Halloween 2008

I don't remember Halloween being a week long party when I was a kid but that is what it has been this year. The sugar rush began the Saturday before Halloween at our ward's annual "Trunk or Treat" party. Unfortunately the weather was poor so the Trunk or Treat party was moved indoors. That didn't have much effect other than making the distance from one parent passing out candy to the other even shorter as we all sat along the perimeter of the gym and passed out candy to the primary kids. During the next week we made candy apples on Monday night, tried to carve pumkins on Tuesday until Dad had to go to urgent care to get his hand stitched up, went to the Vienna Halloween parade on Wednesday night where the kids marched in the parade in their costumes. Ryan had a Halloween party on Thursday in Joy School. Lizzie had a Halloween party and parade at school on Friday. Trick or Treating finally happened Friday night. We had great weather which meant that the kids could stay out longer than normal and really clean up. Their sugar levels have been through the roof. Our neighbor laughed as we had the kids running sprints on the front side walk at 9pm on Halloween to get the energy out of them. Lizzie was SuperGirl, Ryan was Buzz Light-Year, and Andrew was a Lion.