Happy Halloween

Halloween was nice this year!  The weather was perfect- not the raining/sleeting/wear-your-heavy-winter-coat-over-your-costume weather I remember from my childhood- more like 70° and sunny. 

So nice, I may have actually gotten a slight tan planting my fall bulbs this afternoon. 

Around dinner time, we headed over to grandma & papa Dow's house, where there's always plenty of the trick-or-treating action every year.  We visited two of the neighbor houses, but didn't venture much further... not until Kaden has a better grasp of what's going on.

I was able to get a bit more mileage out of my costume.  Ben chose NOT to dress up.  Shocker.

Lucky for him, I found the ole' "greaser" wig at his parents' house that I forced upon him.  Tee-hee.

It didn't dawn on us what Ben should have been until a little trick-or-treater pointed to Kaden and exclaimed, "Hey, it's Curious George!" Then it hit me, Ben should have been the Man in the Yellow Hat carrying Kaden around. Next time? Next monkey costume opportunity? Next kid?

Someday we'll really get it together...

Ben & his dad mostly watched the Rangers in game 4 of the World Series while Shanny & I passed out candy.  Kaden did his thing and ate his animal crackers.

The Craighead & Dow families

I absolutely loved Jay's "Woody" costume from Toy Story. 

(He even had the giant pull-string that Deana fashioned & attached to his back.)