Halloween!

As usual we had so much fun on Halloween! It is our annual tradition to gather all of our family and friends at our house who don't have their own trick-or-treat plans or as awesome of a neighborhood as ours to come over and trick-or-treat all over our neighborhood and then come back to our house and eat chili and yummy artichoke, garlic bread and pig out on candy!! This was a our biggest year yet! We actually ran out of two pots of homemade chili and had to open a can or two!! My mom and Ty and Lisa, Torin and Trace, dad and Christine, Scott, Johanna and Jakob, Kody, Brian, Macy, Drew and Evan, Julie, Anthony, Faith and Mikayla, Matt, Ann, Antonia, Maddie, Noel, and Dylan were all here and then Pastor Mike and Kim stopped by with Taylor and Jason and Elisa were here too with their brood of Halle, Braedon, Ella, Lola and Jaellyn! I think the total was like 20 adults and 20 kids INSIDE our house at once! We are used to that outside for parties, but inside it was a bit crowded! Let's just say the kids had fun upstairs in the bonus room and no adult dared enter until the end of the night when everyone had left... I think it took Anthony almost 30 minutes to get everything squared back away... this is for a job that on any regular day takes about 5 minutes! It was nuts! I don't know what those kids were doing! But oh well... for most of the night they were happy and so were the adults!

Aidan dressed up as a Pit Crew guy from the Cars movie. Alec was Darth Vader! He was so funny too... he kept the mask on for a really long time. He wanted to wear his baseball helmet with the costume too! He had a light saber and everything. I was a pirate... Ruby, the Pirate Beauty to more exact (that was actually the name of the costume!). Anthony didn't have the time or inclination to dress up... he was just DAD... someone needed to stay sane anyway!

It was the first year that both kids knew what was going on and knew what to do at the houses to get candy. Alec would have to stop after each house and look in his bag and smell the candy!!