Halloween

Our Black Witch and Jango Fett

The cutest little buckaroo

My two little boys aren't letting me get a lot of things accomplished today, but I at least wanted to post pictures of the kids in their costumes from last night. Let's see how well I can type this while holding a baby!!!

Halloween was a great day! Taylor and Zach had so much fun at their school parties and we had a good time at the ward trunk or treat last night (our first family outing with baby Tanner!) Great minds think alike because it seemed to me that a lot of girls in Taylor's age range were dressed as witches (in all different varieties) and most 2 year old boys were dressed up as cowboys just like Mason! I was so glad that Mason was a good sport about the whole costume thing. I was afraid he wouldn't want to wear his hat and vest, but he kept it on the whole time and loved getting candy! The poor kid was sucking on candy all night with the wrappers still on!

After the trunk or treat, I took Taylor and Zach around to a few houses in the neighborhood for the "real" trick or treating. It makes me sad because I remember as a child in Texas walking up and down every street and knocking on every door and getting candy. Last night we walked about 4 streets and there were maybe 3 or 4 houses on each street passing out candy........where's everyone's halloween spirit? One house said they were out of candy and gave my children packages of crackers!! How funny is that? Taylor and Zach wanted to throw them away. And then another house just had a large bowl of candy on the porch so the kids could help themselves. I told Taylor and Zach to pick 1 or 2 pieces but looked over and caught Zach grabbing 3 and 4 handfuls and putting them in his bucket! I quickly ran up there and demanded he put most of them back, which he did. We finally made it back home and this was the end result.........

Yikes!! This doesn't include the large plastic bowl of candy we had leftover from the trunk or treat or the junk they brought home from school! Now, having all this candy around the house is a nightmare when you have a diabetic child, so I think we'll do a trade like last year.........the kids keep a few pieces of candy and give the rest to "The Great Pumpkin" in exchange for a small toy or money. Besides, Mason keeps asking for candy and their mom is eating all the fun size candy bars!!!

I hope your Halloween was a good one.......now bring on Thanksgiving and Christmas!!! Can you believe Thanksgiving is exactly 3 weeks from today!?!