Halloween

It was our first Halloween in the house (we've always been in appartment buildings before) and it was a real TREAT for me to be able to get dressed up (chris too) and hand out candies to all the cute little kids!

We did get some teenagers too - but almost all of them made at least some effort at a costume and were polite... a lot of them told me they liked my costume too!

Chris was a pirate and I was a witch - Chris looked really good in his costume - so handsome!! I made my costume a couple of years ago and really love wearing it - probably because it has lots of glittery bits to it!! I wore an auburn long wig with bangs and laughed when Gizmo started barking at me... well at least until I told him that he was a silly puppy - he realized it was me and started wagging his tail, but he was still growly barking too... and that made me laugh even more!!

We had about 80 kids come to our door and we ran out of candy at 9 - so we turned off the plastic pumpkins (great dollar store buy 2 years ago) and took them inside, turned out all of the lights and - at 9:30 went to bed... There was a loud party or something going on somewhere on our block but otherwise it was really quite nice.

I woke up the next morning , sort of expecting to find our house or car egged or TP'd but I was pleasantly surprized that everything was good.

Overall - I am super thrilled at the turnout and the fact that we had NO candy left over! A fact that is really good considering I am trying to get rid of my excess weight while trying to get pregnant too...

I'm looking forward to next year - maybe I'll have my own little bundle of joy to dress up as a pumpkin??