Reverse Trick or Treat

So normally this is how Halloween goes for us. We decide as a family (or just mom) what we are going to be. Mom goes crazy getting all the costumes together. We go to our church Halloween party and everybody tells us how amazing and funny and cute our costumes are and mom pats herself on the back. Then Halloween night the kiddos get to decided what they want to be (usually something we already have or something that can be thrown together cheaply). We end with a huge amount of candy that mom eats way to much of. We love Halloween!

Ok so here is what happened this Halloween. 1st we find out that Garett will not be with us on Halloween because he has to be in the field (at camp Bullis which is literally 10 miles away). Bummer. Fine the kids and mom decides what we are going to be without dad. Mom starts to buy stuff for costumes. Then we find out that our church doesn't really do a Halloween party just a trunk or treat. What is that all about, the candy is the worst part of the holiday. And if there is no party then nobody is really going to oh and ah over my cute family dressed up together. Huge Bummer. Fine Mom declared that it is a free for all Halloween. Everybody chooses for themselves. Well except for Mallory (I already bought fabric for hers) and Vaughn (he can't talk so he doesn't get to choose). So........

                        Mallory is Dorothy. Super cute!

 Preston is a Vampire. Then later on in the night some adult asked him if he was Dracula, he then asked me who that was, then he started telling people that he was Dracula.

 Spencer is a bat. He didn't really care about the costume he was truly in it for the candy.

 And Vaughn is "where's Waldo". I was Where's Waldos mom but there is no pictures of me so believe me I look just like him, fat gut and all.

Salta is a Zebra. If I had to do it again, I would turn the strips the other way.

So we went to the church trunk or treat and everybody told me how cute my kids were but I just keep thinking that if they only knew how cute they could have been. Then the next night my friend Katie came over (her hubby was at the same field training as Garett) and we went trick or treating in our neighborhood, which just to re-comfirm, I LOVE MY NIEGHBORHOOD. We were just finishing up when Garett called about 7pm saying they were done with their training but he had to stay there for the night. So I made a quick decision and we loaded up in the car to go see Dad. When we got there the boys had there candy bags and asked if they could share with the soldiers. (I was a proud mama, they wanted to give away their candy). So we called it reverse trick or treating. It was so much fun. The soliders loved it and my boys loved it even more. However, I thought they got rid of so much candy but when we got home we still had so much. Snickers with almonds was my favorite this year.

Just a side note. This picture below is Spencer getting stitches in our friends kitchen when he ran into our car door at our church party last year.

This picture is Preston getting his eye glued together in our kitchen by a friend after he ran into another kid at school and it just happened to be the same night of our churches trick or treat. Hopefully I don't see a pattern starting.