Halloween 2008

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. The boys dressed up as BSU Football player. The hockey-player-dressed-as-a-football-player idea was quickly forgotten when Jake realized he wouldn't be able to wear his football helmet with the mask on. However, the mask (as you can see) did not got to waste .

Tanner really got into trick-or-treating (much to our surprise) and loudly shouted, "TRICK OR TREAT! GO BOISE STATE! YEAH!!" at every door. He stayed out with Jake and I till the bitter end- walking the whole way and asking, "Just one more house, Mom, please???" as it got later. He was scared of the house that played spooky noises, but other than that he was game for the whole thing.

Faith was a black cat. Nana had brought her the cosume earlier in the week and she loved dragging it around the house and saying "MEOW!"- wanting to take it to bed with her at night but not wanting to put it on at all. When it was time to get ready to go she saw that I was going to try to put her in the costume and she hid behind our stools, crying. I forced her in it (put another dollar in the therapy jar- as my sister would say..... ) and she was ready to go.

The concept of"knocking on doors and asking for candy" really appealed to her, too. The first house we went to she walked right in, past the lady holding the candy, and would have gone right into their kitchen and joined in the party had we not dragged her out. She also walked most of the way, and went to way more houses than either Jake or Tanner went to when they were her age. She came home early with Brian and proceeded to dump out her loot and talk to herself- oohing and aahhing over the bounty before she got scared upon answering the door for a scary trick-or-treater and promptly asked to go to bed.