Halloween Winter Bazaar

Scribbit is hosting a winter bazaar here is what she is doing....

There's going to be a new weekly feature here at Scribbit starting Wednesday October 3rd: The Winter Bazaar.

It can get pretty quiet up here you know--all that snow and darkness and hibernation--so each Wednesday from October through March I will post activities, decorations, games, recipes and crafts centered around a monthly theme and I've invited other blogs to participate. These ideas could be for children or adults, the only requirement is that they fit the seasonal topics:

* October - Halloween

* November - Thanksgiving Day or autumn

* December - Christmas or Hanukkah

* January - the new year or winter in general

* February - Valentine's Day or love

* March - Easter or spring

To participate, publish a post describing an activity on the monthly theme then come here to Scribbit and leave the permalink to the post (not the main blog URL) in the comments section of my Winter Bazaar post. I've chosen to do it this way so that participants have room to describe their ideas and promote their post and to make things even more fun, for this first month I'm offering a prize to a random participant. Each time someone leaves a link to their own Winter Bazaar idea (if they're a blogger) or leaves a comment (if they're a reader) their name goes into the pot, up to once a week. More on the prize next week.

Since I am also now a fellow Alaskan I decided to participate. I will try to participate as much as possible.

My first Halloween favorites post is about one of the things our kids really enjoyed doing in October before Halloween back in Portland. That would be our trip to the pumpkin patch to choose those special pumpkins to have outside on our porch.

We would usually go out about a week or two before Halloween and each kid got to pick out a pumpkin of their choice. The only rule was that they had to be able to carry it themselves since it was "their" pumpkin.

Generally Izzak would find the biggest pumpkin he could lift and just barely make it back to the stands to buy them.

Joshua generally was very picky and takes a long time trying to find the perfect pumpkin.

The pictures in this post we had gotten started kind of late so a lot of the pumpkins were starting to go bad and that was making Kenzie a little grossed out. She likes little pumpkins just big enough to carve but still little.

Madison well she wasn't to picky but took forever, well because Madison lives on Madison time and takes forever to do anything usually it took so long just because she was walking around not looking at the pumpkins to begin with.

Of course she usually was able to talk Daddy into carrying her pumpkin because he just really wanted to get it done with!

Of course the problem is that we can't do this anymore since Ketchikan doesn't have pumpkin patches. I suppose we will have to resort buying our pumpkins at from the grocery store now instead. :(