Our Happy Halloween!

What a day!

I had to work on Halloween so these sweet boys waited all day for me to get home. Not only that but right before I got off of work I picked up a 911 call that I had to stay on the line for, so I got out of work late.

The good thing about this is that Halloween is right after their birthdays. They have lots of new toys to play with. Ryan said they all played games the whole day.

When I got home Ryan was at the door giving hand fulls of candy to trick or treaters and the boys were in their costumes waiting for Mom.

As soon as they saw me they ran out the door with their pumpkins and right past me.

"Let's go!"

So I turned back around and walked out the door. Ryan left the candy on the porch for kids to grab and we were off. Ryan had everyone all ready.

Now, this was a new experience for us. Ryan grew up on a farm and told me he would have to bike to places to trick or treat. I spent a good portion of my child hood south of BYU campus. Most students weren't thinking about trick or treaters so we had to spend most of our time finding the people in our ward who were home and who were elderly-and who made homemade apple cider and made you spend several minutes of your trick or treating time inside their house while you sipped cider and talked to them. I didn't mind usually but it did take a good portion of the night... and I am pretty sure Sister Hay didn't wash the plastic cups...We were always pretty sure they were used by everyone...

SO, this was a big deal and a new experience for all of us. Trick or treating in the subdivision.

While waiting for me the boys were able to figure out pretty quickly how the whole thing worked. They handed out candy with Ryan and watched all of the other kids come to the door so they were on it.

I have to tell you, it was such a blast!

There was such an energy in the subdivision! People were everywhere. Trick or treat was being yelled, parents were talking out on the street. People at the door were so nice and so willing to say hi to spider man and the black spider man
the kids felt it too. They literally RAN to every door.
I tried to take pictures of all of the people everywhere trying to show you a feel for how the night went. The picture didn't turn out well though and I heard people saying throughout the rest of the night..."Mom, that's the lady who was taking pictures of us" like I was a weirdo-and come on! I am not old enough to be called lady yet!
This house was way spooky. There were about 6 kids standing on the street because they didn't dare to go to the door. They had an old lady walking out front and a "dead" girl on the lawn. Some other guy was walking around with a chain saw too.
Nothing would keep our kids from their candy. They didn't even think twice about it. They ran up to the door while all of the other kids watched!

Ryan and I looked at each other a few different times and smiled. It was such a fun experience. I have never known Halloween to be like that-besides church parties which usually didn't happen the night of Hallowen anyway.

When we got back the boys were pooped! They are such cute kids. They asked for permission to go through their candy and kept it in their pumpkins. Ryan and I showed them how to dump it out and check out what they scored.

I think we did pretty well! Next year we will have another kid running around so hopefully we will score a lot more!

We hope you all had a great Halloween!!