The Halloween Chronicles

We begin last weekend with our family carving celebration. We cut up some pumpkins, ate pumpkin seeds and made lots of "spooky" noises. A good time was had by all:

I made witch cupcakes for the boys to mark the celebration (how cute. So cute, right?):

On Halloween, we always host our friends and their kiddies for pizza, chaos and beer (for the adults that is.) The kids in all their costumed glory:

Snarfing down pizza before the race to the sugar high:

Then we were off to trick or treat! The kids raced from house to house, intent on filling their bags to the brim with sugary goodness. This meant that I lagged behind with Griffin -and only managed to capture him on film.

Griffin meets our neighbor's Buffalo:

In addition to trick or treating for candy, Aidan was trick or treating for cash to fund Unicef. He had a small container he held up at each house as he announced loudly, "I am also trick or treating for the poor kids!" He was insistent on filling his Unicef box with cold hard cash and accepted no excuses. When one household told Aidan, "Oh, well, I don't have any money on me, so I would have to go find my wallet." Aidan smiled sweetly and said, "That's okay. I'll wait."

At the end of the night the bags were full, and the kids were crazed with sugar. Another successful Halloween for our brood.

If only we could avoid the inevitable sugar crash, sleep deprived Halloween hangover that is today. Chris was a wise, wise man when he scheduled his all guy, all sports, all Buffalo weekend today - leaving me with three sugar addicts and counting down the minutes 'til nap. (A very wise man, indeed.) Can anyone say, "payback?" I can. And I am.