Trick or Treat

We celebrated our first Halloween in our new house last week. The festivities kicked off Sunday night with each member of the family making their jack-o-lanterns. Ella's was a moon, star, and bat stencil we found on-line. She is putting on the finishing touches with a Sharpie marker. Ray's was a big spider and mine was a cat sitting behind a jack-o-lantern. I failed to get pictures of the family's complete set. I also failed to get a photo of them lit at night. I was really slacking on my blog commitments.
Here is Marley with hers. It was a haunted house! Very Cool. This stencil is from the same website, BetterHomesandGardens.com. They have awesome holiday decorating ideas. Notice Marley's hair still looks great from the wedding. This is a good 30 hours post salon. We got our money's worth out of this hair-do. She also has bloody red scars painted all over her face. Earlier in the day she and Ella were making scary faces with body crayons. Ella had a complete jack-o-lantern painted on her stomach. I couldn't get a blog appropriate picture of that. I did try. Here are the kids in their costumes and in character. I love this picture.

My entire family was invited to join us on Weds. night for our first trick-or-treat event in the new neighborhood. Everyone contributed to our potluck dinner and to our treat bowl that would be given out to our new neighbors. We were worried about having enough candy because we had been warned that we get a TON of kids. Well, we bought a TON of candy.

Marley is ready to hit the streets with her official Hannah Montana tote bag but, first I make her pose in front of my new scarecrow and mum display.

Sweet and cat-like, Baby Jaguar offers this playful pose.
Baby's First Halloween.

Tod gets Adam ready to head out in his new Tigger costume.

Ready or not, here we come! The whole gang is ready to go. My parents stayed behind at the house to hand out all the candy. Trick-or-Treat is from 6pm-8pm. Adam lasted about 15 minutes and Tod had to take him home. I don't blame him for not liking it. It was chilly out and the streets were full of weirdos ! To much for the little guy. The bigger kids wore out about an hour later. At 7:15 we headed home to see what was happening there. We found we still had a TON of candy to get rid of. Mark and Ray took over the job of candy disbursement and the rest of us went inside to play with the baby. Somehow, in the last 45 minutes of trick-or-treat, the guys gave away ALL the candy (with the exception of the pieces my dad was sneaking into his pockets and into my mother's purse. Some kids never grow-up!)
Here is Marley with a much happier Adam.

I'm not sure who finds who more interesting????

I am sure that they REALLY like each other.

P.S. Kim heard at school today that the rumor is my house is very generous on Halloween.

Now we will have to live up to this again next year.