We always stop at Grandma Myrtle's 6 miles away by 5:00 on Halloween. I have been wondering if maybe she would rather not have all her grandkids show up so that she wouldn't have to worry about getting someone to go to the store for her and using her limited resources to buy them candy. I was feeling a little guilty. (She always seems to buy candy bars rather than smarties or suckers.)
She was SO HAPPY to see us! ! !
She even asked us if we had to hurry off or if we could sit down and talk for a few minutes. 'Talking" really means yelling. She is around 96 years old and doesn't hear well.
She was especially glad to see pictures and videos of Kyson cheering for Utah State. She doesn't see him much, and she considers him to be one of her own kids. She babysat him everyday for the first two years of his life.
Grandma Mona met us up there to save us a stop at her house a block down the road.
We took our annual family photo in front of her house. It makes such a cool backdrop.
We knew that my friend was handing out full size candy bars close to our hood,
so we stopped by her house on the way home.
Then, since the line for quick pizza was pretty long, we stopped by another neighbor's
who put on their 9th annual Red Sox dinner.
He is a huge Red Sox fan, and dresses up in a RS uniform every year complete with cleats, striped socks, and batting gloves hanging out of his back pockets.
This year he even sported a big ol' fake beard.
(The Red Sox team grew beards during the season till the end of the season.
And won the World Series last night with full beards.)
So, we ate their hot dogs, chips, and soda.
Then, grabbed a Costco cookie and doughnut hole to go.
We lined up the family for another picture in front of our house.
Our neighbor 2 doors down serves homemade donuts and chili, so we headed over to get a taste.
They also had cornbread, homemade root beer, candy to hand out, and other neighbors hanging around handing out candy with Halloween music blasting in the back ground.
By now it was getting close to 7.
The action on my street starts to happen around 7.
You might like to call it, "the movies let out" cause it's like the movies let out.
It's a literal parade of people for the next hour and a half.
We don't answer the door to trickortreaters, we
stand in front of our door and hand out the candy.
Kash played the piano for the first hour till Koby got home from work.
Then Koby took over and played mostly Pirates of the Caribbean, since he
was dressed as a pirate.
Sorry about the blur. We ended up with a lot of blurry pics tonight. I didn't realize our little photographers had touched the lens with their sticky fingers.
Kort had requests from 4 different friends to join them for trickortreating.
We didn't see him till after 9 pm.
Then, we headed to the house 2 doors down on the other side of us for their "haunted house".
They put black plastic around their wrap around porch, and haunt the crap out of it.
It has black lighting, cages, people in all sorts of costumes hiding behind
life sized props and much, much more.
We always request the "no scare" tour, so I have never really seen
the full effect of their efforts.
This is where the main hang out is in our neighborhood. We had to
wait in line for 2 minutes to get to the porch.
And I mean 50 people at a time will be hanging around this
house at any given time from 7 pm on.
By the time Kauri, Kamarie, and I got done with the cul de sacs on either side of our
house, it was 8 pm ! ! !
They wanted to trickortreat our house, so we went back home and found Grandma Moda there.
Last year, those 2 girls were done trickortreating by 8 pm.
But, not this year. They wanted to go more.
We headed off a few doors down, when grandma and grandpa Ann and Kay drove by.
So, we headed back to our house so they could see me and Hubby together.
By the time we got 1 block away from our house, we realized the wagon was not cutting
it speed-wise, so we came back home and swapped for a car.
Our houses may be next to each other in our hood, but when you are walking,
the doors are not very close to each other, especially if
a couple of them are not home.
We made it to homes in our ward that we have never made it to before.
One had a haunted house type porch, but it was so out of the way, that we've never
gotten to it before.
At 9 pm, there were quite a few people out trickortreating still.
At 9:01, Kamarie declared that she was done and didn't want to do any more houses.
At 9:02, Kams was asleep in the back seat of the car!
So cute!
Kort and his friend still knocked doors till 9:15, and since it was our own neighbors
on our own street, the people were happy to see them.
It was a "slow" year this year.
We handed out candy to maybe 200 kids.
Usually, it is closer to 230 kids.
'Mind you, we have a small primary in our ward compared to most wards.
Most of these people walking down our street are complete strangers.
In my childhood, if we knocked doors for 2..5 hours, we'd get a haul,
like a pillowcase full,
but we never ran across the party
or the parade atmosphere
that we love about our street on
Halloween night! ! !
1 comment:
LOVE your new fence!!! Especially the jack-o-lanterns sitting on the posts. I don't know how it's possible, but your house gets better every year! Your costumes are always fantastical, too.
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