Happy Halloween. I'm sure everyone and their kids had a good evening collecting enough candy to supply us for a while. It sounds like everyone had great weather for it. It's the first time I remember taking the kids out trick or treating without winter coats squeezed under the costume.
While there are many benefits to living outside of the city, the one downfall is Halloween. It takes a lot of time and energy going from house to house and up every driveway. While you do burn some extra calories (which come in handy after raiding the kids' bags every night) it's quite an effort just to collect. I think the kids were out for about 2 hours and managed to get no more than 20 houses done! Some neighbours were resourceful and brought their tables down to the bottom of their driveway...very clever and appreciated! Fortunately, everyone was very generous and the kids did manage to fill their bags pretty quickly. But next year, we take the Gator tractor!
The kids did have a blast. Grant was a football player (Dallas Cowboys of course) for the Firefighter's party Rob took them to and changed his disguise to become Batman for Halloween night. Ashley was a funky orange and black witch. Grant was so excited after each house and became even more excited when I said he could go and do more houses. He ended the night by saying, "this was the best Halloween ever!" Okay, not like a 3 year old has a history of Halloweens to compare it to, but we took that as a sign the evening was a success!Well, it looks like it's time to start thinking about Christmas. Take care all and thanks for your very humorous and very appreciated feedback on some previous topics! Miss you all!
