Halloween 2011

For Halloween this year we were planning on going up to the mountains with some of our friends but I got sick, so here is what we did instead. On Sunday, the day before Halloween, we went to the Newson’s for a special spooky Halloween dinner. We had pumpkin fruit, bones (French fries), mummies (wrapped sausage), brussel sprouts (scary on its own), eye balls (devilled eggs), slime juice (with floating fish and bugs) and monster cupcakes. It was so much fun to have such an exciting meal!

On Halloween, while eagerly awaiting the evening fun, we went in the backyard and played in the leaves. I love playing in big piles of leaves. Ben and I decided that we definatly have the best leaves for jumping in, throwing up in the air, ect.

I am trying to make a leaf angel!

On Halloween we were both excited to have Trick-or-Treaters. Ben has always lived in a remote country community so he never experienced the art of passing out candy. Then the last couple years we have either been in NY (where passing out candy is scary), in an apartment or at the Newson’s (where, as said before no candy passing). This year we were excited for this new experience. I taught Ben how to answer the door with an enthusiastic Hello and to oooh and aww over costumes. We practiced a couple times and he thought I was crazy but he saw that craziness in action later on that night and joined in on the fun.

So we got everything ready; our huge bowl of candy, front porch light on, decorations set and we sat on the couch and watched some scary movies. Every time we heard a noise we would both turn around to see if we had anyone but…no. In total we only got 14 trick-or-treaters; 7 were teenagers and 3 were family. I thought we would have a ton but Ben figured that since we were at the edge of the neighborhood (aka there are no houses in front of us) that kids just didn’t make it that far; so alas, we did not get very many but it was still fun to get all eager and excited. I told Ben that we should have gotten better candy (aka chocolate) since we have SO much left over but I guess it is good that it doesn’t call my name.

This is our candy bowl AFTER all our trick-or-treaters!!

Hope you all had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Side Note: Yesterday when Ben got home he sadly said that all he was looking forward to for Halloween was Vampire Weekend and now that it's over (we missed it) he wants to move on. Then he brightened up and said, "So I've been listening to Christmas music all day!!"  I already took down the Halloween decor and our house is ready for Thanksgiving!!!