Trunk or Treat 2008

This is actually the end of the night. After collecting their loot, the kids like to sample the goods. We also like to hang out and visit for a few minutes before heading home.

This is one of the very few pictures I caught of Lylee in her little pixie hat.

Taylor really, really wanted to be a ghost. I kept trying to get him to pick something else and even bought another costume, but he still wanted to be a ghost.

Grandma Vicki decided that Taylor should really be a ghost if that's what he really, really wanted. It was kind of like a kid asking Santa for something, then writing Santa letters, telling everyone that he knows and those that he doesn't that he is going to be a ghost for Halloween.

The costume is amazing. I wish that you could see the details up clost. It has two layers, the bottom is out of this sparkly white fabric and then it has an amazing cape that is lined and and made out of this really spooky cheese cloth stuff with a hood. We had white paint for his face, and black for around for around his eyes, but this just was not going to happen last night.

He also wore tennis shoes under his costume in honor my Grandma Jones and the ghost that lived in her attic. The ghost's name was Ching-a-ling and the one time that a few of were blessed enough to actually see Ching-a-ling he or she was wearing my grandma's tennis shoes. (This is a very cherished memory for me as a kid).

These are our nieghbor friends that came with us, Terrell and his sister Jaida. Jaida is one of Taylor's favorite friends in the whole world!

This is Lylee being herself. She looks so very innocent, but do you see that mischievious little glint in her eye?

We had a very fun night with family, ward family and friends. Daddy even got to come, which doesn't happen often.

Unfortunately, Taylor was sneaking as we were Trunk or Treating and became very sick from the corn and the dyes in the candy. (We were planning on letting him trade in his candy for a new game.) We are now detoxing and trying to treat the hives, itches, tantrums and the hyper-activity.

Lesson learned.