Halloween Haunting at its best

Our family Halloween photo. A skater, monster, princess pirate, angel and doctor. (You can guess who is who.) What a crew!

Our little pumpkin. . . fully equipped with a bright shining smile!

Our little "mousy" and little angel

Trunk or treating at the church. Maleia opted for the "Princess Pirate" costume that Haley wore last year. . . Pirate with a tu-tu.

Phew! What a crazy Halloween Day. Cute Chapman boys all tuckered out.

Halloween = free candy. And who doesn't like free candy?! We did go trick or treating and had to avoid all the lawns with scary decorations, had to pick up the girls when they saw older kids in their masks and bloody faces, and had to run away from a house that had scary music and fog coming from it. Okay, so Halloween isn't all fun and games, but at least my girls earned their candy. Phew! Maleia would have been fine with the first sucker she got. . . that's all she ate all night anyway. And Haley was done shortly after we saw (more like ran like the dickens away from) the house with the scary music. :) After 30 minutes of hard labored trick-or-treating, we were on the way to a friend's house for dinner and Haley asked, "What does "tricker" mean?" I gave a stammering explanation of how we are asking people to give us a trick or a treat. "But I just want a treat,"responds my intuitive 4 year old. And all I had to say was, "Well, it's a good thing that we went to all the nice houses, then." Then she added, "maybe it's a trick when they give us yucky candy or don't come to the door when we ring the doorbell." -Maybe we need a lesson on gratitude. :)