Also last week we went to our friend's halloween party at their church. They had games, candy, and bounce houses and again I neglected to take pictures.
Finally actual Halloween rolled around. We started the afternoon with trick or treating at the businesses in downtown West Linn. We came home and at that point, between that and the parties the week before, our BIG candy bowl was already full. I was really tempted to cancel the night's activities, but the kids wouldn't hear of it. Instead we went to dinner at our friends, the Estimada's, house. We then met the cousins for the usual trick or treating route. This was Emily's family's first year here so we were a big group. The big kids ran from house to house. Lincoln and Carrigan did a pretty good job of keeping up but Isabel and Elsie lagged behind and were more selective about the houses they went to and eventually both ended up in the stroller.
We ended up with WAY too much candy. I don't remember ever getting so much before. I think there were a couple of things that contributed to that. Our first stop on the night out was at Merrick's old teacher's house. She was so happy to see him that she told the kids to take handfuls of candy and they were happy to oblige. Then, later in the night, Carrigan's bowl got too heavy for her so we emptied it. At the next house they noticed it was empty so they helped her fill it with two big handfuls. I repeat. WAY TOO MUCH CANDY!
My favorite part of this halloween was Elsie telling people she was a "blue hummingbird". I wish I had some way of recording her sweet little voice on here. She must have thought that blue hummingbird was what we called our costumes though because when she saw me dressed up as a sunflower she said "that's Mommy's blue hummingbird".
It was a great year for our zombie baseball player, little devil, and blue hummingbird!
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