Trick Or Treat?

We had an interesting Halloween this year. The good parts: dressing up for library storytime, Josh’s USANA party, Uncle Justin’s Pinnacle Party, and our annual pizza party with our good friends, the Smiths. Matt had a blast running to houses with Brenton and others and saying “Trick or Treat”. Emma, however, just wanted to eat the candy….all of it! She would chomp down on candy and get to it through the wrapper  (most times) before we helped her eat it without the plastic. Matt has had 2 maybe 3 pieces total. He doesn’t have a sweet tooth.

So Matt picked our family costume idea this year (back in August) after his dad shared his favorite childhood book by Dr. Seuss. We were the Sneetches! Well, the kids and I were star bellied sneetches and Josh was Mr. McMonkey McBean (the guy who’s machine removes or replaces the stars on their bellies), also chosen by Matt. We got quite an array of puzzled stares by people, so here’s what our costume was based on…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories

We had fun with pumpkins. Grandma and Grandpa came over to enjoy carving and the kiddos. It was a fun night!

Josh whipped out 2 awesome carvings, a spider and a witch, with his dremel tool. I think he’ll be using it in the future for sure! Matt had a blast carving the jack-o-lantern face with grandma. I spent too long on Matt’s pumpkin wish…Finn McMissile from Cars 2. But it was all worth the roasted pumpkin seeds!

The bad part to Halloween this year was that our shed got burglarized on Halloween night! Someone (probably a group) decided to take all of Josh’s power tools. It was a pretty new and nice collection due to his woodworking hobby. We aren’t really that angry over it, mostly we feel super violated that people would come into our fenced backyard with malicious intent. Thinking about it gives me CREEPED OUT GROSSY FEELINGS!!! We were definitely tricked more than treated this year.