Halloween--Is it FINALLY over?

For us, Halloween started at the ward Halloween party on the 11th and it just kept dragging on the whole rest of the month, with different parties and activities. Bruce and I were so ready to be done with Halloween by the time Halloween finally rolled around. Alice and Myra, on the other hand, loved every minute of it.

Really, since when has Halloween become a month long event? Maybe it's just a Kentucky thing. People around here seem to go all out for Halloween, especially in the decorating department. We're talking huge rope spider webs covering the whole front of a house and a giant spider, of course (with those long pool noodles for legs). One house had about 20 carved (each one different) jack-o-lanterns as well as a puke green toilet with a witch coming out of it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg--these people go all out. And it's rare to see a house that's not decorated.

We also figured out on Halloween night that you're supposed to sit out on your front porch (or just stand out in the street with your candy bucket) if you want people to take your candy. Before we were ready to go, I kept on seeing kids wandering around but no one knocked on our door (even when I had the porch light on, which was the signal FL), but we soon figured out what we were doing wrong. Some people made a night of it, lighting bonfires and drinking beer. A lot of the adults were dressed up, one guy serenaded the street with fiddle music, and others had props and scary music. It was quite an adventure. Myra stole the show with her little pig costume. We would put her down a few feet before we reached the neighbor and let her waddle over (tail wagging) and grab a candy out of the bucket and put it in her bag. She was a pro after having practiced trick-or-treating at the Zoo.



Alice is a little miffed in this picture because we wanted her to eat dinner before she went trick-or-treating. We finally came to a compromise that she could go before dinner but she couldn't eat any candy until after she ate dinner. Someone turned out to be very stubborn and didn't have any candy on Halloween.



Here's Myra checking out the candy bowl.


Post Trick-or-Treating: Myra got to eat a Reeses and a KitKat and like any good piggy, wanted more!


Alice didn't even ask if she could eat the candy, she was too busy making candy lines and sorting the candy into piles. Playing 'sort the candy' is her favorite thing to do now--I think she would be very content never eating the candy. The candy pile does mysteriously get smaller and smaller at night but I think that might have more to do with Bruce and I:)