Halloween has come and gone and the demons lost foothold again!

Although, I'm not completely sure about that. My point is, everyone in the neighborhood had fun and none of the kids in our neighborhood seemed to become demon possessed during the holiday. I think we might have turned the corner and it's now just a time for kids to have fun. I don't think the devil giggles every year knowing he has a night all to himself to enslave the unaware. He already has the world in his grasp anyway.

My son-in-law packed his kids up in his truck, invited a few around him to come over too and took them all on a hayride in my trailer. He wanted to do my neighborhood because it's a bit more compact than his and requires less walking. The kids were all dressed up in their spookiest and cutest costumes and had a great time extorting candy from our neighbors.

I didn't dress up (although I'm going to next year), but I did decorate our porch and run a smoke machine. A lot of the parents were impressed and some of the younger ones were a bit scared of it, but it was a nice effect. I'm going to add a bit more to the whole scene next year. Seems like every year I walk away from each holiday with better ideas for the next year. I guess that's normal, but I wish I would get into the season a bit more before it actually arrived. I always seem so unprepared. I keep putting off any effort until their right on top of me and them I'm scramblin' to get everything done. Then I miss stuff. Oh well, it's not like I'm trying to win a contest or anything, just want to make it fun for the kids.

Speaking of that, I think they had as much fun running the smoke machine as anything. I let our kids push the button before they went off hunting for tricks and they fought over doing it. The 2 year old had the most fun with it. He liked the hanging lights too. In fact, I was afraid he was going to knock them down, but they hung in there. Having a 2 year old around is so much fun.They're so easy to impress and entertain. On the other hand, they don't have a very long attention span so you have to stay sharp to stay ahead of them.

The only way I could distract him from the lights was to give him candy. Everytime he would turn back to them I would say, "want some more candy Hunter?" and he would spin around and  say "more PawPaw". No problem keeping their attention when you have candy around.

So, Saturday night was a success. Sunday was nice because we took a nap after church and then visited my mom and my son in the evening. It's always nice getting to visit with everyone.