Are all these photos in a random order? Yes, yes they are. I have collected photos from a variety of people, especially since I did not take a ton of photos. Turns out when your costume doesn't have pockets, it ends up being a real pain in the butt.
Anyways - Halloween was a success! Lucy joined her neighborhood crew (she dressed as Top Gun - Maverick vibe). They hustled and went to lots of houses before crashing and relaxing for the evening.
In general, it was a successful Halloween but the crowds were lower than expected. Not a ton of little kids either. I also won't get too much into the fact that 50% of the kids either straight up took more than their share after we said, please take one or they tried to sneak more off the table. Very disheartening. We called them out every time and it wasn't sorry, it was more them deciding if they would push back on us or not. Just weird.
Our neighbor joined us for most of the handing out candy and was flabbergasted by the amount of kids trying to steal more candy. boo. *sigh* I'm just glad there were still plenty of houses handing out candy but I'm afraid the behavior of the kids makes us not want to participate in the future...
Chris and I went as Raggedy Ann & Andy. Yes - completely random, but we committed and had a ton of fun with it. Best part was the make up taking two days to come off Chris' face. Love it.
After handing out candy - we made our way to the Belciks of course for their halloween gathering. We didn't get a group show this year - but we all had fun being silly, dancing and singing karaoke. Their neighbors all joined and it was a good mix of people - al in hilarious costumes. Of course the night would not be complete without a bush photo shoot.
Jeremy dared me to tickle Chris to achieve this gem.
We have a tradition that on November 1st, we start decorating Christmas. We don't have to get it done, but the goal is usually get one tree done. I have reworked my Muppets Christmas Carol tree and got it done. It now has flickering lanterns, some more muppets characters, added ribbon etc. Lots of decorating to do around the house, but it feels good to have one done!
The dogs were SO tired after Halloween. Even though they stayed in the kennel - they could hear us and hear people and it just was too much. We were giggling at old man Remy just barely functioning on Sunday.
My favorite photo
Jenn was hilarious in her chicken costume.
What was left - WAY more than most years. I have to do the stats on it to see.
I forgot to get better pictures of the neighbors animatronics they build for Halloween - always so awesome - complete with movement, sound, fog etc.
Chris had a brilliant idea - throw the random stuff from our beer fridge in our cooler - for adults - we got rid of more than half of our random drinks! Plus the adults were happy.
Big winners: The baby bottles, the cotton candy and Airheads. The rest was about equal, but for the 3rd year in a row - most kids choose non-chocolate candy.
More random pictures. I'm sad we didn't get everyone in a picture. There were some great costumes.
Now it is fully focus on Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!