Halloween 08

I've decided, I don't really like Halloween. It is so much added stress, especially with all the school parties, school trick or treating and then of course the regular trick or treating.
At Blake's school they didn't do parties but they had an Accelerated Reader dress up day and everyone in the school was supposed to dress like a pirate. It was great. Blake participated willingly and decided he'd like to go all out. So we piece mealed a costume together complete with eyepatch and earring and with the painted on beard and do-rag. I'm sad I didn't take a picture but we were in such a hurry that morning trying to get all of that together. The same day, Brett and the twins had a party and had to be in costume for school. Whew! Getting 4 children dressed in a costume at 6:45 in the morning isn't an easy job, its HARD. They all had a good time and got lots of good treats. Keep in mind this is all pre-Halloween activities.

Then there was the "real" trick or treating and dress up night. It was stressful but it turned out to be very fun. Everyone looked cute and loved being in costume and of course getting tons of candy. The amount of candy is ridiculous and we are going to have to find a way to get rid of some of it so their teeth don't rot out.

We chose to do one event this Halloween instead of 2 or 3 and we went over to Rachel's house in Hunter's Run and spent the evening. Rachel made chili and hot dogs and Teddi made lots of sweet goodies and then there's candy of course. There were several families there and mostly boys and they were wild and crazy, as if we're surprised, right? The kids trick or treated for a little while until they were tired and then came back to the house where they just were hyped up on sugar. There were a few bloody noses and lips but all in all, it was fun and they had a good time.













As you can see, we had a cow or dalmation, whichever you prefer, a lion, a Ninja and Indiana Jones.

This is what you call a cow/dalmation on a bike. And then a lion playing trucks. I believe that if they little boys could just play outside on bikes in their costumes, they would've been perfectly happy.


















These are the "big" boys that were at the party. Winston and Fletcher, Traegan, Clark, Luke and then my older boys.

Rachel and Abby are smiling so sweetly and Harper was so tired she was "over" the party and wanted to go to bed. Sweet girl was a real trooper for the evening with all those boys running around her.

Early on in the evening some friends stopped by and this is their cute daughter dressed up like Dumbo.
When the twins and Brett trick or treated at Lee, they stopped by the office and these are photos from that visit below.

This is Indiana Jones doing some sort of jig in my office floor. He's a trip.