Halloween 2007...
Is it Halloween already? Didn't we just celebrate the 4th of July? Thanksgiving and Christmas will undoubtedly be upon us before long. Maybe it's part of getting old but it just seems like the space between each holiday is getting shorter and shorter. It's as if someone is secretly throwing away a week here, a week there, without my knowledge. Ugh.
The weather for this year's Halloween was perfect, that's three years in a row now. The mild temperatures made it so much easier to deal with the costumes. No need to have arguments with the kids about putting on jackets and gloves which always hide their well crafted outfits. Instead, the kids wore just the costumes and there were no complaints registered about it being too cold. Yeh!
It was my turn to walk around with the kids this year. It's beginning to look like this may have been the last time for that ritual. The kids are getting older and having your parents with you is so un-cool. There's a part of me that won't mind staying home yet another part of me will miss it. It just means that they are growing up. It was bound to happen but I think we did our best to enjoy it while it lasted. It's still fun handing out the candy, especially to the really little kids who are amazed over the fact that their parents are encouraging them to beg candy from strangers.
This year we had two pirates in the family and one...I'm not sure what she was. Sam and Abby were the pirates, Abby was reported to be "A doll that once belonged to Hannah that she had drawn a funny face on" so I was told. I have to admit, she was creative.
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Sam was dressed as the Pirate Jack Sparrow yet he refused to wear eye liner.
Abby and her friend Marissa who was dressed as...another pirate.
Hannah was dressed as a pirate but she didn't manage to achieve that pirate"Intimidation" factor. She looked more like a wait person from Long John Silvers. "Table for 4 tonight?"
The weather for this year's Halloween was perfect, that's three years in a row now. The mild temperatures made it so much easier to deal with the costumes. No need to have arguments with the kids about putting on jackets and gloves which always hide their well crafted outfits. Instead, the kids wore just the costumes and there were no complaints registered about it being too cold. Yeh!
It was my turn to walk around with the kids this year. It's beginning to look like this may have been the last time for that ritual. The kids are getting older and having your parents with you is so un-cool. There's a part of me that won't mind staying home yet another part of me will miss it. It just means that they are growing up. It was bound to happen but I think we did our best to enjoy it while it lasted. It's still fun handing out the candy, especially to the really little kids who are amazed over the fact that their parents are encouraging them to beg candy from strangers.
This year we had two pirates in the family and one...I'm not sure what she was. Sam and Abby were the pirates, Abby was reported to be "A doll that once belonged to Hannah that she had drawn a funny face on" so I was told. I have to admit, she was creative.
Click on images for larger view.
Sam was dressed as the Pirate Jack Sparrow yet he refused to wear eye liner.
Abby and her friend Marissa who was dressed as...another pirate.
Hannah was dressed as a pirate but she didn't manage to achieve that pirate"Intimidation" factor. She looked more like a wait person from Long John Silvers. "Table for 4 tonight?"
posted by Jim Flynn at 8:53 AM
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