Friday, October 31, 2008

It's Trick-r-Treat Time

This Halloween I remembered a few things from my childhood: Mom always made us eat Hamburger Beans for dinner before we went out. We all hated hamburger beans, but we had to eat it before we could go trickrtreating, so of course we ate it. Mom's are smart like that. Very devious.
I remember one Halloween with my friend Amy Goodrich in my highschool years (I was so small no one even noticed I was a Senior). We made up this rhyme and sang it at every door "It's Trick-r-treat time and we're all feelin' fine, so give us lots of candy and we'll all feel dandy!"
Trick-r-treating in Hawaii is so different. First of all, it's so warm you can't wear those fuzzy costumes. Like poor Zion was getting way overheated. We had to take off the hoodie part and unzip him partway. And also, since it's so warm out everyone just stands outside on their porch and waits for the kiddies to come up. No more doorbell ringing. It makes for much faster trick-r-treating.We had dinner over at Darrell's house with all the cousins. It's so hard to get a good picture of all the kids at this age...Anjuli was a little hesitant at first. Darrell dressed up as a big gorilla and scared the heebeegeebee's out of her. But after a few doors, Anjuli was going as fast as she could as she realized how fun it was to get candy. She didn't even want to hold my hand.Anjuli didn't want to wear her princess outfit at first. But Zui read her Cinderella and I guess she changed her mind. Although she still wouldn't wear the tiara or hold the wand. Oh well.
And the Loot!
Anjuli is in Candy Heaven!
All the pretty colors are fun to play with :) Zion just doesn't know what to think about the stash.
Now what do we do will all this candy??!

4 comments:

Tane and Angela said...

what to do with the candy..stash it away from the kids and when they go to sleep EAT It! haha...love the pics!

Tiffany said...

Looks like you guys had a great time. Tosh was hot in his monkey suit too! Make leis, lots of leis!!

Jessica said...

Yummmmm. Candy! Charlotte got the idea after the first house and was LOVING it! It so much fun to see how they are with the holidays now. You guys got some good loot too!

Amanda Hardman said...

ok, so i heard about this on tv...the halloween fairy (a cousin to the tooth fairy). have your kids place all their candy (in a bag) next to their bed. then the "halloween fairy" comes that night and takes it away but leaves a present (a book, coloring book, crayons, necklace, toy, etc...) then you don't have to worry about the candy, but they still have something in return. i guess you're supposed to let them eat as much candy as they want for the first day or two...forever long comment, but i love this idea!!