Lilly told me she wanted to be a witch and she stuck with it
so we got her a witch costume. We also looked for a little broom but did not
have any luck so Tyson made her one. It turned out really cute and made a good addition
to her outfit. We wanted to go simple with Bennett so we got him some skeleton
PJ’s and the cutest skeleton hat. I think the hat made the outfit.
Trunk-or-treating was the Saturday before Halloween at our
church and we were lucky because Grandma Harris got to come with us. This is
the second time we have had her at our trunk-or-treating and we told her it is now
a tradition and she needs to come every year.
Our ward did a good job with trunk or treating. They had
yummy food, fun games, and a lot of candy. The best part was watching Lilly
stop at a car with a big spider that would jump out every couple of minutes. She
got scared with the first jump and ran away. Then she wanted to sit and watch and
laugh at everyone else getting scared. Yes, she likes to laugh at other people’s
terror.
Tyson had a busy end of month at work and school so we didn’t
have time to carve pumpkins until Halloween Day. Trick-or-treating starts
promptly at 5:00pm here and we didn’t get all of our pumpkins done. I do not
like carving pumpkins so I wasn’t much help. I did get the kids ready though. I
let Lilly go crazy with the markers on her pumpkin but she was WAY too excited
about trick-or-treating to spend much time on that.
We were able to get out of the house around 5:15. We left a
bowl of candy on the porch and headed down the street. It was a rainy and cold
Halloween which decreased the number of trick-or-treaters. It also decreased
the number of houses we went to. I went down and back up the street with Tyson
and Lilly before returning to the house with Bennett (he was snug and warm in
his carrier). Tyson and Lilly made it probably another 15 minutes before she
got cold and wanted to come home.
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| I know this is blurry but it is a good one of Lilly running from one house to the next |
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| Bennett pooped out after trick-or-treating |
We did run out of candy but we purposely didn’t
open up one of our big bags because I had plans to return it. There weren’t
enough people at the end to use the whole bag. So instead we handed out some of
the candy Lilly wouldn’t eat. When we ran out around 6:45 we turned off the
light. Lilly did not like this though and she would sneak over and turn it back
on; which means we had people ringing our doorbell when we didn’t have candy –
we just ignored it. Trick-or-treating ended at 7:00 pm and we spent the rest of
the night hanging out at home, eating candy, and keeping warm. I love
trick-or-treating in this area and how it is all scheduled out by the city.
