Halloween 2009

This past weekend was Halloween, but this past week was the buildup to Halloween. Every year, I think that it isn't going to be so busy, but every year I am proven wrong.

This year at school, a committee that I participate in hosted a Trunk or Treat and Chili Supper on Friday night. This, added to the general chaos of getting ready for the kids' classroom parties and getting ready for the daycare party, just increased the hecticness (is that really a word?) of the week! Except for the shopping, Halloween rivals Christmas for the amount of work it takes to pull off!

Needless to say, the school parties, the Trunk or Treat and Chili Supper, and the daycare parties went off without a hitch and were very fun for the children!

On Saturday evening, we headed to my brother and sister-in-law's house in Cameron to trick or treat. This is an annual tradition for our family. We gather at their house and trick or treat up and down their street. We eat supper together, which is usually pizza (this year it was leftover chili from Friday night) and then we take the kids to some "scary" haunts in town. We stuck to the same agenda this year and had a blast as usual! When we went to the "scary" houses, I learned that my kids are pretty much chickens like their mom and dad! Neither one of us cares too much for scariness!

Morgan dressed as Indiana Jones, Marshall was Mutt (from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), and Maggie was a mommy!