Growing up on Victor Drive, Halloween was a fun time. We dressed like hobos or some other easy costume and went “trick or treating”. Walking around those tree-lined blocks, we’d gather homemade popcorn balls wrapped in cellophane, hand-dipped cinnamon redhot apples or caramel apples…and lots of candy bars. We never ventured too far from home. It was safe because these were our friends and neighbors…in a different time and place.
As our children were growing up, we’d often get together with my husband’s sister and her family for Halloween. We’d have a Mexican fiesta and then go “trick or treating”. Fun memories…
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| Eating candy in a little house on Rhea Avenue many years ago… I’m sure I brushed their teeth! 😉 |
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| I love those chubby little cheeks! |
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| My youngest (left), age 5, and two of his cousins on Halloween in Memphis years ago... |
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| Justin and his three cousins “trick or treating” in Memphis. |
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Twenty-five years ago! My baby boy’s kindergarten party at Halloween... |
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| My first grandchild dressed in a “skunk” costume my daughter made! The costume made the rounds through the years. |
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| Awww, Mom! That’s enough pictures! Let’s go get some candy! |
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| Now, baby sister was the skunk! |
| All these years later and my baby girl still likes dressing up for Halloween! |
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| I was “Grumpy” here but wasn’t too keen on keeping the beard on! Check out my grandson’s “peregrine falcon” costume that my daughter created (totally her creation)! My grandson was studying birds at the time and that was what he wanted! |
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| I have several really cute photos of when my oldest two were young at Halloween but can’t seem to find those right now. I’ll add them when I find them. I’m in the midst of organizing photo albums after many years…sound familiar to anyone else out there?! |