Happy Halloween!

Well, another Halloween has come and gone. It was a pretty good day at work, which I left an hour early to slip in a Mt bike ride, get home and shower, and get ready for our Trick or Treaters! It was a BANNER YEAR for us....173 kids between 6:12 and 8:15pm (when I ran out of candy and turned off the lights). That's a new record...I THOUGHT we had plenty of candy (I give 2 pieces to each kid...nice pieces such as the little candy bars, etc). The babies had a BLAST hanging out at the door, hoping for the kids to pet them and make a general fuss over them (which they mostly did). Abbey especially was great...Sophie got scared at a few of the costumes and barked...the scariest was a kid dressed up as the clown in the NEW version of Stephen Kings "IT" (it was pretty scary actually, and it was a bigger kid too, not a tiny child!) She was NOT happy with that costume whatsoever!

And so...being as I haven't posted pics of them in a while, here are a few pictures of the babies.

 Here's Abbey trying to get closer to the candy-pot. She was hoping I wouldn't notice 

(she's got her front legs on the table).

Sophie is dressed up as a "dog" (hot dog-bull dog...get it? Sometimes I kill myself!)  

A side view of Ms. Abbey being BAD. She is a cutie tho and gets away with a lot.

Side view of Sophie. She was really calm this year, except for the few costumes that startled her...otherwise she was really great! A lot of kids pet them both (which they LOVED!)

Abbey keeping a sharp eye out for kids (before they started, our first kid was at 6:12pm). 

Here she's again watching the candy bowl. She's really good at guarding things with food in them!

Here they're waiting patiently for the next kids to arrive.

Taking a time-out from door-guard, resting on the rug (guarding the door is hard work apparently!)

Sophie caught me taking their picture.

Nearing the end, Abbey is all tuckered out. Getting petted by a bunch of 

Trick or Treaters must really be draining!

 Our fireplace mantle decorations: Jeannie found a string of scary pumpkin lights, and we entwined them in a nice double strand of fall color leaves. On the right is her "Haggatha" witch that she got when she was in Salem Mass a few years back.

 

And this is what it looks like lit up (the camera kind of ruins the glow, they don't look that bright in real life...just a kind of soft spooky glow). This all comes down TOMORROW.

And so....another Halloween is in the books. We had really great weather (as usual, we ARE in California after all). Probably right around 60 when I turned off the lights...not too shabby. 

Hope your Halloween was scary fun like ours!

Cheers!