What do you do on Labor Day weekend?

Camp?
Hike?
Cookout?
Miniature golf?

Those are all really fun things to do with a three day weekend, but not nearly as awesome as (cue thunder and maniacal laughter):

Decorating for Halloween!

Halloween. Our favorite holiday around here. A holiday all about fun and candy and jumping in leaves. It’s a holiday with out a moral, it’s a holiday where you can become anyone or anything, a time where Hubby and I can transform from mild mannered parents into Boris and Natasha.

*Note: I’d be Boris…I’m way too short to pull of Natasha.

Or my typically awesome and handsome husband can transform into amazingly sexy Severus Snape:

*Note…Mmmm…Snape…

Halloween…That time of the year when the leaves start to fall, a haze of wood smoke hangs in the air and pumpkin bread is shared with friends.  Halloween is, without a doubt, my favorite time of year. And if people think we’re a bit nuts to be hanging ghosts out in our trees two months before the holiday, so what! BB is only going to be a child once and the joy he gets out of turning our front  yard into a graveyard, painting jack-o-lanterns on windows, and re-discovering decorations that have been hidden away for a year is well worth the occasional eye roll or double take from strangers driving down our street. So what if it’s still close to a hundred degrees outside. Fall is coming and we’re ready to welcome it with open, skeletal arms.