Welcome to another edition of Halloween on Sloan Creek! This year’s theme: “Candy Swap.” Yup, that’s right. We have now reached the point where there are more than a handful of children in the neighborhood. And all of us were out in force tonight. However, the amount of candy in everyone’s candy dishes outside never seemed to diminish. Why? Because we were all “regifting.” Trick or treat, go home and dump out your candy in your community candy bowl, and move on. Yikes. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to play this game as we entered the contest a little late. So the Speer household is up to our collective candy eyeballs in candy. And the holiday candy parade has only begun…
On to a more pleasant note, we had a wonderful Halloween this year. I admit being a little stressed, wanting so badly to trick-or-treat the whole neighborhood AND attend a carnival. Wednesdays are busy days for me anyway, but somehow I managed to get quite a bit of housework done (which always puts me in a happy place) amidst the busyness. My mom showed up at about 4:30 to visit with us before heading over to the carnival at First Baptist Allen. Their carnival started at 5:30 and we were there by about 5:40. The whole thing (except for the food and the preschool play area) was outside in the parking lot. There were several inflatables, plus really cool games with prizes. Crisana won a chocolate cheese kiss cake at the cake walk and Trey won a DVD in the door prize drawings. The whole atmosphere was so fun and organized. I loved seeing all the seniors and youth involved in running booths, and everyone seemed to be having a really good time. We’ll definitely go back next year.
Mom left about 6:40 to go home before it got too dark and we bumped into some old PCBC friends as we were heading out, so we didn’t get home until about 7:00 to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood. We got started and visited all of Phase 1 and all but the very back end of Phase 2 before it was time to head home. We got to see lots of other kids and families trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, and revisit many neighbors, some of who are brand-new to the development. We came home to way too much candy left in our basket outside, and overflowing bags of our own. But we had a great time…the kids were happy, and our tummies were full.
Here are a few pictures of our memorable evening.
Our cute trick-or-treaters ready to go!
Pretty Princess Belle.
To infinity and beyond!
Buzz Lightyear in action!
Sharing a hug with Grandma
Wow! Halloween looked like lots of fun. The girls are definitely in the princess mode now. Although Alexis Crisana was dressed as a cat for her first trick-or-treating ,she carried a princess treat bag. Alexis especially loves Princess Ariel.