LARRY: Thanks for visiting. Each Halloween John and I would dress up for neighborhood parties after we had gone around the block with the boys. One year we were trees with a clothes line between us with clothes (we won best for originality) I wish I had that photo.

CHARLES: These were original Hawaiian clothes and leis from our trip to Hawaii for the NAR convention in '78 We were reminiscing our fabulous trip. We actually went back in 1984 with the boys and my parents. Hawaii a favorite place of ours. I can still smell those plumeria bushes.

JENNY: We love Halloween. I would actually make a scary room (the breezeway)with music and ghosts and skeletons that the children would pass through to get their candy. I would be dressed in costume myself.  We had great neighbors that did the same so our street became the scary street.

MATT: I agree, Haloween can be a fun holiday.

ED: Good point, especially if you purchased your favorites. My favorites have always been, Snickers and kitkats

DEBI: Having fun and dressing up for Halloween is just one of the many ways we keep young as the birthdays keep coming.

KATHY: Halloween has always been a favorite holiday for me  even when I was teaching we would celebrate Halloween in the classroom with making our own costumes (5th graders had clever ideas) and having a party

SHARON:Thanks for your sweet comment. I wanted us to look authentic. I am so glad we went back and took my parent for their 40th anniversary, so many said why don't you wait for their 50th and I said no we are going now why everyone is in good health. I am so glad we went because my Dad died unexpectedly on June 10 1986. 2 years later. We need to enjoy life now, this day, we never know what tomorrow will bring.

MARK: Thanks for commenting. Jerry Cahee loves Halloween as much as I do/  We always had fun at his neighborhood parties. and I do remember that coffin he built one year and laid inside to frighten the trick or treaters.

Dick and Dixie: It is true. We see our older son in SC with our grandsons  (3 and 5 ) dressing up with their Daddy and Mommy, as we had done for many years as our sons were going up . Our love of Halloween is being carried on as a family tradition.

DEBRA: Thanks for your compliment. I have to admit I miss doing it too. If I lived closer to my grandsons I would definitely dress up again.

JANE: We were joined together as they say in marriage vows 2 as one. Happily after the awards were presented we were unroped and could enjoy the party as individual trees, Actually the clothes line stayed attached to John, since he was tall enough to let it just hang down. We were awarded the funniest and the most creative.