Trick or Treating...Round Three

A Monster and a LEGO

(To start off the night, BIG sugar cookies from a thank you cookie bouquet from Bart's work...this is before dinner even!)

To end our Halloween festivities, we invited a family to come trick-or-treating with us in our neighborhood.

I had it all figured out...route, stroller to lean on/dump heavy candy in, the works.

I think it went pretty well. We have two boys who have huge bellies full of sugary goodness who would agree.

However, the beginning of the evening didn't start off with a bang, at least not for Brennan. He'd abandoned his vampire costume and moved on to being a blue LEGO. I'd made a blue LEGO costume just as the internet and my good ole creative mind told me to, and I'd went to FIVE stores on Halloween day to hunt down some blue hairspray. I was feeling excited (though I was worried about the cheese/lame-o factor going on with this homemade outfit) for the evening and had Brennan come get his hair ready.

He.Freaked.Out.

He wanted NO PART of getting all blue hair.

When I was done spraying it all in, he starts panicking..."Mom, people will LAUGH at me! Wash it out now!" as he dives for the bathtub.
"No time, Brennan, we are about to go to Burger King and enjoy their cheap cheeseburgers and free fries in honor of this holy of holy holidays."
We had an unhappy Brennan on our hands, but made the journey to BK.
After him seeing a few weird costumes there, he was feeling fine (or had forgotten about the blue color) and ready to hit the road.

Our friends met us and we set out on a trick-or-treating mission. Brennan wanted to go to 70, no 79, houses! I'd say we went to 30, but got enough candy to last until at least Christmas, if not Easter. All over people proclaimed what a neat costume Brennan had on. I still think it is kind of cheesy and lame, but I guess after seeing 534 darth vadars and 999 princesses (no offense to the d.v. and p.'s out there!) maybe seeing something nobody else had on was a nice change...however, Jackson didn't get ONE compliment, but I think that is due in part to the fact that NOBODY probably knew what the poor kid was! Joss, of course, got oodles of compliments, but she's just so cute, how could you NOT compliment her???

It was a lot of fun and the boys are already planning out what they want to be next year (maybe if I am really lucky, I can find those costumes on clearance sale today and have next year taken care of...no banana-alien-cat-clown-monsters here.).

Go here for more pictures. (You'll get to see some cute ones of my nieces, too!)