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The weekend began with making for the spooky but that sort of went awry due to not only the rain but winds. Wind + rain = no luminaries and no candles and that just isn’t fun and did not play into my decorating ideas so the front porch was a bust.

I set out my tried and true carved foam pumpkins and plugged them in and made the best of it.

The kids were excited. Gracie was meeting up with some of her friends from school and Steve was taking Steven out. Getting everyone in costume was a bit rushed but fun and filled with giggles.

Steven wouldn’t call Steve “Robin” or “The Boy Wonder”. He had somehow decided that Steve was in fact dressed as Barnacle Boy from Sponge Boy. So, in the delighted mind of a three year old he went out trick or treating dressed as a super hero with Barnacle Boy at his side. Gotta love it!

Steven only walked about 40 minutes or just long enough to get about half of his bag filled with candy then he was ready to come home. Done. Completely finished. He and Steve then took over handing out candy.

Gracie was as gorgeous as ever in her pink poodle skirt. She skipped along excited to meet her friends. She was also delighted by all the older people who told her they once wore a skirt just like hers. She was also thrilled with her candy haul.

This is the only photo of me from Saturday night. Believe me the photo makes me look like I am thinner than I really am. There must have been a spooky spell on the camera. Yes, the low carb is working, but it isn’t working that fast! I wish I was already as thin as this photo suggests!

We ran out of candy at about 8:30. We cleaned up the porch quickly, closed the door and turned off the light.

And kids kept coming.

All we had was some junky candy Steve had forgotten to mix in with the good candy so they got a handful of suckers. After unlocking the door for the fourth time and trying to find something for kids knocking we shut down all the lights in the front of the house and didn’t go back to the door.

I know we suck. But what do you do when you run out of candy?

I think everyone had a great night.

Do you get very many kids trick or treating?

Did you dress up?

Tomorrow I’ll tell you what we did with our ‘extra’ hour and show you the cookies Gracie baked.