“Scary movies start now until Christmas, that’s our tradition. Gotta watch all the new stuff or stuff we haven’t watched before ... In our house it’s soup and scary movies … We make caldo de pollo … My great-grandma would make the chicken soup. That’s the thing in our family that we do.”
—SAMANTHA WELSH TAYLOR
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“We’re pretty much big decorators in our family in terms of, you know, decorating the house for different seasons. So, that would be probably our biggest fall tradition is … decorating for first, Halloween and then Thanksgiving and finally Christmas … We have a tradition of making pumpkin bread this time of year. It’s a handed-down recipe from my grandmother to my mom.”
—KAY PEEBLES, TAYLOR
“The newest one that we’ve started is creating (a) citrus garland and so, in turn, kind of creating like a simmer pot so that the house smells really nice … Carve our pumpkins ... I really like to focus on our ancestors, later in the fall and then … We learn about other cultures, traditions ... Spend more time at the park.”
—MCKENZIE MURRAY, TAYLOR
“We spend a lot of time setting up our Dia de los Muertos altar. And revisiting stories of our families, our loved ones’ past, including pets … Making our loved ones’ favorite foods.”
—VERONICA SOLIZ JOHNSON, HUTTO
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“Collecting natural materials like dried-out seed pods, bamboo that’s drying out, like anything that’s dried out … straw, weeds and flowers, sunflowers, to save them to make wreaths at the holiday season … And if I travel, I will definitely get pine cones. But yeah, natural materials … I just do it for myself because I’m an artist 365 days of the year.”
—RACHEL MARTIN, TAYLOR
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