Halloween 2013

These are the "healthy" candies I bought for the kids.

Halloween was weird for us this year. Or, really just different. Since Asher has been a year old, we've gone trick-or-treating with our friends, the Seymour's.  It's pretty much all my kids have ever known. This year, with having just moved - for various reasons, we did not go trick-or-treating. Thankfully, the kids school had a Halloween party the day of during school hours, but the community was also welcomed to attend. (I can't get over how different the school is up here from what we are used to.) The school was decorated for Halloween - not fall, Halloween. Kids were able to dress up in costumes, as were parents and teachers. The food provided was mostly homemade, whereas what we're used to, had to be store bought. I walked into the school, nobody checked me in. I just went to the gym and joined in. It seriously reminds me of what life must've been like 50+ years ago. People are so kind and trusting. It's like we have gone back in time. The boys did not have costumes, but they did have their skeleton jackets given to them  by Perry's mom, so they wore those (at least Asher did, Zeke didn't want to). Everyone at the school was really friendly and kept offering for Macie to join in on the activities, but she was being super shy. They had different stations/activities set up and the classes rotated between them. It was cute because the high schoolers were usually the ones helping the younger kids - it was really sweet. The assistant teacher in Asher's class told me how funny he is and how they all enjoy having him in class. Honestly, I didn't get to speak to Zeke's teacher...not even sure whose group he was in, but I took turns following both boys from different activities.

That evening after school, they REALLY wanted to go trick-or-treating. I ended up letting them hit a few houses on their own which took all of five minutes because we live that close to others. They zipped up their skeleton jackets and went to about 5 neighbors houses. They came home and shared what they got with their little sis. I had bought them some candy (pic above) a week before knowing we wouldn't be going trick-or-treating this year. I had also purchased Halloween cookies for them to make with Perry when he came home that weekend. Perry's mom also mailed them out a box and made them each their own container full of candy and bought them each a pair of house slippers. They just received that this week. So, they still had a pretty good Halloween.