Halloween

It's ridiculous how much candy we have in our house right now.  Because:
1. My kids went trick or treating in my parents neighborhood on Saturday
2. Ethan and Brynn had Halloween parties at school.  The note said to bring in some candy and a treat for their party (all optional though).  So I sent Ethan with some Halloween fruit rollups (1 for each of the kids in his class) and 2 pieces of candy per kid in his class.  Brynn same thing except instead of fruit rollups, it was fruit snacks.  I must have missed the fine print (written in invisible ink) that said "put together really awesomely cute goodie bags and include at least 15-20 items per goody bag.  Make custom name tags for each child in the class and it's optional, but recommended, you have Halloween photos taken of your child and make gift tags from the photos".  Seriously!  WTF?  These other parents work full-time too.  Where do they find the time?
3. We have LOTS of kids in our neighborhood, so I bought LOTS of candy to give out (in our last neighborhood we would usually run out of candy at some point and I'd have to start giving away the candy our kids trick or treated for).  But this year it rained.  Boo for rain on Halloween.  It rained from 5pm until about 9pm with a few minutes here and there of no rain.  Therefore, I think the really little kids stuck to only a few houses instead of venturing out in their wagons to rest of the neighborhood.  So we ended up with quite a bit of the candy we started with.
4. Our kids went trick-or-treating in the rain.  They held umbrellas and away they went.  They hit up quite a few houses before they got too cold.  I think they did pretty well...basically all good candy and not any crappy or weird candy.

They were pretty proud of the costumes they picked out this year.  Blythe loved the makeup job I did for her (after I googled "Easy witch makeup for kids").  I love Google.  Makes my kids think I know EVERYTHING (which of course, I do....I just reference Google for verification).  Ethan's face is also a shade of yellow.  Yellow doesn't quite cover the face like green face paint does.

And with Daddy (as scary, mean-looking guy) and Brynn (as a beautiful butterfly):

I should clarify point #4 above.  By "kids went trick-or-treating", I mean Ethan and Blythe.  Other than the picture above where she is eating a fruit snack, Brynn spent the rest of the evening like this:

which meant no trick-or-treating for her.  Not if I had to carry the screaming, wiggly toddler while carrying an umbrella and a candy bag.  It's not like she needed to bring home any MORE candy.