My how Halloween has changed ...

This Halloween we did things a little differently. We all went trick-or-treating as a family which was really nice. Usually, I am stuck at home passing out candy as the boys go out knocking on doors with Dad. It was so fun to see the boys excitement. Nick - was our sprinter - he would run up to the door before everyone else and lasted about 45 minutes. Tyson wasn't always fastest to the doors, but he was the last one ready to call it quits! Evan was so excited. He could hardly believe that if you knocked on someone's door and said "trick or treat" that they would really drop candy into your bag! It was amazing to him!





So here are my little "trick-or-treat"ers ... Tyson was a Jedi Padiwan. Joshy was Superman, Evan was a Pirate - the eye patch, earing and hook, didn't last very long ... we weren't far into the trick-or-treating before he just looked like a kid with a skull & crossbones bandana on his head ... side note, we lost that somewhere in the neighborhood, too. Nick was a zombie. This was a very last minute costume. I was in the middle of sewing a mummy costume for him the night before when Evan grabbed my rotary cutter and cut his finger. After two hours at urgent care - he is fine by the way and unstiched - we were late to the ward party and Nick had to wear his vampire cape from last year. Saturday was so full, that I never found time to finish it. The flip side ... at least we know what he will be next year!

It was a very interesting night, to say the least ... here are some of my observations of how Halloween has changed since I was a kid ...

1) Parents didn't have bags ... yep, I saw several parents coming up to the door with their kids asking for THEIR bags to be filled as well ... TOTALLY WEIRD!

2) Girls costumes covered more ... every time we passed a girl that wasn't dressed up as a disney princess, I would hear "I am so glad we don't have a girl" from John ... it seems the disney princesses were THE ONLY modest costumes for girls.

3) Some parents dressed up ... mostly mothers and please, refer to #2 ... horrible.

4) Parents didn't walk around with Beer in their hands ... these parents were always nice and happy to be out and about, but seriously now, they are walking down the middle of the street with children dressed up, the streets aren't well lit (but the parents sure were) and they didn't seem to think being impared is a bad idea? I actually passed a guy pulling a wagon full of ice and beer ... a walking misdemeaner?!?! Great examples for their kids - not to be too judgemental, but come on!

5) Not many people gave out candy ... maybe it was the recession or maybe I just grew up in a great neighborhood, but it seems only a fourth of the homes had their front porches lit.

6) Haunted Houses ... gotta tell you, this was great! Some people really went all out and it was a blast!

Even with the weird things, Halloween was still a blast and I was so happy that to hang out with the boys!