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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Happy Trick or Treat.....

This is a huge file so I apologize if it takes a million years to open up... wouldn't blame you if you don't stick around to see it although I think it's worth a look.  This is the past four years of Trick or Treating at our place, I think it's neat to see the kids growing up a little more each year. It seems there's a good mix of ghoulish and non-scary costumes going on, there's a zombie, vampires, fairy princesses and jellyfish in there!

We usually have a party and I cook a big pot of chili and we invite friends to come and join us in our neighborhood, it's always been a great place for the kids to walk around gathering their goodies. This year though I wanted to keep it a low key because quite honestly I'm exhausted... and the house is a mess... and it fell on a Monday which is not exactly famous for being the best party night of all the nights of the week. So the girls had just a couple of the usual friends come over and they set out with Daddy while I sat there and gave out candy until thankfully it was all gone and I could turn off the porch light and wait for their return. It seemed to be pretty busy this year though, more little Spidermans than you could shake a stick at.
Urghhh... am I just getting old? I can't wait until the girls don't want to do it anymore but I have a feeling that's a long way off. They love Halloween, they have both said it's their favorite day of the year... can they really love candy that much??? I guess so!!!

3 comments:

Brian Miller said...

nice...low key is not bad...we had a really poor turn out this year which was sad...only 4 trick or treeters...

all the costumes are great as well...

Sheri said...

Great collage. Loving the Pair of Dice!

It is the opposite here. My son is special needs and I would love for him to know what trick or treating was instead of seeing it as a bunch of strange people. We should trade next year. lol

Bee said...

There are some labour-intensive aspects of motherhood that I won't miss -- the endless ferrying about comes to mind -- but Halloween I love. Even after we moved to England, we've done our best to keep the traditions (often including a big pot of chili) going.

FAB collage!