It's so hard to believe that it is already Halloween. I cannot believe how fast this past year has gone! It's hard to imagine that Chris and I weren't even engaged at this point last year. We were close though!
Our two year dating and one year engagement anniversary is on November 4th, which is this coming Monday. It feels like I have known Chris for my entire life, and I honestly can't remember being single anymore. I was single a heck of a lot longer than I've been dating/engaged/married! I remember so many nights spent crying in my pillow, wondering if my Prince Charming was out there. For so long, I didn't believe he existed. I thought I'd turn into an old maid with twenty cats and eating a bunch of TV dinners.
But I was proven so wrong!
My life became much more complete when I went out with Chris for our first date on November 4th, 2011. On that day, I knew I had met my soul mate and the man I would spend the rest of my life with. On November 4th, 2012, it became official :)
This is only the second Halloween Chris and I have spent together. Last year, we carved pumpkins with some friends and dressed up to go to a local dance hall Halloween weekend. This year, we carved pumpkins for our date night and are dressing up to go to our cousins' house to hang out and eat chili while the kids go trick-or-treating. We haven't really set any traditions yet, besides carving pumpkins at some point and dressing up to do something. It makes me really excited, though, to come up with traditions for our little family.
I love the fact that we're spending the evening with family, especially since this is the first Halloween for our niece (she's actually Chris's cousin's daughter, but we're referred to as Aunt Taryn and Uncle Chris, so I consider her my niece (: ). My family used to go to a Halloween get-together with my cousins and their family, and I have so many great memories of that.
Chris and I volunteered last night at our church's Fall Family Fest. They use the youth building's parking lot to bring in a ton of inflatables and games for the kids in the community to come and have good, clean, non-scary fun. Our task was to manage the Noah's Ark inflatable that was a jump-house for the pre-schoolers. It was so sweet to see so many little ones dressed up in their cute costumes and have a blast while jumping around and being kids. It was also such a joy to see their moms and dads take such delight in watching their children laugh and play. It makes me so excited to one day be like that with our kids; to dress them up, to watch them play, to make sweet memories with them that, I hope, they remember for the rest of their lives.
I think about the different traditions I want to have with our family. I want to make Halloween a big deal; not because it's Halloween, but because I think it's an amazing opportunity to have some family-time and create so many memories with each other, especially when we have young kids. I want to make the picking out of the costumes and the searching for the perfect pumpkin a huge deal, something that we do as a family. I want the trick-or-treating and then eating the candy while watching Charlie Brown something they look forward to every year. I want to make this a sweet opportunity to pour into our kids for as long as we can. I know they will eventually find it all 'un-cool' and want to spend time with their friends instead. Thank goodness that's a looong ways away though :)
It may be two or three more Halloweens before we have a child to dress up and make traditions with. Just means two or three more Halloweens I get to spend with my love and having 'adult' traditions :) I'm excited about our costume for tonight, and I can't wait to post pictures of it!
Oh, I sure do enjoy this time of year!
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