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Tricks or treats, money or eats, you blockhead!

At long last...the Boo Montoh!

We reached maximum candy capacity even before Halloween night. We trunk or Treated, we went to a rockin Halloween party, Greta partied at preschool while Jack and I haunted the aisles of Target in costume. Starting the week before Halloween I filled the kids "spooky boxes" with monster crafts and scary treats for them to find each morning. And then came the actual trick or treating and the Lytle's Monster Mash. For two years now, we have started the night with Chili and mummy dogs out by the fire in the driveway with spooky Scooby Doo projected on the house and then go door to door. The weather could not have been better, it was warm and clear. The kids are getting older and watching them run up to each house was absolutely surreal to me. I remember so well the feeling of this exciting night. I remember each costume I wore year to year and the perfect pumpkins my parents carved. I remember the weather and the starry skies and running through wet grass and leaves. I remember what houses were scary and which ones gave you walnuts or pennies. I remember the smell of sweet success at the end of the night, sticking my head into my orange pumpkin to inhale the chocolate, and sugar glory before dumping it out to see with my own eyes and picking what would be eaten first and what would be saved for tomorrow. It is always a happy Halloween.

Halloween Bath

It was spooky and glowy oh, so cool. Take some glow sticks and jump into the tub with the lights out. We did this for our Halloween bath and what fun it was to have something new to keep their minds off of...."how much longer until Trick or Treat?"

Boo.