Thirty-One Loves of October - Family Friendly Movies

Thirty-One Loves of October: Day 16

Family Friendly Halloween Movies:

Addams Family

Monster House

Beetlejuice

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Rise of the Guardians - it's slighty spooky

Casper

Twitches

Ghostbusters

Pratical Magic

Hocus Pocus

Frankenweenie

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

The Little Vampire

The Witches

Harry Potter

Halloweentown franchise

Hotel Transylvania

Monsters Inc & University

Paranorman

Monsters vs Aliens

Winnie the Pooh

          Boo to You too! Winnie the Pooh

          Pooh's Heffalump Halloween

Tom & Jerry Tricks and Treats

Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Were Rabbit

Caroline

Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktacular

Goosebumps (some of those can be super scary for little ones)

Corpse Bride

Scared Shrekless

Scooby Doo

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Spooky Buddies

I have supplied you with enough movies to last everyday of the month... too bad we are 1/2 through already. Enjoy your family friendly movies!

Express Yourself - Halloween Costumes

Express Yourself is a weekly Meme for us to get to know you better. Jackie and I enjoy doing this every week and we hope you do too. To get more information about EYM, click here

This week is Halloween themed: What is your favorite Halloween costume ever (yes, you've had to have worn it)?

I've had many...

I was a Dark Angel a few years ago...

Alex the bee, Me the Dark Angel, Lani the Butterfly, Ky is Pikachu, Gabe from some video game I can't remember (bad mom, I know) and J the Skeleton Pirate. ARG!

I was a Mime last year...

Gabe the Zombie Slayer, Lani - Minnie Mouse (Scared of dad), Me the Mime, Alexis the Rock Chick, Justin the Scarecrow, and Kylar - Scream

And a Day of the Dead Zombie Head this year...

 

 




My family were all zombies but I put a twist to my own cause I wasn't about to put that gross fake blood on my face and all of the glue. I did all the faux slash marks, coloring, etc to the fam and my own facial art work. Lani is absent cause we knew she wouldn't like going to a zombie themed house warming Halloween party. But she is going a Ladybug this year.

 Thirty-One Loves of October:
Days 14 and 15:
SyFy's 31 Days of Halloween
and AMC's FearFest

Celebrate the Weekend

TGIF, TGIF! I could ask for anything more than it being a Friday! Too excited beyond words!! Thanks to VikLit for giving us this outlet to express our celebrations!

This weekend we have lots planned.

Zombie themed party tomorrow. The boys in the house are going as the classic zombie. The girls are going as Day of the Dead Spanish zombie heads.

Sunday Jackie and some other family members are coming over to make wreaths and then later that day my mother-in-law is taking the kids to some military families Halloween Haunted park.

I was not able to blog yesterday so I'm posting 4 things for my Thirty-One Loves of October.
Caramel Apple Suckers - YUM, these suckers are the best this time of year!
Orange - my second favorite color!
Hay rides - I love taking spooky hay rides through the woods or down a chilling road. Especially with a bunch of friends!
The Walking Dead - We have been waiting, what seems like FOREVER!, for this show to come back into our homes. My whole family gets all excited. We have watched all the trailers, the webisodes, the behind the scenes, etc. I have read the comics and the novel. We are huge fans!! Cannot wait for Sunday.

Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend!

Thirty-One Loves of October: Witches & TV

(Credit: Wikipedia)

American Horror Story: Coven is the upcoming third season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story. It is set to premiere on October 9, 2013, and conclude in January 2014.

It's been around 300 years since the Salem witch trials. Those who remain are almost extinct and in danger again. A school has opened in New Orleans to teach protection to the young. The long-absent Supreme, Fiona, arrives to also protect the coven and their secrets. Fiona's daughter, Cordelia, teaches at the school. The themes include witches, witch hunts, incest, minorities, slavery, mothers and daughters, and witchcraft versus voodoo. This season will be set in modern day and the 1830s.

Main cast

• Sarah Paulson as Cordelia Foxx
• Taissa Farmiga as Zoe Benson
• Frances Conroy as Myrtle Snow
• Evan Peters as Kyle Spencer
• Lily Rabe as Misty Day
• Emma Roberts as Madison Montgomery
• Denis O'Hare as Spalding
• Kathy Bates as Delphine LaLaurie
• Jessica Lange as Fiona Goode
  

Recurring cast

• Robin Bartlett
• Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau
• Alexandra Breckenridge
• Jamie Brewer as Nan
• Grey Damon
• Alexander Dreymon as Luke Ramsey
• James DuMont
• Christine Ebersole
• Josh Hamilton as Hank Foxx
• Danny Huston
• Leslie Jordan
• Patti LuPone as Joan Ramsey
• Gabourey Sidibe as Queenie
• Mare Winningham

Are you going to stay up tonight to watch it?! I hope so, I would love to hear what you think on the matter.

