A Night of Trick-or-Treating

Halloween Night is always so pumped up for the kids....they always think it is going to be the best night ever. I even remember as a kid....it is almost as cool as Christmas Morning for the kids....not so much the adults. But no matter the circumstances, they always seem to make the best of it.

First of all Grandma Nanny wanted to come and see the kids before they went trick-or-treating, so we had to hurry and get them ready, cause Nanny was on her way. So we hurried and got the kids ready, Nanny came and brought the kids a treat, and then we had to wait an hour or so before it got dark. I have this fetish with not letting my kids go till dark.....Cause Matt, as a kid, use to go trick-or-treating right when he got home from school.....EMBARRASSING! Where was Nan when Matt would go trick-or-treating after school? Or is Matt exaggerating?

We took some Halloween pics, and then rode the 4-wheeler down to the neighbors. So when I said the kids always make the best of the situation on Halloween, it was because the weather was not so great. It was sprinkling all day. When we went to meet our neighbors The Bundersons, there was no rain, but by the time we took more pics and waited for it to get darker, it had started raining pretty good. So we did the whole....drive in a car, from house to house, with all the kids shoved in the back. It was hard getting in and out of the car for prego mom, so Matt did a pretty good job of taking Casen door-to-door and not complaining. I did go to a few house, cause I wanted to see the kids and how cute they were. It was not raining too hard, it was just raining the whole time.

Casen was so cute.....he would run up, dragging his bag the whole way to the door and he would try to say Trick-or-treat, but it would come out as TRI-TREE. Then he would say Thank you. It was cute. And if someone put the bowl out and let the kids take their own candy, he would just keep taking and putting it into his bag. Hilarious. No limits. No manners. I love that age.

Cade was also quite the trooper. I was laughing. He reminded me of what Matt would have been like as a kid....first one to the door, first one to the next house. I had to keep reminding him it was not a race and to have fun with his friends. And Corey looked so cute as a little cowgirl too. She had fun too....and no complaining because of the rain. AMAZING!

After the kids bags were full, we both went home to our separate houses for a bit. I fed my kids dinner, REAL FOOD. And then we went to our other neighbors house for hot chocolate and cookies. We stayed there for about an hour, let the kids play while the adults talked, and then we were ready to go home and get the kids in bed. All in all, the rain sucked, but the kids had fun and that is all that mattered. I was excited to go walking from house to house, but for some reason the weather has not been cooperating with our plans this month! At least it was not COLD. That is the worst, when they are all bundled up in coats and you can't even see their costumes.