Happy Halloween!

Last night we went trick-or-treating like most other folks in our area.  Whenever a holiday such as this falls on a Sunday, most everybody celebrates it the Saturday before (it's a religious thing since Sunday is the Sabbath.)  Some kids have figured out that they can go both nights and really load up.  :)

Anyhoo, here are the kiddo's all dressed up:

 Obviously, Rigdon wasn't up for any pictures. 

So let's see if you can guess who everybody is, let's start with Aubrey:

She is probably the hardest for some to figure out....but I won't give it away just yet.  Keep thinkin!

Next, Ronin:

 Ronin is GI-Joe.

And then Connor:

Connor is Snake Eyes.

Finally, Rigdon:

 I know, easy, Batman.  But a cute Batman.

So here's a clue for Aubrey's costume - I am dressed up as her character friend:

I think this second clue definitely gives it away:

If you guessed Alice from Twilight, you're right!  Good job!  (I am Bella with a bad hair dye job since all I could find was a black wig.)

We had so much fun making Aubrey up as Alice.  We even dyed her hair a darker brown (didn't want to go too dark though) and cut it a little bit to match the hairstyle a little more.  Then we sprayed glitter all over her face and arms so that she would "shine like diamonds" in the sun.  Love it!

For the final touch (and just for the fun of it), I later changed her eye color to golden-brown in photoshop since we didn't have time to order any vampire contacts (yeah, you can actually buy those - gold-brown or red!)

We tried to match up with one of Alices' outfits in the first movie...I think we got pretty close with that too.

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Friday night we attended our church Halloween Party.  We were served up some sloppy joes and later went trick-or-treating around the classrooms.  However, you had to work for your treat, you couldn't just grab and go.

This one made me laugh so hard....

 Let me explain, Mr. Beck and Mr. Albright (above) have sprayed themselves with either shaving or whipping cream.  In order to earn your treat you had to throw Cheeto puffs at them and get your puffs to stick.  They crack me up just looking at these pictures, what a crazy and funny idea.

Rigdon's having a go at it.

If you had really good aim and wanted a challenge...you could get them to catch a few puffs in their mouths too.

Arrrr...ya gotta answer three questions to look in me chest for yer treasure.

It's always fun to check out everyone else's costumes.  Here are a few that I really liked:

Above: "White trash"

 Above: Cat in the Hat with Thing 1 and Thing 2.  Cute!!!!

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Saturday evening we did our door-to-door trick-or-treating. 

Aubrey noticed pretty quickly how people would give Rigdon extra candy because they thought he was  cute.  Guess that means I just might have to help him with all of that extra stuff he got.  We don't want him getting a tummy ache now do we?  And since Jed is gone, it's all up to me to make sure that he doesn't, right?  :)  

Look at all of them....just waiting for that door to open.

It was a perfect night for trick-or-treating, the temperature was in the 50's and there was NO wind!  A rarity indeed, considering some years it's either freezing, blowing, and/or snowing!  So we stayed out for a few hours and the kids got a whole bunch of candy.

 Pretty soon Rigdon caught on with what to do....ring the doorbell

 and someone comes out with candy! 

 Happy Halloween everyone!