Halloween

Cole and Zach had a very good Halloween here in Lovetown. The weather was perfect, just a bit cool, but no jacket required. The extra hour of daylight thanks to extended DST was a welcome bonus too. We normally start trick or treating in the dark, but they were almost done by the time the sun set around 7:00.

I walked with the kids through our neighborhood, and Pam stayed back at the ranch and passed out the goodies to our visitors. At the beginning they had big plans to knock off all the houses in our neighborhood and then cross the street to another set of houses. But after an hour plus of hoofing around, they felt like heading home without the trek to another neighborhood. (It was probably almost 3 miles of walking since our 70+ houses aren't that close together.) Maybe it was a combination of tiredness and eagerness to tear into the candy.

Zach was Darth Vader and Cole was the "The Scream" from the famous Edvard Munch painting.

Both were pretty intimidating. One of the smaller neighborhood kids was scared of Darth and would cry and run to his dad whenever Zach walked by. Cole's mask was attached to a "pumping heart" which would pump dripping blood into the top of his mask. Several of the adult candy givers thought the blood dripping was pretty cool.

Most of the readers here saw these already, but I wanted to post them for historical purposes too.