Halloween!

Posing for the camera.

Riley was a hippie girl and Jeremy was Buz Lightyear.

Halloween was on a Sunday this year, which worked out well for the kids. Seeing as our town's trick-or-treat hours were 2-8 (is it just me, or is that a bit much?), we started out for gathering candy around 3. We traveled around the neighborhood with some great neighbor friends. We've done ToT with them for the last two years, so this was somewhat of a tradition. The girls had so much fun, but the boys got tired quickly. We opted not to bring the wagon this year, simply because the boys, we thought, were old enough to walk the whole way through.

Obligatory photo with Mom.

Sadly, this was NOT Phil's Halloween costume!

Yeah, they were tired before we got to the end of the block!

Our ToT friends. She was Pebbles,
and he was Marvin the Martian.

The three neighbor girls. We actually borrowed
Riley's costume from the little girl on the left.

We even had to figure whose turn it was to ring the doorbell. The poor boys had a hard time keeping up with the girls. We made it around the block, and then headed home. I dropped off Jeremy with Phil (who had stayed behind to hand out candy), and Riley wanted to go out more. I had to carry her candy bucket, because it broke due to all the candy!

Overall, ToT was a rousing success. And what's even better that the kids share with mom and dad. It's really a win-win.