yell at the drivers that went too fast. We would come back and forth to the house and eat and rest then go out again. Sometimes dropping off loads of candy. The women would stay at home and talk for hours, as I got older I got to join this group. Every year we would keep track of how many Trick or Treaters we got! Sometimes we would get over 400 kids! Our family was so close at one time I can only hope and pray that I can try to find that with my family.

I miss all of those times that we would just hang out! Once my Nana passed away everything changed and it is almost like we are not a family anymore. I still love this season and hope that I can reproduce events like this one. Or talk my aunt into starting up the old family tradition since we have young kids again. If only I can show Alan and Kamilo how much fun Holidays can be with large families. The mexican tradition is not quite the same, but who knows maybe I can reproduce the good times of my old family.

Kamilo is growing up so fast! He is so stubborn and wants to be independent. He wants to eat by himself, he wants to hold his own bottle, he wants to move around, he has even decided he does not want to sleep with mom and dad anymore. Whatever happened to my little infant. Alan is such a good older brother .. and Eddie is such a great Father!! I am so very blessed to have my own family.