I hope everyone had a great Halloween! I spent it casually, hanging out with my in-laws, having pizza, and handing out candy to little children (I mostly ate it though). As I've gotten older, I never got into the whole Halloween scene. What I mean by that is: I was never the type of person in college to dress up and go hang out a bar. Not my thing! I like to keep Halloween strictly as a childhood memory. This year brought me back to a special Halloween. This year was the 20 year anniversary of the big Halloween snow storm of 1991. I was 2 years old and my Mom, Dad, Sister, and I lived in Chaska, MN at the time. I was too young to remember, but we have bins and bins of home videos (I am so grateful that my parents took home-videos of us all the time when we were younger!) and one of our videos is of Halloween in 1991. My mom made pumpkin costumes for my older sister and I and my dad took us out in the snowy blizzard, and pulled us on a sled to go trick-or-treating. We were SOOOO bundled up with hats, scarves, snow suits (thanks mom) that we could hardly see anything. Thankfully we had our Dad to pull us around. What a Dad! Thinking back to that Halloween today literally made me cry. I can't believe that was 20 years ago. Time really does go by so fast! I am so happy that my parents captured many of these special moments of my childhood on video so that I can always go back and watch what life was like back when I was little. I will definitely do this someday for my children because one of my family's favorite things to do is sit together and watch our home-videos. Thanks Mom and Dad, for capturing childhood moments that I would not know or remember if you hadn't caught them on film! You don't know how much it means to me. Love You!
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1991 Halloween Blizzard Snow Fall Totals
I LOVE this post! This was such a memorable Halloween for me.. I remember it vividly!Those pumpkin costumes were hilarious! Great shout out to our awesome parents!
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I'm SMILING :) I have this moment on video, but I don't have the pictures of you in the snow. :( I have looked "high and low" !
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you remember these moments and treasure them as I have.
Poor Olivia , I didn't even get a picture of her this year :( Bad Mamma !!!
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I think we should watch the video this weekend! The days when it was just us 4 and dad had his mustache!
ReplyDeleteI was just talking about this Halloween with John today! In 1991 I was in third grade and this was the first time I had experienced snow! We had just moved to WI from North Carolina. I remember being picked up from school early and my mom had bought me some boots...I had never had any before. We lived out in the country (where our cabin is now) and only made it to a couple of neighbors because the roads were getting bad. We were snowed in for 4 days! But of course we have this on home video as well:) My sister and my descriptions of the snow was priceless. Great post, great history, great memories:)
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