How to stay warm on Halloween

Halloween has never been one of my favorite days.  Perhaps because growing up in Utah, most Halloweens we either had to bundle up so many layers under our costumes or where a coat over it.  Many years we actually had to trudge through snow up hill both ways with holes in our snow boots.

Well, those days are over!  Welcome to Halloween in the South.  The weather was a balmy 70 degrees in fact, Vinny, the one with the blue bunny slippers actually got hot early on with her robe on. She and two friends, Kathryn with no robe, and Robi (Roberts is her full name, a perfect friend for Vinny) in the middle were sleep over girls.  Robi's dad Dave and Charlie took the girls out while Robi's mom Peggy came over to help me pass out candy and stay warm.

Mitchell wanted to be a skateboarder, no surprise here.  I told him no, you are a skateboarder every day.  Why not be a skate board?  He loved the idea!  Then I had to actually come up with the skateboard costume.  The wheels are not quite proportioned with the board but other than that I think it looks pretty good.

Here he is with his very good friend Michelle who was the cutest pirate in all of South Carolina.  Notice her coatless attire.

I put the word "SKATE" on the front just in case no one knew what he was.  This was a big year for him; I let him go out alone.  Well, not alone, but with a group of friends.

You may be wondering what Patrick was this year.  He was too old.  So, he stayed home and helped me run the cd player with scary music.  Halloween in our neighborhood is like nothing I have ever experienced.  I had heard it was big but nothing prepared me for this night.  The police actually shut down the entrance to our subdivision to all traffic so you can only walk.  I went through over 800 pieces of candy, yes, 800!  We were giving 2 out at a time but toward the end of the night we started giving one at a time.  The trick or treating starts at 5:30 and ends promptly at 8:30.  Don't think you can answer the door and close it and then answer it a few minutes later.  No, no, they never stopped coming.  So Peggy and Linda (Michelle's mom) and I took our pitcher of Margaritas to the front porch and just sat there.  We needed the margaritas in case it ever got cold.  If it did, we never noticed. 

The most interesting costume of the night belonged to a 3 month old baby.  Her father spent 3 months building this carriage around a baby jogger for her.  The man has way too much time on his hands.