Trick or Treat!

I love Halloween it is probably my 2nd favorite holiday next to Christmas. We let Matthew play hooky from school yesterday to go with Jerry to the Southwest Airlines trick or treat party at Love Field. Jerry works for Honeywell but works onsite at SWA so gets to participate in all of the fun SWA events. They actually have one floor of cubicles turned into a haunted house. Jerry said it freaked him out a bit but he was a trooper. Here are some pics of him at Jerry's work yesterday.

Oh and by the way, he insisted on being a friendly ghost. We found this costume online and he loved it. We got so many compliments on his "old school" costume yesterday. He thought he was scary but everybody else thought he was adorable!




I was a little bummed that we could not do the i2 Halloween party this year but it was just logistically impossible. Bianca had a test so I could not pull her out early. By the time she got out of school, got ready, drove to i2 offices in Dallas we just would not have enough time to make it back this way to the Halloween party at my granny's retirement home. Instead I worked from home and made Halloween dinner of Chili, cornbread casserole and pumpkin dump cake. I had to make sure they had a good dinner before consuming the massive amounts junk the rest of the night, LOL.

At 6 we headed to my Granny's retirement home for trick or treating. Bianca won first prize in the kids costume contest and Granny won first prize in the resident costume contest. Both were thrilled!



Next we headed home for our neighborhood trick or treat festivities with the neighbors. Our neighborhood was so packed with kids by the time we got back we had alot of catching up to do!




I love that Halloween was not on school night. After we were done trick or treating the kids played outside with the neighbors until 10:30. Here is Jerry being silly wearing Matthew's costume :-)



So today I started packing away the Halloween decorations and getting out the Thanksgiving decorations. Matthew was so excited this morning saying it's time for Christmas, LOL! He is so his mother's son, but I told him we had to have Thanksgiving first. He said he does not like Turkey so he just wants to move to Christmas now. I would if my husband would not totally kill me. We have Thanksgiving at our house this year again for 25 people so I cannot have Christmas decorations up! I've thought about putting up one of the trees early (just the tree though nothing else) I've already started Christmas shopping and I've bought some Christmas ornaments already but Jerry has no idea :-)