Happy Halloween!

So of course since I had said Blythe would probably be a monkey and a flower on Halloween, she instead was Princess Leia and a skeleton. That's right, the skeleton which got no votes was the winner for trick or treating (she wore Princess Leia to school). We painted her face though too so she would look scary. She was hard to recognize in all her scaryness.

Daddy dressed up as a....actually I'm not sure what he was. Scary farmer I think. I was a cowgirl (it's the only costume I own...oh, except Dorothy...Mom - I still have that one). And we got Ethan into the chicken costume without any fussing, though he didn't trick or treat for long...too tired! Here's a pic of the whole family:

We had practiced the trick or treating process with Blythe beforehand. "Ring the doorbell, then what do you say?" "trick or treat". Then they give you candy, then what do you say? "thank you". Great! We forgot to tell her the part about taking only 1 or 2 pieces of candy. Girlfriend kept taking handloads until the giver was smart enough to pull away. At one house they had left a bucket on the porch. Blythe told Daddy to stay back while she went to that house. He wasn't paying attention and then looked back at her and she must have taken several handfuls. So needlesstosay, we have A LOT of candy...for Mom to eat. I better dust off that treadmill.

Here she is with all her candy:

And one last pic of her while out trick or treating (at a neighbor's house):