It really is fun for me to do~ and my family is the best, so it's fun to do it for them! This year I got just a few pics, BUT awesome Cade took lots and lots of pics and video and put together a video of the party!!! How glad am I I invited them????? Check it. It's fab.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcZu3NMGKYHalloween fell on a Sunday, which meant the Trick-or-Treating was on Saturday. We always have the Whitmore's over~ it's tradition! Kate and Adren don't know not spending Halloween together is even an option! There was a lot of waiting around all day and then the time came to finally get in costumes. I made a couple of warm yummy soups, wings, and Eliza brought a yummy salad. It was about this time the rain started pouring- and it poured! It was a heavy, cold rain that was not letting up! What to do? Eliza and I couldn't remember a time when this was the case. One year it was snowy- and some years quite cold, but I don't recall it ever pouring rain. Well, the kids were going crazy, dying to get out there! I suggested they pile in the van, but Adren did NOT want to do that. I figured it would just get colder, so we bundled them up as best as we could, and they were off. They were pretty much drenched in icy rain by the time they got to the end of the sidewalk. The few trick-or-treater's that came by were getting fist-fulls of candy from me, because I figured the night was a bust. Soon the rain stopped and the streets were jumping! Will finally came home with Rachel who was shaking and crying she was so cold. This made me worry so I jumped in the van and tried to find the rest. I couldn't, and by the time I got back they were all home, and pretty much in the same state as Rachel had been. I had the fire going and dry T-shirts and warm socks ready. It took a little while to warm everyone up, but soon everyone was good as new. I couldn't believe how much candy they got! They always dump it out on the table just giddy! Needless to say, I had to get stingy on handing out the candy and we finally ran out! But Adren was willing to hand his out, so between that and all the gobbling, pretty much all the candy was gone that night! I should have taken a picture of the garbage can! There was probably 5 lbs of just candy wrappers and sticks in there! I was so opposite of that! I would have never handed out my candy, I took a strict inventory of what I collected, (mostly so I'd know if any was stollen by daddy or Eliza) and it was hoarded until spring. I remember finally biting into a mini snickers bar from my hidden stash months later only to find it hard as a rock. Yeah, my kids are real different from how I was.
All in all, it was a great time. Halloween always is. Even so, those decorations can't come down fast enough the day after. I guess I party it up so hard I'm definately done and ready to see it go until next year. Great times!
Here are pictures of the freezing evening. You can just feel how cold it is by looking at the kids!
And here are a couple random Halloween photos:
