Trick or Treat

We waited 31 days to celebrate and now it has come and gone.

Everyone came over last night to enjoy some dinner and Halloween festivities. Before you could enter, you needed to guess the number of "seeds" in the "pumpkin" (white chocolate chips in an orange balloon). Once in, we gobbled up some Cincinnati chili and chicken tortilla soup. After dinner, the winner of the guessing game was revealed...HC with a guess of 26! Total number of seeds was 27.

The kids played for a bit and orange rice crispy treats were eaten. Before we headed to the neighbors for a quick candy consumption, the brave guests dipped their hands into a mysterious bowl of goop.

Growing up, a Sunday activity we would play was "Haunted House". Now that I think of it, it wasn't the best way to keep the Sabbath day holy but we weren't fighting so that was good. We would put a blanket over the end of the hallway so it was dark and turned that 20 feet into a Haunted House. One thing we always did was make a bowl of goop that we had to put our hands in. The goop from last night consisted of grapes, maraschino cherries & juice, cheese, flour, spaghetti, ketchup and mayonnaise. Amy won that game too, guessing 4 of the correct items.

I originally wanted to dress The Lime up as a Lion but that fell through last week. The next costume idea was a Garden Gnome.

At one point last night, he did have red suspenders on. And surprisingly, he didn't rip the beard to shreds.

I'm sad it's time to take the decorations down, especially because I don't have any Thanksgiving ones to put up. But in just 3 short weeks, Christmas decorations will be coming out of the wazoo!