Halloween--a week later.

Halloween---a week later.  Sorry about not sharing sooner.  I spent most of last week exhausted and unable to concentrate on anything.  I ended up taking half a sick day on Thursday and then proceeded to sleep the afternoon away.

Friday night before Halloween we carved our jack-o-lanterns.  This proved to be very difficult as two of the pumpkins we had picked out were rock hard.  After pounding one of the pumpkins with a hammer and knife Chris ended up using his jigsaw to cut the rest of the design out.  The pumpkin Chris picked was a regular pumpkin and he did an amazing job with his design.

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Chris spent Saturday helping our friend, Bentley, move.  Jordan and I spent the day getting the garage ready for all of the trick-or-treaters we were told would descend upon our subdivision.  We picked up some decorated plastic that turned our garage into a stone dungeon so Jordan and I spent the afternoon getting that hung.  This was not an easy task as the wind was blowing which made it very difficult to tape the 'walls' to the garage door.  I used a heavy duty project stapler to hang the plastic from the ceiling of the garage.  Since we had recently had a garage/yard sale and what didn't go was given to charity...the garage was basically empty.  Chris put a TV out there, we hooked up our DVD player and played an eerie Halloween dvd that was on a loop, so it just kept playing.

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As I was gathering my costume together I realized something terrible.  I sold or gave away the black shirt that I use with my costume.  So, I was not dressed in all black as most witches are, I was dressed in a combination of purple and black.  Chris made it home in time to get his costume on and then he helped Jordan get into his.

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We/I bought about $75 worth of candy to hand out to the trick-or-treaters.  I had picked out several bags of candy that was not our 'favorites' so I opened them to hand out the Pixie Stix, the gum, and the nerds out first.  Towards the end of the evening I opened one of the five/six bags of chocolate.  We were left with four/five unopened bags of chocolate.  We don't know if it is the H1N1 that kept people at home or if it was all of the churches having their Fall Festivals on the same night as the trick-or-treaters....we just know that we were left with almost as much candy as we had given out.  Chris took most of it to the office on Thursday.