Halloween

Halloween at our house is an all day adventure. We try to visit as many of the grandparents that we can through out the day and then do the usual trick-or-treating at night. We started out by going to Great Grandpa Prigmores and by going with my sister Susan it makes it easier for me with 3 kids per adult. James always decorates for the holidays and has things for the kids to see, and they love to play with Kismet the black cat and Bernerd the brown cat. After their fill of treats the sugar kicked in and it was time to go.

Next was to Great G&G Kimber. I was very surprised that they would sit still after all the cookies and pop they had just had, but they sat very quickly for the picture so they could get one of grandmas cookies. Again with more sugar and nap time approaching they were restless and it was time to move on.

I have to say sorry to my mom that we didn't make it up to the U this year, but it would have been miserable if they would have missed nap time, and they could not hold still from all the treats.

After our lunch and naps it was time to go again. We were off to my aunt Janet's house where they had decorated their garage and had hot dogs, cotton candy and root beer for their trick-or-treaters. My kids were just excited to be outside. I don't ever remember a Halloween so warm that we didn't even need jackets! Needless to say much more sugar was consumed there, especially by Conner who quickly learned how to use the drink cooler and was helping himself to all the root beer he could dream of. When it was getting dark it was off to grandma Brown's house for pictures. While doing pictures Conner started throwing the little pumpkins like they were basketballs and would laugh as they bounced. We finally made it home for trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Conner was so mad that he was not able to go with them and then he was even more upset that he couldn't have the bowl of candy that we were handing out. When I took off his costume his onesie was brown from all the root beer he had spilled on himself. As you can see we played costume shuffle this year. Adalee was the pirate for this night and Kaden was Batman for the beginning half and Spiderman for trick-or-treating. It is a good thing that they don't grow very fast and can fit into their old costumes.