Happy Halloween!

We had a very fun Halloween. I made loaded potato spiders webs for dinner:

And then Kai and Issa helped me set up for Trick-or-Treat:

Evan had wrestling practice, and Brad headed out early to get him. We did a whole Charlie Bro

We started on the porch because of the rain:

Kiddos could choose toy, candy, or rock--just like the Peanuts gang!

Thankfully the rain stopped and we could move to the end of the driveway. Those brick steps are so scary for smaller trick-or-treaters. Kai joined our fun at Linus, and Issa played Charlie:

I spent the whole night laughing at Kai as he tried to keep his sheet on. I was Snoopy:

Brad was the dog house with Woodstock on his shoulder:

Evan finally joined us post-shower as Pigpen:

We did not get a decent picture, but we had so much fun. We gave out 500 toys, 500 pieces of candy, and six pounds rocks. We started at 5:30 and were hauling the table in at 7:45.

We had cocoa and watched the Nightmare Before Christmas. Just like always.

My highlights:

The adults were truly delighted by the theme. We even had the moving playing above our garage.

A middle school boy came up all excited because someone did the potato in the candy bowl thing and he got the potato. I asked if he wanted another, and his eyes lit up. I ran in the house and brought back a butter potato, a fingerling potato, and sweet potato. He literally screamed and was way too excited. I'm still chuckling.

The rocks were absolutely the favorite--especially with big kids. There is something so very sweet about that.