How much fun is this?! My Halloween Smilebox slideshow is featured on the Smilebox blog.

Check it out. I love the other two creations featured on the post, too. There is so much you can do with Smilebox! And it’s a piece of cake.

Make that candy corn.

Leave it to Smilebox to come up with this fun Halloween slide show that reminds me a bit of walking into the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland!

Here are some of our family’s favorite Halloween memories. Hope you make plenty of wonderful memories with your kids today and tomorrow! Happy Halloween!

P.S. Want to create your own slideshows? It’s easy! (You can even do it while grabbing that mini Snickers bar from your kid’s trick-or-treat bag… Check out all of these fun designs.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

It’s time to take a clear-eyed look at what some perverts rather creepy folks are thinking when they look at a middle school girl in a sexy Halloween costume.

I use Feedjit, a service that lets me see what people search for (anonymously) on Google, Yahoo, etc. to reach my blog. Reading my Feedjit stats has been eye-opening, to say the least.

I’ve written about too-sexy Halloween costumes for young girls in the past. And let’s just say that everyone searching for “tween,” “teen,” “young girls” and “sexy Halloween costumes” isn’t necessarily a parent trying to protect their child. Far from it. Some of the search terms are incredibly creepy and obscene.

If these guys are looking for this stuff on the Web, you can bet a certain percentage of them are keeping an eye out for young girls who are dressed like this in real life, too. If you’re talking with your teen or tween daughter about appropriate costumes, show her this post.

Have you seen the amazing Halloween fireworks at Disneyland? Our family got to see then when we were invited there for a parenting-bloggers tour, and I have to say, we were blown away by the display, the music, and the special added touches that made our orange-and-black-striped socks go up and down. Check out the video.

And stay tuned, because I’m going to be sharing a special announcement from Mrs. Claus and Disneyland (now there’s a good combo!) in the next week. Here’s a little tease from Mrs. Claus from when we visited recently…

But wait! That’s not all the fun we had. The wonderful young man who plays Ragtime on Main Street, Alan Thompson Jr., invited Matt to play “Maple Leaf Rag” on the way-cool Ragtime piano, right there on Main Street! Lucky for me, I had my Flip camera ready to roll.

And what trip to Disneyland is complete without a ride on the trolly? What a great way to see Main Street all decked out for Halloween.

Here’s a video that Disneyland put together to show just some of the fun we parenting bloggers had that day. It sure got us in the Halloween spirit!

A little something from the Sena family to get you in the Halloween spirit…

Visit my Reviews Blog to learn about all the fun stuff Mickey has in store for little trick-or-treaters. It's spooky (but not scary) fun! Got older kids who want to get SCARED? Send 'em to Ghost Galaxy…

Happy Halloween! I hope you're looking forward to a fun day — and a spooky evening — with your kids.

While you're busy getting those costumes and bags (and bags!) of candy ready, make sure you're up to speed on Halloween safety tips, too.

It's easy. Just click here and scroll down the page a bit to hear my tips on the Rob & Joss show on Froggy 92.9 in Sonoma, California.

Happy Halloween!

If you’re an Obama supporter and you’re looking to light up the night in a show of Glowbama support on Friday, check out Yes We Carve, a fun site created to promote the Obama campaign with some Halloween fun.

You’ll find stencils, plenty of cool photos, contests, and more. Ready to create your Barack O’ Lantern? Head on over and grab change by the stem. (OK, we’ll stop with the pun-kins now.)

I still remember seeing her when my now-seventh-grade son was in first grade: the 6-year-old girl in the midriff-baring Britney Spears Halloween costume, tossing her hair and trying to give off a decidedly sexy-teen vibe.

She was SIX. And I remember thinking to myself, even then: "This girl will be in trouble someday."

Never mind that the elementary school allowed her to strut her stuff in the school Halloween parade, in obvious violation of the stated Halloween dress code. Where were this girl's parents? And what were they thinking?

In today's Los Angeles Times, Melissa Healy's article, Sexy Halloween Costumes… For Little Girls? talks about titillating
Halloween outfits being marketed to kids. It's a trend that's picking up even more steam this year, apparently.

What's a parent to do? Check out the article and tell us what you think.

Photos: halloweencostumes4U.com