Thomas & a Dog {Halloween 2013}

Halloween has come and gone.  This year might have been less than exciting compared to last year when we went to 60 different places to collect candy, but we still enjoyed the holiday enough.  We never made it to a pumpkin patch (why?  Because Wal-mart had $2.98 pumpkins, that's why!) but we never got around to carving them.  Oh well, the kids won't be scarred by one year of parental slacking.

But we did make it to our church's Trunk or Treat!  Both H & J got to walk around the circle of cars and get candy. 

Getting ready to Trunk or Treat!

J didn't quite get it - he wanted to eat the candy as soon as it was dropped in his pumpkin.  He was trying to be sneaky when I caught this photo.  And H had a blast, although she since is a social butterfly, mostly wanted to wave hi to her friends when she saw them.

Our church did a carnival inside too and luckily, we got lots of little toys that make big noise.

 Halloween was on a school day so the kids got to dress up again!  H was SO excited while J was less than thrilled. He simply didn't want that dog head up!  He was fine once you took it off.

And our last stop was to Northpark Mall where the stores were handing out candy for all the kids who wanted to trick or treat inside.

We met a bunch of our friends there and had a crazy time trying to wrangle them all!  Luckily two of our hubbies came so it was easier with more adults around.

We did end up going to my sister's house for actual trick or treating.  H went around the neighborhood with cousins while J and I hung back at the house.  Too bad we only got a handful of trick or treaters...but their parents were probably feeling a little "done" like me with all the other events we could go to.  Fun year though! Maybe next time we'll get to carve the pumpkins.