Halloween 2013

As always we had a very eventful and fun Halloween. It started with James' school parade in the morning, which is always fun to see. I love seeing all of the kiddos in their different costumes and they always have such a great time. We had a huge rain storm the night before, but it moved out of town right in time for the parade. It won't rain on our parade! ;-)

Iron Man ready for the parade

My little Iron Man

He's so tough! :-)

For Halloween evening we had friends over for a pre-trick-or-treating dinner and had some playtime in the backyard before we headed out to trick-or-treat. James had such a great time with his friends so we will definitely plan on getting together for Halloween every year with our friends.

All the kiddos ready for trick or treating

 My mummy dogs...I think they turned out pretty cute and they tasted delicious!

 Our pumpkin carvings this year (we were a bit lazy with these this year, as you can see the small one didn't even get carved, oops)

Our Halloween decorations from the street

Note to self: Don't leave candy out for trick-or-treaters while you're out and about. I left a bowl (actually a cauldron) of candy out for kids that came by while were out trick-or-treating. We were a little surprised to come home to a completely empty bowl. Since our home is kind of at the end of our neighborhood, we rarely get trick-or-treaters, but I thought I'd be nice and leave some candy out. Last year we had tons left when we came home, so I thought the same thing would happen this year. We recently put in a new security system which has cameras, so we watched back the tape. To our surprise the first culprit was a mother with three children. She proceeded to take multiple handfuls and put them in her kids buckets. Three pre-teens came by a short time later and wiped us out of the rest. So within 15 minutes of us leaving, we were out of candy. I get the kids taking it, but the mother taking that much candy was astounding to me. So much for the honor system! Oh well, what can you do. Now we know not to do that next year. Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!