It’s getting to be about that time. SpOoKy season. I know it’s only September, but when you are a Halloween lover like me, September 1 is game on for Halloween. It’s such a fun time of year!

Now, let me get this straight, though. I love Halloween, yes. I love black cats, old batty witches with pointy noses, scary pumpkins, and bony skeletons. But I do not love haunted houses, fields of screams, or scary movies that make you jump out of your skin. “Hocus Pocus” and “Hubie Halloween” are more my speed. These are my two favorite Halloween movies. If you have never seen “Hubie Halloween” on Netflix, you have to watch it! Oh, my goodness, it’s so good! Hubie’s momma’s shirts are the BEST part of the movie.

I love the Halloween lights, candies, carving pumpkins, and dressing up for Halloween. It’s the one time of year you can be anyone you want to be, and it’s so fun! I love everything about Halloween except for the “scare you out of your pants stuff.” (NO, thank you.)

My love for this time of year has rubbed off on our daughter, Kenzy. She gets so excited for spooky season. When she was three and a half, she kept seeing Halloween lights in the car at night and thought they were Christmas lights. She would yell, “Miss Miss Lights!” We told her they weren’t Christmas lights but that some people decorate for Halloween. My husband worked third shift at the time, driving around leak detecting in Williamsport during the week. He saw how excited our daughter got when she saw these Halloween houses all lit up. So, each week, he would come home and say he found a new house that we had to go show Kenz some evening. This turned into a whole thing that we never expected.

This is where the love for Halloween started with our three-year-old little girl, and the tradition continues each year when we drive around and hunt for Halloween houses. Closer to Halloween, I’ll share some neat spots we have found over the years and continue to go visit each Halloween season. Kenzy still gets just as excited as she did at three years old.

In August, Kenzy had an Amazon gift card and bought all these Halloween lights for in her bedroom. The following week, we went to Rust and Shine because she wanted to buy a light-up jack-o’lantern for her room. She found one and got a candy corn flicker light, too. I just thought it was the sweetest thing that at nine years old, she didn’t want to buy toys; she just wanted to buy stuff to make her room look “Halloween-y.” This time of year is just fun to be able to do things like this.

In the next few weeks, I’ll share things all fall & Halloween, including recipes and stories to share. I just can’t get enough of this time of year! Can you?

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients:
• 1 can crescent rolls
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 4 tbsp light brown sugar
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

ICING:
• 3 ounces cream cheese softened
• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter melted
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-3 tbsp milk; 3 tbsp will make it runnier, 1 tbsp will make it more like frosting

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9” pie pan with cooking spray.

Unroll crescent roll dough. Firmly press perforations to seal, making it one big sheet.

Spread pumpkin evenly over the dough. Evenly sprinkle brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice over the pumpkin puree.

Starting on the short side of the rectangle, roll the dough up into a log. Cut the roll into about 8-9 pieces and place into a baking dish.

Bake for 20 to 22 minutes, until turning lightly golden at the edges.

Let it cool in pan for 10 minutes.