Mmmmm grapes

I love Fall.  I love how the leaves change, how the weather is chilly at night and warm during the day, how you can bundle up on the couch with a blanket and feel all cozy, and how you can be driving along in the Yakima Valley and suddenly smell grapes.  It is the best smell.  It is not the best smell when they are harvesting hops right next to the vineyard and you get a mix of delightful grapes and pungent hops.  I am used to the smell of hops, but it is always shocking when you take in a deep breath expecting to smell grapes and get hops as well.  For those of you who have never smelled hops, it is a bitter smell that overwhelms and lingers.  

Cassadie and Jarod dressed as a witch and a vampire for Halloween this year.  Cassadie decided that this would be her last year to go Trick-or-Treating.  Jarod will never go alone, so we will have to either find someone for him to go with, or this was his last year also. 

We died Jarod's hair black...he loved it.  I also had to draw on some eyebrows since his are nonexistent.  Look at the way he's standing...he felt pretty cool.

Sometimes I think I get a little carried away with Cassadie's costumes and makeup.  It's the only time she actually likes to look like a girl.  Aren't the socks cute...Mom got those for her.

We had lots of fun.  They got too much candy, as usual.  Cassadie just found her bag from last year the other day, and it was still half full.  She doesn't really eat candy, but she hordes it, so she ends up with candy a year later in some bag at the back of her closet.  It happens every Halloween, Easter, and Valentine's Day.  The lesson here is this:  don't get my daughter candy.