This week was Halloween. We started the celebrations on Thursday, with our church harvest party and chili cook off. Our costumes were a bit of a debacle. CC didn't get to be what she wanted to be because we didn't have time to go a million places and piece together her dream. Instead, she settled for wearing a costume we had at the house. We also were in a tight spot with Elsie when we discovered that her costume would not fit over her cast and we were scrambling to find something that would work at the last minute. It definitely was not the ideal, but we got in together in the end.
Friday was Halloween and the kids had the day off of school and I took the day off of work. I thought maybe we would go do something fun, but instead Merrick had basketball practice and then went to hang out with his girlfriend. Elsie and CC were on the lazy schedule. It was pulling teeth to get them to get dressed and ready for the day. They said they wanted to conserve their energy for trick-or-treating.
At some point I did convince the girls to carve Elsie's pumpkin. We then roasted roasted the pumpkin seeds for a fun fall snack.
The weather had been nice during the day, but we looked at the weather and noticed that it was supposed to start raining a 7pm. We decided to push up our trick-or-treating timeline and go from 5-7pm. We had an early dinner of "Frankenpizza" and headed out with our cousin, Isabel, to hopefully miss the rain. Unfortunately, the rains had different plans. It started raining a little after 5 and pretty much rained the entire time.
Thankfully, I had thought ahead and bought some ponchos. It was obviously important for Elsie to keep her cast dry so she spent much of the night checking, adjusting, and making sure we were accomplishing that. It was wet, our costumes weren't our first choice, but they got plenty of candy, so I guess it was mission accomplished.
