B/C I Heart Halloween

A random Thursday post which includes some Halloween pictures because I do really love Halloween.  And since Halloween is gone every store is now full on Christmas.  Harper went on a small rant in Target yesterday about how she doesn’t like people skipping over Thanksgiving.  I kind of agree.  Although I live with Josh Kelley who wants to put up our Christmas tree right now.  So I’m still living in last Friday.

We tried doing some trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, but after a few houses and some epic Halloween fails we decided to ditch our own and head over to hang with some friends.  We’re lucky in the fact we have friends who don’t mind us crashing their festivities with 4 children.

My favorite moment of the night was when Hudson hopped in the car and said, “I can’t wait to eat this chocolate Santa.”  Whaaaattt????  A chocolate Santa.  Harper then replied with, “Yeah, I got a Reeces shaped like a Christmas tree.”  So yeah, one house gave out last years Christmas candy.  Josh Kelley and I laughed pretty hard.  We thought by chance this might have been this years Christmas candy, but alas with further inspection all the Christmas candy given out had expired in July.  We can’t make this stuff up.

This was Amon’s first year to actually participate in Halloween which made us laugh and want to go crazy because he was kind of a hot mess.  My friend Ashely brought me an entire baseball uniform for him to wear because she’s awesome and knows I could use all the help I can get.  He loved dressing up, he loved going door to door and yet was freezing and on multiple occasions made his way into strangers houses.  This meant Josh or myself issuing lots of apologies and pulling him from strangers homes.  Amon does not know a stranger and in no way honors personal space EVER.

 He also got into an intense conversation with an older lady who had a dog.  He lingered far too long at this house and Josh had to go in and get him.  Then there was the house where all the big kids came back, but not Amon.  I finally went up to see what the hold up was and there he sat cowering in full panic behind the home owner who was consoling him and passing out candy to the scary dressed teens on his front porch.  We’ve got several of those #1 Dad and #1 Mom mugs 🙂

And then there was the house where Harper reported back that Amon upon energetically bounding onto the front porch knocked over the home owners table which held the bowl of candy and let’s just all thank God for Harper Kelley because she helped get it all picked up and apologized on his behalf like the responsible first child she is.

So Halloween was a riot.  Too much fun.  Hilariously hilarious and yet when arriving back home Josh and I felt like we’d ran a marathon.  Amon was toast…ready for bed and couldn’t have gotten in it quick enough.

Happy Thursday.