halloween fun

Halloween this year, was kind of busy. The boys still had karate to go to. Then we had to hurry out to Cody's baptism in Glendora. After that, we hung out at Cody's house for banana split sundaes. Then headed off to Grandma and Grandpa McAlister's house to have dinner and go trick-or-treating.

It was a busy day, but a good and fun day.

Here you can see Grandma putting faces on the "mummy dogs" for dinner.


We brought our GFCF corn dogs for the boys. They still made good "mummy dogs".

We're all dressed up and ready to go! The kids had their first "theme" set of costumes. Duncan and Liam REALLY wanted to be Mario and Luigi, and they all thought that Jennan should be Peach and Tegan should be Yoshi. Luckily for us, there was a green and yellow dinosaur costume that fit Tegan in our Halloween boxes, and the kids accepted that costume as Yoshi. I'm not sure if we already had Jennan's Princess costume already or if Anna bought it this year, but it was a good Peach costume.

Trick-or-treating went really well this year. No one did any complaining till much later in the evening. Even Tegan was quite eager to trick-or-treat and keep up for much longer than expected.

We trick-or-treated with Josh and Sara's family again this year, as well as an old friend of Sara's family. Brenna (sp?) was a peacock (and made sure every person who answered their door knew it). She's probably 5-6 years old. They also have a baby boy who spent most of the time in the stroller.

This house was cool. It had two red spot lights with Halloween scrims, and ghost lanterns in the yard.

Here's Anna and I in our costumes. Anna wore that outfit at school on Friday as well. One student said she looked like Ozzy Ozbourne. I'd like to thank the vertical stripes on the ref. shirt for their slimming effect. Though next time I may have to wear platform shoes.

It may have been kind of hectic at times, but Halloween was a fun day. At one point though, Anna and I got a chance to just sit and chill for a moment while we were at Neil and Cyndi's house before we headed out to Pasadena. It was a nice mini break. The kids were great all day. TONS of candy. And we finished it all off with free blackjack tacos from Taco Bell.

SIDE STRORY: Blackjack Tacos

While in Pasadena, I had a quick chance to run out and get a Tommy's burger and a free Blackjack taco from Taco Bell. They were giving them away from 6pm to midnight. Anna had a bite of it, and I ate the rest. It was good. On the drive home, we realized we could probably still take advantage of the give away. There's a Taco Bell near us, so at about 1o:45pm, we pulled into the drive thru- inquired about the tacos- yes, they were still giving them away- I said there were 6 people in our van that would like to try one- pulled up to the window where a bag of taco's were presented to me- I said thank you, and we drove home. Awesome. (The kids were all asleep.) We put the kids to bed, unloaded the van, and sat down to some late night grub. Anna emptied her taco fillings onto a plate, I doubled up on taco shells, and we ate. The tacos were a little on the "piddle" side, but we didn't care. Food that is free is always good.