halloween night

We had a great Halloween night.  Halloween is a friends & family kind of holiday to me . . . the more the merrier.  So I invited 35 people to my house for dinner on Halloween night!  Everyone was fabulous and brought food and it turned out to be pretty fun.  We had 4 pots of soup and lots of Halloween food, treats & drinks before we went out trick-or-treating. 

 

Trick or treating was fun.  We did a loop in my neighborhood and it turned out great.  Ryan ran his big elephant self around the entire loop.  He let me carry him once we were a few houses away from home but he wasn’t letting anyone carry his bucket of candy!  He loved following all of the kids around and attempted to barge in to any house that had a dog.  And of course, Nate loved going with some of his friends.  After every house he would yell, “mom – I said thank you again!”

It turned out to be a pretty fun night.  There is no way I would have pulled this off in time without Sam’s help.  My mom forgot she told me she’d come in the afternoon to help with set-up [she’s the queen of dinner parties] so Sam showed up even earlier than she originally had planned and saved the night.  We cooked and arranged to the tunes of Christmas music.  When my mom showed up – she was quite a lifesaver, too. 

In October, we watched a lot of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” so we continued the Great Pumpkin tradition in our house this year. 

Nate and Ryan each picked about 10 pieces of their favorite candy to eat this week and the rest went in to the big black cauldron that was left on the porch on Halloween night.  The Great Pumpkin comes and takes all of the candy and leaves the boys with a surprise.  This year it was Superman t-shirts and some superhero figurines.  They loved it.

Happy Halloween!