Brian's first ever Halloween treat and probably his 3rd chocolate ever!
- It seems Aussies adopted the 'candy buying' a lot more this year. Sunday afternoon the individually wrapped bags of chocolate bars section of the grocery store was completely bare.
- Most of my friends had no visitors. One had visitors on both Saturday and Sunday, she was completely unprepared.
- I love the sense of community trick or treating brings out.
- Parent's have no control over what's behind the door and some costumes are pretty scary.
- Even as a candy lover the sheer amounts of candy kids bought home scared me.
- I rarely step out of my comfort zone, so dressing up in a fun costume (Kevin included) sounds kind of like a fun and different idea. Especially now as I'm sure the look on Brian's face would be priceless.
- Next year's Halloween will (sadly?) be spent the same way as this year's.
How we spent our Halloween:
- Brian and I decorated the front entrance.
- He was pretty scared of the big spider (only because he's seen the real thing).
- I wrapped up some candy 'just in case'.
- Brian played with the candy in the bucket but wasn't into taking the paper off and/or eating it (thankfully).
- I made Brian go to the front door and say "trick or treat".
- I then said "I may have a treat for you. Can you find it?" It was hidden in one of the decorations.
- He was super excited and got to open and eat his little package.
- Kevin came home to find a big bag of treats all packaged up for him and I. At first he pretended not to notice.
- No one knocked on the door, so those treats were added to ours.
- The next morning I packed up the decorations and put them back into the cupboard. Short and sweet, really.
Sounds like a great time!! And so nice Brian was so involved! **But Brooke... he definitely needs more chocolate. If I could, I would send tuns of chocolate his way hehe, but I'm sure the people at border services would eat them instead. It's too bad we can't ship food to Australia~
ReplyDeleteSome quick notes about our Halloween night... old ladies dressed as witches trick or treating, kids coming back for seconds, a young girl telling me she didn't like the type of chips we were giving out and if there was an alternative, a teenager came to the door with a box on his head which simply read "I'm doing you a favor". Doors opened at 5:30 with our first guest, and we ran out at 7:30 with having over 150 kids (and after digging into Peyton's candy dish for things she wouldn't eat to give back out). It was a lot of fun, but we weren't prepared for that many kids, and poor Peyton was a little scared with the spooky noises, but she just loved getting chocolate!
Costumes?? If so, do tell. Next year I'll be taking the girls out, so maybe we'll go as a theme (like princesses).
Love the post!
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The British don't really take on Halloween either but we still buy sweets and pumpkins just in case haha.
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