Trick-or-Treating

Finally, Halloween is here and it is time to go "trick-or-treating". Of course we have been getting candy and dressing up for a week now, but oh well.

Here are the kids practicing their door manners at our door before we go out.

Here are our pumpkins by the front porch. They had already started getting soft so they will be thrown away in the morning.

These are the next door neighbors pumpkins. I thought that was such a cute idea and not nearly as messy as carving them.

We went out early while it was still light. First, it is easier to keep track of the kids that way. Second, our neighborhood is one of the busiest in town, so we needed to get back to our house before dark to start passing out candy.

This lady lives about 3 doors down, and she had made special bags for the boys. That was very sweet. The big spiders were climbing up her house.

The boys probably got candy from about 50 houses before we headed home. By then the policemen were out in the neighborhood passing out glow sticks for safety and watching over the festivities. We have people drive in from everywhere (the country, the reservation) to our neighborhood, so the streets are lined with cars and kids are everywhere.

Here are our friends the VanTyles who came by the see us after we got back to the house. We ran out of candy about 7:30. By then it was dark and most of the little kids had already come by, so that was okay. We don't mind if we don't have candy for the teenagers. We still had people knocking on our door at 9 pm (even though we had all the lights off).

All in all we had a great and plentiful Halloween and the kids loved their costumes. They will probably wear them all year long.