Halloween '08

Last night we did our traditional Halloween stuff. We made the rounds to all the grandparents, except for my parents, who came to our house, and then came home and Trick-or-Treated in the neighborhood. This neighborhood is nothing like our old neighborhood on Halloween. At our old neighborhood, the streets are packed with cars and people trick-or-treating. The houses are all lit up, and we even had a crazy lady who dressed up her dog and took it around to people's houses. In this neighborhood, I think we went to 5 houses, and the rest all had their porch lights out. The kids were a bit disappointed since they're used to house after house handing out candy. I don't mean to make them sound like ingrates. They were still excited about everything and had a great night. The first thing Evan said this morning was that he loved trick-or-treating last night. They just didn't understand what the deal was. I didn't either since my experiences with Halloween were with a dad who loves Halloween way more than Christmas and spent extended time doing awesome paint jobs on our faces and coming up with great costumes in a town where the houses had fake graveyards set up in their yards and black lights and fog machines. In fact, I mentioned to my mom that at the next Homeowner's Association meeting I was going to ask why this neighborhood is so crappy on Halloween, to which she replied that they would all say, "She's nothing like Margaret," (the lady that lived here before us, a social butterfly, and the sweetest person on the planet - yep, nothing like me). But, overall it was a nice night and the kids got plenty of candy to last them at least until the next holiday, and they're still running around in their costumes today. By the way, Drew was a cute, girly version of the mad hatter, Evan was Iron Man (which he calls I-Run Man), and Alli was the cutest genie ever.