As far as Christmas is concerned, we've scaled WAY back in terms of what we spend on our parents!! In years past, it wouldn't be hard for us to spend $150-200 on each of them!! However, last year we cut it back to about $125 each, and this year, we're hoping to get it to or a little under $100! I'm having a Home & Garden Party this weekend, and will shop for my mom and MIL using what freebies & 1/2 priced items I get for them. I think for Brian and I, we both watched our parents sacrifice so that we could have better, and now we're in a position to give back a little, and we enjoy it a lot. Anyway....since we've had kids, we've stayed home on the holidays, and instead have Christmas with our family's the weekend before Christmas. The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we go to a Christmas tree farm, and we meet Brian's entire family out there. It's a family tradition. We pick out a tree, cut it down, and go back to the lodge for food, cocoa, pointsettias, and the kids get to sit on Santa & Mrs. Claus's laps!! I got some super cute pictures of them last year!!
For Thanksgiving, again we stay at home. Although last year, Brian's dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we all went to my SIL's for Thanksgiving. This year, it appears his cancer is back (had a biopsy on Tuesday), so I'm not sure what we'll be doing.
Halloween: We go pick pumpkins & apples, but the apple crops are WAY down around here, because of that hard freeze we got in April. I know NONE of our apple trees produced any apples after the freeze. We'll take the kids trick or treating, etc. We usually spend about $25-30 on costumes, depending on what they want to be, etc.
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