Our first Halloween event was a party hosted by the nice lady who rescued Mom when our semi-faithful minivan decided to die in an inconvenient location (note to worried readers, the problem was a part on recall, which has since been replaced; van stays running until we turn it off now). The kids and I enjoyed the fun games, the yummy food, and the abundance of candy. Amanda collected a huge load of candy during the candy hunt going on in the picture below.
Amanda decided to be a super princess for the party. (See her cape?)
Jared decided to be Batman. That made Mom's costume ridiculously easy. Lydia came as an absolutely adorable baby girl.
Curtis got to be a dragon. Gotta love that little dragon tail on that cute little guy. :)
Our next event came the very next evening. It was our community's official trick-or-treat night. Here's Jared getting ready to head out. He wasn't always waiting so patiently; one of our neighbors told her friend how she spotted a tiny Batman scaling the building on that night.
Here are the boys off to collect candy.
Mom and the Muffins after some trick-or-treating. Amanda decided she needed a different costume, so she went as a doctor.
Due to budget issues and Mom's failure to buy candy, we actually handed out the candy from the party for our trick-or-treat back. However, thanks to Amanda's last minute raid on the next street up, we got back at least twice as much as we'd given out. And part of it came in full size candy bars, too. Yum!
The next day was the day that Amanda's school, along with other nearby schools, went trick-or-treating at a local shopping center. Mom and the other Muffins tagged along behind the last group of school kids to get in some more trick-or-treating, too. We even got bananas! Note that Amanda has yet another costume. :)
The next day, Saturday, was the library's costume parade and Halloween activity. We went with some friends, and we also got to go kite flying with them afterward. That evening was our church's annual trunk-or-treat and chili cook-off. Here are Amanda and Curtis together at the park during the kite flying time.
Finally, Sunday came, and it was officially Halloween. Jared still wanted to wear his Batman costume. He finally let Mom put his church clothes over top of it. When Dad got Jared out of his white shirt after church, he was amused to see the super hero underneath (Bruce Wayne pulled a Clark Kent, I guess you could say). Trick-or-treating was over, though, and Jared was very dissapointed. Fortunately, Mom had a Halloween cookie kit on hand, and that made things better. The massive amounts of candy we'd collected helped, too.
Epilogue
The kids soothed their Halloween withdrawal symptoms by munching on their candy over the next month or more. Jared continued to wear his Batman costume for at least a week after the fact, but eventually he made do with just wearing the cape. Mom was glad that everyone had a good holiday, but she is a little worried about next year, when we will probably all be forced to return to the dullness of just one day of Halloween. ;)
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