Beware of the Little Spooks!

Today was a day that my kids have been anticipating for a long time. They just love Halloween and so do I. Even though it is a state holiday today, my boys still had to go to school which bummed them out a little, but they survived. For Jaedyn, it was a "normal" day except for the fact that she got to wear a Halloween outfit. I tried to get a picture of her in it before we took the boys to school, because she looked so cute, but she didn't want to cooperate very much. This was the attitude I got from her...

...and then she turned her back on me and wouldn't say anything. She's getting really good at ignoring me! I guess this way you get to see her Halloween hair bow that her grandma Goddard made for her for her 1st Halloween...she picked it out.

For dinner we had our traditional Halloween chili and rolls and I actually made both of them this year...nothing from a box or plastic bag from the frozen food section...and it was good! Jaron and Jantzen even ate some and thought it was good, so I'll call this dinner a success!

After dinner, we got the kids all ready to go trick or treating. We headed over a couple streets to meet up with some friends so we could all go together as a big group.

Here's the big group of little spooks my kids got to trick or treat with...(Jantzen, Jaron, Jaedyn, Caleb, Jansen, Natalie, Bailey, Jane, Maddy, Emmalee, Peter, and John)...

Every one better watch out because we let the little spooks loose!

The kids, especially Jaedyn, had a lot of fun going from house to house getting candy. There was one house that wasn't a fun one for some of the kids though. As the kids all went up the driveway to get some candy, a man came out chasing them with a chainsaw. As you can imagine, some of the little kids ran away screaming and crying. My little Jantzen was one of those kids that was crying. I think that made him afraid for most of the night. He stayed pretty close to me and Josh the rest of the night. I wasn't too happy that this particular house did that, but I kept my cool.

Here's my cute little "Minnie" enjoying her Halloween night. She wouldn't let us hold her trick or treat bag, even when it got really heavy. She wanted to be a big girl and do it all by herself.

Peter, Jaron, and Caleb were the "big kids" in the group...

After doing some trick or treating for a while, Jaedyn started getting tired. Lucky for her she had her daddy there to carry her.

We headed over to our neighborhood to go to our favorite neighbors house before Jaedyn and Josh went home. This is Daniel's house (he's sitting on the porch in a mask)...

Jaedyn went up with her daddy to get some more candy from Daniel. We stopped at his house on our way to meet up with our friends and he gave all my kids king size Kit Kat bars, but he didn't give that to the other kids. He just likes our kids the best. He even gave me and Josh a king size box of Junior Mints (can you see Josh's box in his back pocket?).

Josh took Jaedyn home after that and I took the boys out for some more trick or treating. Josh didn't want to pass any candy out, so I took our candy out with me and gave it away when I saw other trick or treaters. I called myself a "mobile candy giver outer".

We went to a couple more neighborhoods before we called it a night. There were a few houses that Jantzen refused to go to because people were wearing masks and he was too afraid, but the rest of the kids had a blast!

Here I am with the other trick or treating moms for the night. It was fun going with a group of friends that I could chat with while our kids collected candy.

My kids had a fun night and got way too much candy! I'll be giving some of it away and I don't think the kids will even notice. Thanks for a fun night everyone! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!