Trick-or-Treat

I never had the chance to post pictures of what we did with our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch.

Mr. "Pumpkin" Head

 



 

The classic "Charlie Brown" pumpkin

 

 

*Rylee has been enjoying "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" this Halloween season. She calls it the Snoopy show. 

 

Our favorite and hit with the neighborhood kids last night...

Mickey Mouse!

 

 

Speaking of last night, it was our best trick-or-treating experience yet.    Here we are before we left...

 

 

We went out a little early (around 6:45) and hit a few of our neighbors houses on our way to "the street" with the most Halloween decorations in our complex.  It was awesome!  Lots of people set up their tables and candy outside so you just went driveway to driveway.  One place had an elaborate table of skulls and creepy things.  Another place had a "scare person" dressed up in the "Scream" mask and costume.  Luckily he (or she) didn't scare the little kids, but as we were walking away, Jon tapped me on the shoulder and when I turned around - Ahhh!  It was the Scream person.  They got me good!  :)

We continued around the loop and then hustled back to our place (sometime around 7:45 or 8:00).  The kids and I sat outside and passed out candy for a few minutes so I could see some of my former students, but then the bugs and Jace's need for a bottle drove us inside so Jon took over.  He turned off the lights and came inside around 9:00 when our candy bucket was almost empty and Jace was asleep. The kids don't bother with houses that are dark so no one stopped after that. 

Jace was a real trooper.  He was all smiles during trick-or-treating.  Jon and I took turns carrying him because he couldn't wear his cowboy hat in the stroller (not the best costume planning on my part)!  But he wore the hat the entire time and didn't even fuss with it so he must have been at the perfect age for it.  He got to stay up late too so he was happy about that.  Unfortunately, he woke up at 5 this morning when he pooped.  Guess I shouldn't have given him all that "candy, candy, candy, candy, candy" (Garfield speak).  Just kidding!  Though many people gave Rylee extra candy "for her brother" while we were out.  :)

Rylee was ecstatic with her candy haul.  Her bucket was over 3/4ths full and even after we deducted all the milk-based treats, it was still over 1/2 full.  The third sentence out of her mouth this morning was "Can I have some more of my candy?"  She stayed up super late too - 9:30! - watching TV, eating candy and coloring (a new found passion - she stays in the lines and everything).  At least she had the decency to sleep in until 7:45. 

Hope your Halloween was filled with fun tricks and treats also!