Ten Halloween Memories + Energy Drink Giveaway


Hope everyone is having a fantastic Halloween! In honor of the holiday, I have decided to list ten memories from Halloween and offer a giveaway. Sound fun? I thought so!

1.  Dressing up. Running around in my costume days before Halloween. Wishing the day would hurry up and end so I could put on my costume. Hating the curls and face make-up required for costumes.  Oh - and those Disney store costumes that were cheaply made (yet expensive), scratchy, uncomfortable, and see through. Soooo many costume memories!

My most memorable costumes were: pumpkin (age 2), Minnie Mouse (age 5), Belle (age 7), a 50s girl with a handmade poodle skirt (age 15), and Lady Guinevere with a handmade dress (age 20).

2. Watching Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the Charlie Brown Halloween special.

3. Dumping all of my candy on the floor and sorting by color and type. (If there were 5 skittles that included 2 purple and 3 green, I had to eat one of the green next to even out the numbers.)

4.My parents eating my candy and making me mad in the days following Halloween…

5. Trying to hit as many houses as possible before my parents forced me to come home. I could only be out from 6-9, and the faster I walked the more houses I could visit, and the more candy I received. Unfortunately I had parents and a much younger brother trailing behind…

6. Carving the pumpkin. Always a momentous occasion.

7. Picking out the pumpkin. It had to be the biggest, prettiest pumpkin at the store or pumpkin patch.

8. The picture. There is nothing quite as irritating as having your picture taken in your costume prior to being allowed to go trick or treating.  Eating dinner was also annoying. Can't we just go??!?!

9. As I got older, loud, fraternity parties in which the girls came in … less and all of the drinking. And the biggest haunted maze ever. It was totally not my thing.

10. Fondue night with friends. Celebrating without going out. Relaxing and fun with delicious food. It was a shame that had to end.

*11. And finally … to our current tradition of going out to eat somewhere new on Halloween, somewhere we have never been before. This is finally some small part of Halloween I can look forward to without a candy sugar high, dressing up like a prostitute, or worrying about my lack of kids.

GIVEAWAY


Now I have a giveaway for all of you sleep-deprived parents, crazy partiers, and anyone who plans to stay awake all night in the near future and will need a boost of energy at some point the following day. (Even better if you support breast cancer awareness! – Don't you just love the pink color? And the flavor, strawberry lemonade, is to die for!)

Enter the rafflecopter below for your chance to win one of the two shots I have as well as some candy. After all, you can't celebrate Halloween without candy… :)

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** This giveaway is not sponsored by anyone, and the products were purchased with my own money. All opinions are my own.

14 comments:

  1. So excited to take my little 18 month old "zebra" trick or treating this year!

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  2. Fondue night sounds like such fun. This is one thing I haven't done at home yet...and it is sooo easy to pull off.

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  3. I went to Target yesterday and got 27 bags of candy for free using coupons.

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    1. Oh my goodness. What are you going to do with all of that candy? I definitely took advantage of deals after Halloween in preparation for Christmas, but I didn't get nearly that much candy for so little cost! It sounds like you really know how to make your money go far! :)

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  4. My dad has always made a huge Haunted House since I was a kid!

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    1. Did you help? That sounds like so much fun!

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  5. We didn't do much for Halloween this year since we just moved. Our dogs loved running to the door to greet the trick or treaters though. :)

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    1. There's always next year… But I imagine it's fun to just stay in some years anyway. :)

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  6. Hocus Pocus & The Great Pumpkin were always my favorite things about Halloween growing up (aside from all the candy going trick or treating of course). I love the fact that I have both of those movies now so my kids watch them a gazillion times every year during this time.

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    1. It's so much fun passing down traditions that we did as kids to our own. :)

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  7. well this Halloween I only passed out candy, usually I get dressed up but wasn't feeling it this year.. so my one of my daughters and her little baby girl came over to help me to pass out candy

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