Getting into the Halloween spirit

I'm finally getting into the Halloween spirit. I wasn't sure if I was going to celebrate this year considering we hardly get any children coming to our door for trick-or-treating and there was no mention of a costume party to attend to as of a week or so ago. But we passed this gorgeous display of pumpkins outside of Whole Foods and decided it was time to celebrate Halloween :) We have a pumpkin all ready to carve sometime this week and I'm wondering if I should bake pumpkin scones or a pumpkin cheesecake with the leftover filling. Let the fall baking season begin!

The candy corn addition is definitely the hubby's cravings. I'm not so big on candy, but year after year he loves to pick-up a bag of this stuff at the grocery store check-out and devour it as soon as he gets home. I think this is his third bag this month haha He blames years of being deprived of this seasonal candy back in Holland... Of course I sneak in 1 or 2 candy corns myself ;) But I get such a sugar rush that I undoubtedly have my candy corn eating guilt, all the while the hubby is bouncing off the walls.

So for our actual Halloween plans next Sunday, we plan to attend a costume party of one of my co-workers. I tried to think of a "couple's costume", however, that isn't going to happen. We browsed through the costume store last night and the hubby excitedly found his so I'm left to come-up with something else. But that's ok, I definitely have something else in mind and I have already bought some of the items needed to assemble it. My costume requires unpacking my sewing machine though. It's nothing difficult that needs to be sewn, but since I only seem to break-out that machine during Halloween it is a yearly review on how to use it! The costume making process is to be continued...