Hannon Halloween

Like other holidays, Dad always helped make Halloween fun in our home growing up. I have lots of fun memories of up all sitting around the table as we took turns deciding what kind of nose or mouth we should carve into the pumpkin. Dad would scoop out the gooey insides, of course saving the seeds for roasting, and carve funny or scary faces as dictated. We would adorn the windows and porch with festive decorations. I remember one time making tombstones and legs out of old pants, shoes and some two-by-fours sticking up out of the ground. Mom would usually take us trick-or-treating, while Dad stayed home to hand out candy. He was a kid at heart and loved playing spooky sounds on his karaoke machine as he spoke into the microphone to scare the bigger kids. Sometimes he would dress up and pretend he was a dummy sitting in the rocking chair until some poor, unsuspecting trick-or-treater was on the porch and then would scare them - always in a nice way though. After we were home, Mom and Dad would look through all of out candy to make sure it was safe. Dad would always pick out a nice piece of chocolate "to make sure it wasn't poisoned" and scarf it down! I sure do miss his silly antics!