Pre-Halloween thoughts and some Halloween memories.

How quickly this year has gone by and here we are and it's already Halloween. I think it was back in August when we got in the mail the Costume Express catalog.  Trent and I came to the front door and there it was on our front door step.  Trent saw it and quickly picked it.  It was only August and here we were already faced with deciding on what Trent would be for Halloween...not much different from last year.  Yes, Trent has taken after me and my Type A personality.  Trent poured over the catalog for a few weeks and finally decided after A LOT of back and forth and just not being able to pull the trigger on being Darth Vader.  He really wants to be Darth Vader, but just can't do it for some reason.  Trent decided on Captain Rex, a Clone Trooper from Star Wars.  Trent rationalized his decision by saying that he already had Captain Rex's helmet and blaster gun, so it was a done deal.  I ordered it and it has been in the closet for at least a month and a half just waiting for Halloween.

This year at Trent's school they aren't allowed to wear costumes and I thought Trent would be a little upset about it, but it really hasn't bothered him.  They have told the kids they can't wear their costumes to school and Trent is fine with that.  I was a bit sad on Friday remembering all the fun years he had dressing up and showing off his costume in the costume parade.  There was a year, when he wasn't thrilled about parading around in his costume, but the other years were fun.  Here are Trent's past Halloween costumes.  He is such a cutie!

Trent was 2 months old at his first Halloween.

1year old - Race Car Driver.

2 years old - Buzz Lightyear.  Trent wore this costume to school because

his Blue's Clue costume would be too hot to wear at school.

Blue's Clue ready to go trick or treating.

3 years old - Peter Pan.  Trent loves the movie Peter Pan

and has watched it too many times to count.

3 years old - Captain Hook at CA Adventure's

Mickey's Trick or Treat.

4 years old - Optimus Prime Transformer

5 years old - Wolverine 

Finally...

It has been a long time coming, but we finally have a brand new dining room table, chairs and buffet.  When we moved into our house seven years ago, we were fortunate that Tim's parents wanted to buy some new furniture, so we were happy to take their furniture.  We were given a dining room table, 8 chairs, a beautiful hutch, coffee table, 2 end tables and a tv stand/cabinet.  I was so excited to get all these pieces that matched.  Tim and I had lived in apartments for 5 years with mix matched furniture, so it was so nice to have matching furniture.  Over the past few years we have started to replace that furniture with new furniture.  We are down to just the hutch and an end table.  I am not sure if I can part with the hutch just yet.

Tim and I started a tradition of buying furniture (or as Tim puts it capital goods) when we celebrated our first year wedding anniversary in Connecticut. We decided we needed a few things for our apartment and drove 3 hours to New Jersey to go to the closest Ikea.  We bought an entry table, a corner shelving unit and few other things for our apartment.  From that anniversary on we have tried to buy a piece of furniture (or again as Tim says a capital good).  We have been married 12 years and in those years we have bought a California King size bed, couches, coffee table, entertainment center and this past anniversary we just purchased (a few months late) a dining room table, chairs and buffet.  I am thankful to my handy husband for putting all these pieces together (Trent and I did help).  Our dining room looks great.  As I said before, I still can't bear to part with our hutch, so that is still in the room. We have a storage issue in our house, so the hutch is needed to store my teacups, china and other keepsakes. It's so fun to get new stuff.  Every time I walk in the dining room I admire it.

Our new dining room table.

The hutch against the wall...I can't get rid of it just yet.

Our new buffet.