Happy Hauntings

This Halloween was packed full of fun festivities.

We had school programs.
School parades.
Ward trunk or treats.
Cookie making at friends houses.
Getting "booed" multiple times.  oops!
Friends over for our annual Harvest Fest dinner and pumpkin carving.
Chili cook offs.
Trick or Treating.
The works.

I like to party.  I like having fun.  I love the fall.  The leaves are amazing!  I love love love the kids dressing up in costumes.  I love that the kids get into full character in their costumes (Thomas).  I laugh every time I see Lew as a space astronaut/alien.  The name changed often.  I love the creativity and the spirit of a holiday.

I am not trying to be a Debby Downer but, this year I started to feel like we take things overboard.
I feel like the two weeks leading up to Halloween we were booked and by the time Halloween night came and we were heading out to go trick or treating, we were exhausted.

Of course we were excited... but we already had 3 big buckets at home full of treats.  Not to mention we had probably eaten more candy in that one week than the rest of the year combined.  And we hadn't even hit the main event yet.
We had buckets full of fake teeth, play dough and spider rings.
We had already worn our costumes every single day that week.
And to be honest and real, we only lasted about 15 minutes before we had a melt down and had to go home.  A melt down over something silly because we were EXHAUSTED I tell you.
So we came home.  Turned on movie.  Snuggled.  Went to bed.
With tired exhausted hearts from all of our festivities.

I had to post these last pictures.  They lift my spirit and apparently my spirit needed lifting after that rant of a post.  This was the perfect costume for this little one.  He brought it to life!