Halloween, AKA Best Holiday EVER

This Halloween, we made the switch from DC to Marvel: 

Wolverine and Captain America to the rescue!

The boys were so excited about Halloween that they picked out their costumes sometime around Labor Day, and wore them many, many times around the house before Halloween finally arrived.  I am endlessly amused by the boys when they are playing superheroes (they have made me a firm believer in alter-egos, as evidenced by the change in Joergen the moment he puts on a mask!), and I dread the day when they outgrow this phase.

Dad and I realized that it had been a couple of years since we had actually carved a pumpkin, so we were long overdue!

Making their best "jack-o-lantern faces"

Halloween fell on a Friday this year, and I am now advocating that Halloween be celebrated every year on a Friday.  It was a blast!!  It started when we got home from work and Aunt Doreen's that day.  Liam and Joergen were beyond excited to find a basket on our doorstep with their name on it, full of safe, non-food Halloween "treats" for them to enjoy!  Thank you Theresa and Ed for the most thoughtful gift ever!

After a quick dinner, it was time to suit up and get on the road for some treats.

Annual Halloween photo op with Aunt Doreen

Captain America twins!  Liam and our neighbor Will

 We started the evening by going to our old neighborhood to see Miss Anita and drop by our old house (which looks fantastic, by the way!), and then to see a choir friend, and finally to go see Theresa at her boyfriend Michael's house.

After all that running around, it was time to park the car and hoof it around the neighborhood.  It was a cool, gorgeous evening, and tons of kids came out to trick-or-treat well into the night.  I've never seen our boys so happy!  After almost every house, I would hear Joergen say something like, "Wow. That was a stranger and they gave me a tweat.  That was so kind of dem." Or Liam, who must have said 100 times that night, "Best. Holiday. EV-ERRRR!"

While all of this was going on, a mini block party was forming in our neighbor's driveway across the street.  Before long, we all decided to turn off our own porch lights and distribute candy all together out of that one driveway.  It was perfect: a one-stop-shop for tons of kids, while the adults stayed warm by a fire and enjoyed an adult beverage or two.

When Liam and Joergen decided their bags were heavy enough, I brought them inside to sort candy in preparation for the Great Pumpkin to come take all the unsafe stuff away.  They were excited to discover that Milk Duds are safe, and subsequently disappointed by how badly Milk Duds get stuck in their teeth :)  Regardless, they walked away with an impressive haul-- and will have plenty of candy well into the new year!