Halloween

Halloween was pretty low-key this year, which was really nice. We were excited to get to stay home and pass out candy. For the occasion, I decorated the front porch for the first time.






I made chili for dinner, as usual, and then I took the kids out trick-or-treating. I guess we got pretty lucky with the weather. We've been told that in Halloweens past, the weather was cold, snowy and miserable. For us, the temperature was fairly mild and we only had to endure some light sprinkles of rain. The kids got tons of candy (Gillian filled her candy bag more than twice!) The girls then went to a Halloween party and sleepover and the boys came back to house and dumped and sorted their candy. Overall, it was a relaxing holiday. Here are pics of the kids in their costumes:


Captain Jack Sparrow




Indiana Jones (also named Henry)

High School Musical Cheerleader (Sam's own creation)

Witch (I think this is the third time Gillian has been a witch - she makes it work!)

In the future, I'll need to take down the Halloween decorations the DAY after Halloween, because the next day, a storm rolled in.

The heavy winds blew everything to bits, knocked over several pumpkins and took our gravestone away completely. It's now "resting in peace" in some other yard (or town). We get some really high winds at our house, because we live on what locals call "the bench". Our neighborhood is situated higher above the valley, which produces weather similar to what's in the mountains, but also gives us great views of the city.