Fabulous Fall

Farmstead Corn Maze & Pumpkin Festival

Exploring: Lake Lowell

Exploring: Boise Greenbelt

Exploring: Hulls Gulch, foothills

Daddy's favorite Cornhusker fan (then and now).

 Halloween

This cat likes to play in the puddles.

On our way to Boo at the Zoo.

Not your typical pumpkin, ladybug, bumble bee kind of baby

Scout was born just a few days before Halloween last year so this was our first official Halloween. We decided to brave the crowds on the historical Harrison Blvd in downtown Boise, and I'm glad we did. The colorful tree-lined street was gorgeous as always, and it was so fun to see all of the clever costumes and decorations, and everyone was so friendly. A lot of people confused Scout as a koala bear or raccoon, but that's all right. She was a lemur sillies, and the cutest lemur around! Ok, the only lemur, but still!

Ghost Rider. Loved it. Scout, on the other hand, wasn't so sure.

Have you ever wanted to cuddle a lemur more in your life?

What I want to know is who carved all of these pumpkins?

All in all, it was a nice Halloween. Because our townhome is gated in, we never get any trick-or-treaters so we've learned to not buy any candy...which is nice because then we don't eat it all ourselves and suffer the next-day regrets. Instead, we swapped the Halloween candy regrets for chocolate chip cookie regrets.

Saturday we get to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day with our British family where I'm sure we'll consume all sorts of tasty regrets.

Adults Playing Dress-up

Ok, so we were lame and didn't dress up this year. In fact, we didn't do much of anything. Instead, we stayed home, made a roast, watched a silly...I mean "scary" movie on TV (Vacancy, with Luke Wilson & Kate Beckinsale), and ate Halloween candy that was intended for the trick-or-treaters who never showed.

However, we haven't always been this boring. And, it just so happens that I have photo proof. Please enjoy the Nelsons of Halloweens past...


Eric's brother, Peter's, classic disco costume of '05. One of my favorites. You can't see it in the picture, but he wore a very snug maroon 3-piece polyester suit.



Eric's mum. I think Halloween might be one of Mary's favorite holidays, and she always makes an impressive showing.



Ok, so these costumes weren't overly creative, but Eric's made us stare and laugh nonetheless.






The Viking Helga (also known as sis-in-law Allison) & white trash Stevie P (Eric's dad)









Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh!

Don't worry, our dressing up years aren't over yet. We may have had a lapse in judgement this year, but there's always next year!

Cute, eh?

I got to go trick-or-treating with some of my cutie patootie nieces and nephews. Some of them are starting to grow out of the trick-or-treating stage...It's a little sad. Why do we have to grow up?

"Trick-or-treat!"