Another new witchy show I started to watch: Witches of East End. I'm not too sure what I think of it so far. It sort of reminds me of Charmed but I'm not going to give it the axe just yet. I'll keep watching just because new-comer, Cillian (aka Daniel DiTomasso and in the books it was spelled with a K if I remember correctly), the mysterious bad boy, is the hottest thing that has hit television in the a while.

Witches! One reason I love October and the Witching season!

Spooktoberfest Reminder and Thirty-One Loves of Oct

2013 Requirements:

1. Follow us - Dani and Jax, if you don’t already. We love meeting new bloggers, and we do follow back.

2. Your Flash Fiction piece should be between 300 - 500 words. It can be scary, funny, action-packed, romantic, or whatever you choose. Just let your creativity flow!

3. You must choose 3 of the 6  words listed below to include in your flash fiction piece…

WRETCH (ED)

IMPEDING

ALIEN (S)

SKELETON (S)

POTION (S)

MASK (S)

4.  Highlight those 3 words in your story so we can find them.

5. Choose at least 1 of the 4 pictures below to BE THE SETTING for your flash fiction piece. Go here to find the pictures.

6. Post your piece any day from Friday Oct 25th thru Monday, Oct. 28th.

7. It’s a blog hop, so… hop around to other participating blogs and leave some awesome comments.

8. We'll announce the winners on Thurs Oct. 31, 2013 - Halloween! Jackie and I will each choose a winner. You read that right – two winners!
9. Have fun!!!

Side note - not required: If you have a twitter account and have the extra time - go ahead and send out a tweet letting us know you have posted your submission (this step is very helpful for us). Below is our @ accounts and the hashtag.

@JackieFel

@danibertrand

#Spooktoberfest

PRIZES: A grab bag (more like a box of stuff) and candy. The winners will get the biggest bags we can find of their favorite candy along with some spookified items.

Oh, and yes, this blogfest is international. So what are you ghouls waiting for? Sign up using the Linky Thing below and spread the word!

And share, share, share!

Thirty-One Loves of October
Day 8: Halloween Decorations

I just love all of the Halloween decor I see every where. It makes the season all that more special for me. I love Halloween and love the spirit about it. I love seeing the kids in the neighborhood look at the real looking mummy in my window and hear their murmurs when they ride their bikes by. It puts a smile on my face. Or hearing my own kids "ooh" and "aah" over other people's decorations when drive by. It means that the hard work of decorating paid off.

Opening One-liners and Scary Movies

Express Yourself is a weekly Meme co-hosted by Jackie @Bouquet of Books and yours truly. Each week we ask you to answer a question or list something.

This week is no different:

Share some first line book openers you adore.

*They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.* Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

I hope my love for this opener doesn't offend anyone, especially since it's a great start to this amazing book. It told an amazing story. Doesn't that one line just make you wonder what the book is about. It could be about so many things and in so many different times. You have to read it to find out.

Thirty-One Loves of October:

Day 7: Scary Movies!

Must of you know I love scary movies. Now they all don't have to be a blockbuster, and lets face it, most aren't but they are my favorites. Scary, spooky, sci-fi, paranormal, gory, you name it, I love it. I want to be scared and grossed out.

Dawn of the Dead

28 Days Later

28 Weeks Later

The Collector

The Collection

The Fourth Kind

Paranormal Activit(ies)

30 Days of Night

Let Me In

Texas Chainsaw Mass(es)

Friday the 13th(s)

Nightmare on Elm Street

and the list could go on and on.

Any favorite opening one-liners in a book? What's your favorite scary movie?

Muahahahhahaha!

Celebrating and Dancing - Ouch!

It's Friday, Jump on it, jump on it, *dance, dance, dance, dance, Jersey fist pump, hip bump, chest bump* - wait... ouch! That one hurt. Let me catch my breath...

Yeah I'm in that kind of a mood and have no freakin idea why! Just go with it.

As always VikLit is letting us celebrate our weeks little thrills, so lets begin...

• I have Instagram and my son talked me in to doing the October challenge #octogram. So far, so good. Today's picture... #scarecrow  Now there are two #octograms going on right now. If you have Instagram and want to partake, do a search in Instagram for #octogram and look for the one with the jack-o-lantern face. That's the one I'm doing!! You can tag me @danibertrand
• I'm also doing something October inspired this month on my blog: Thirty-One Loves of October. Today I'm going to share 3 since I don't blog on Saturdays and Sundays, and this is an everyday shoutout to my 31 things I love about October.
• Beautiful Skies - October has some of the most spectacular sunrises and sunsets and the most wonderful color palettes painted in the sky.
• Pumpkin carvings - I love seeing all of the creative carvings people come up with and how different they all are. Some people are just so talented!
• Candles - This is my favorite time of year to buy candles. Some of the best fragrances are during the Autumn season. Pumpkin spice, vanilla spice, leaves, pumpkin pie, etc. I try to stock up for the whole year. Yankee Candle, Gold Canyon or Bath and Body have some of my favorites.
• My little girl is turning 4 on Sunday!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!