As most of you know, we generally don't make a big deal about Halloween. In the past we've made the rounds to various family members houses to show off the kids' costumes and then went out to dinner. It worked for us. This year, the Hubs wanted to do something different. He wanted to "really" Trick-or-Treat. Not that our kids needed anymore candy… the Fall Festival at church provided tons of that. But he thought it would be fun to go to a subdivision and "really" Trick-or-treat. At strangers' houses. This was a first to me, but I went along for the ride.
We drove to a local subdivision and it was crowded. Really packed. Cars were lined up and down the street so we parked at another subdivision across the street and walked to "the" subdivision. We walked up to the first house and were greeted by a zombie jumping out of a casket as the kids' took their candy. The boys loved it, of course. I worried in the back of my mind that we would all have seizures from the massive strobe light. Of course we didn't, and as we were walking away to the next house we ran into two of our football families. It was nice to have female conversation… us moms and Violet hung back and talked while the dads and boys had a ball Trick-or-Treating. It was fun. We will most likely do it again next year.
I tried and tried, and this was the best shot I could get of all three. I should probably explain why Shaun doesn't have a costume. He thought he was too old to dress up since his youth group was having a White Out the day before Halloween. The only costume he needed was a white shirt. At the last minute, he decided that he wanted to be a kid one more year and go to Kidpak. It was too late to get a costume, so he improvised. He was an injured football player. Get it? Ha!
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