Happy Halloween!

This year Halloween was quite an experience! Eve dressed up as a ballerina. She even wore real ballet slippers! She was precious, of course! She really got into the whole process this year. We took her to a few houses near ours. Eve was not at all shy as she marched up, said, "Trick or Treat!" and accpeted any and all candy offered to her. She proudly told everyone, "Thank you!" as we walked away, too! As trick-or-treat-ers came to our house she greeted them all with, "Happy Halloween!" She was constantly snatching treats out of Daddy and Grammy's bowls. She even tried to walk away with some families telling us, "Bye! I go trick-or-treat!"

We had heard that Halloween was a big deal in our new neighborhood. Well, "big deal" was a huge understatement!! Families from all over the county came to our neighborhood, parked their cars along both sides of every street, hopped out and blanketed the subdivision. The first children came at 4:45 and we were out of about 20 pounds of candy by 6:30 p.m. One neighbor had bought $200 worth of candy hoping to last the night. Another neighbor was keeping tally of the number of children. Last year they counted over 700 trick-or-treat-ers!! We had never seen anything like it!!

Just as we were running out of candy, Zak and Trent came to visit. Eve and Zak were eating and playing with no time for photos. So, I turned on the Halloween episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and they settled down. To get them to smile, I said, "Say underpants!" They both giggled, shouted the word underpants and I got the perfect picture! ("Underpants" is their new silly word. They both think it is so silly. They were cracking each other up at supper on Wednesday night saying it over and over and laughing. Who knows what these two will come up with next?!?!)





We ended the night with supper at "High Burger" (I'm not sure of that spelling) with Grammy and Grandad. It was good, but we were all tired. What a day!