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Trick or Treat


Grace wore her Texas cheerleader outfit for Halloween this year. Brenda and I looked all over for an Abby Cadabby costume in her size, but we didn't have any luck. That's okay, she loves to wear her cheerleader outfit. Trick or Treat was kind of a tough concept. See Grace never has had much in the way of candy, so there wasn't a tremendous appeal to the buckets of chocolaty, fruity, chewy, sugary goodness that people tried to tempt her with.
For her, it was just a walk down the street. If we got her to say anything at all, it was usually a soft "trick or treat" while she looked at her shoes and swung her pumpkin bucket around. We went around to our neighbors and made sure she got the experience, then it was back to our house. We had Gram and Granddad over, they brought pizza for us to eat and they manned the candy at our house while we walked around with Grace.
Once we got back home, we all just sat out in folding chairs at a card table to hand out candy and look at all the costumes and wave to neighbors. Halloween was a little different this year since it was on a Friday night. I would have expected a larger than normal turnout, but as it happened, most of our neighbors were either in Lubbock getting ready for the Tech game or they were at the Round Rock High School football game. Either way, our street was pretty quiet. Last year there were neighbors out everywhere and tons of cars parked along the street. Seems our neighborhood attracts more than just our neighborhood kiddos for candy.
We had a great time though, ate too many snickers, gummy lifesavers, starbursts and 3 musketeers, but hey, that's what it is all about right? So did anyone else notice the unusually high number of "un-costumed" grown up trick or treaters? What is up with that?? I am not talking about the too cool for school teenagers, I am talking about the parents of litte ones that were trick or treating right along with the kids! I felt a little silly having to tell grown adults to only pick one and leave some for everyone else... geez. Oh well.
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Anonymous said…
Sean, Boy your taking up of my daylight time, but i will tell you that i made a quick cool halloween deal at the last minute and two kids came and cleared me out and their parents let them do it. Ihade to shut down early. Suss
November 4, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Anonymous said…
It was fun!! Even "us girls" underneath Bevo!! Okay, Gram getting up from under there wasn't so graceful but Sean was kind enough not to post those pictures!!!

Love you guys!! Gram
November 4, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Nathan G Hall said…
So adorable (and no, I'm not talking about Bevo)! Glad y'all had fun!

With love and (Hershey's) Kisses,
D&N
November 6, 2008 at 8:11 AM
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