Halloween

We had a great Halloween. Personally, I'm not an active Halloween-y participant. I can count on one hand the times I've actually taken kids Trick or Treating. I'm not against it, I'm just not a huge candy person. And tramping around in the cold with sugar-hyped kids does nothing for the experience, either. But since Spencer was around, we did a lot of "festive" things. We made sugar cookies with Grandma, put together worthwhile costumes and Spencer took the kids Trick or Treating. I still got out of it! I did all the work getting costumes in order.

This was the best picture I could get. And I like the guy in front, too! From left to right, we have: a blood-thirsty doctor, a pumpkin, Dash Incredible and a vampire. Spencer wouldn't take the kids trick or treating if he had to dress up. I thought it was a fair compromise. Mairyn's costume, though, is my favorite. Two nights before Halloween, she lost her other front tooth, making perfect fangs. Someone even thought they were fake. She just loved the make-up and snarling.

Halloween also included the traditional homemade chicken noodle soup and making homemade root beer with dry ice. Dry ice is so fun. I think it's kind of like safe fire. The bubbling, volatile chunk of white ice, creating the never-ending "smoke". Fun times. I did have to send Spencer back to Iraq today, though. Not to end on a sour note, but that's today's update.