Josh, Jenn, Ashton, and Emmy…

Ashton and Emmy practicing their Trick-or-Treating.

We decided to start the festivities early this year and go Trick-or-Treating on Main Street.  I cannot believe the perfectly gorgeous weather we had!  It was a lot of fun but it quickly got completely crowded.  It was still fun to walk around and see all the costumes.

When we got home, Ashton was pretty tired and just wanted to watch Ichabod Crane and eat his candy.  Look at that, with that bag full of candy he really just wanted an APPLE!

So we went Trick-or-Treating that night.  We all started together, but after the first house we were separated.  Josh walked around with Emmy who loved it all and never wanted to come home, even at 8 PM she was still going strong.  I RAN after Ashton.  He and his friend, Mac, were running from house to house.  Ashton would skip houses that weren’t scary.  He was searching for two things: scary houses and KIT-KATS.  At about 8 (he was walking by then), he said “Moooom, there aren’t ANY scary houses and NOBODY has kit-kats.”  We walked down a whole street without knocking on any doors.  Then he saw smoke and a strobe light and ran to that door, picked a KIT-KAT out of the bowl of candy (THANK YOU!!!!) and then told me he wanted to go home.  Pretty cute.

When we got home, the kids ate some candy and watched a little bit of “Batman” with Josh and Kris.

After the kids were in bed, we were ready to watch our scary movie, BUT FIRST Kris and I had to dance to “THRILLER”!!!  I know you have always wanted to see Eleanor – the chubby Chipette, and Jeanette – the nerdy Chipette, dance to “Thriller”, so here you go….

This year Ashton wanted to be CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow (don’t you dare leave out the captain). Cari decided to be Minnie Mouse while we were at Disneyland.  She made her cute outfit and had some leftover fabric, so I decided to make Emmy Minnie Mouse also. I need to brag for a minute because I think this costume is super cute and I made it without a pattern. I can’t take any of the credit for my sewing skills because my mom taught me everything I know. As I frantically threw these costumes together I just kept thinking about her staying up all night long making Halloween costumes for all of her kids. In my memory, we could never decide what to be until late the night before.  Then almost like magic when we woke up in the morning  we would have these perfect costumes all ready to wear to school.  I don’t think I really appreciated those all-nighters until now.

When we showed Ashton his perfect pirate costume the first thing he said was,”Thanks Mom! Now I just need boots and a sword!” I hadn’t considered how crazy he was about “Captain” Jack Sparrow.  I searched everywhere for boots for Ashton and finally ended up just making him some.

Josh and I scrounged up some costumes this year and it actually made it a lot more fun.  We took the kids over to Grammy and Paw’s and then we came home to Trick-or-Treat.

We all went around our block while it was still sunny, then I stayed at home to hand out candy while Josh (in his bare feet) took the kids out for almost two hours. (Cari and her roommate, Amy, joined him halfway) Emmy loved knocking on the doors but didn’t wait around for the candy.  Ashton was so sweet the whole night.  At every door he would get a candy for himself and one more for Emmy.  Even if the person at the door said “Juuust one”, Ashton would say, “I need two.”

After Trick-or-Treating, we went over to Eddie and Lindsey’s for their Halloween Party. We had such a fun night.

Ashton’s loot – this is only a third of the candy he brought home. We gave all the peanut products to Cari and Amy since Ashton’s allergic. Now every time he dumps out his pumpkin and sees his big stack of candy he says “I went to soooo many houses”