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Trick or Treating

We have a Halloween tradition of getting together with the Steele's for a little dinner and a little trick or treating.

Isaiah and Emily are the bravest of the lot, always the first to the door and the first to find a new house to go to.

Ellen Steele is downright hysterical, coming back from every single house with an absolutely thrilled "Look what I got!!!"

Dave was "Super Dad". :)

Brennan went to two houses and was pretty satisfied with his two suckers for a long time. After maybe ten minutes, he decided maybe he'd start heading up to the door with the rest of the kids again. He came home with plenty of candy.

It's hard to tell in the picture, but Joel was happy to be himself again.

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We found this alien costume a couple days ago and Isaiah thought it was pretty great.

In true Isaiah fashion, he wanted to rip it apart and rework some parts of it to make it work a little better, but we just didn't get to it.

Ellen wanted to be Princess Leia again.

She loves the regal princess look.

And Brennan found a monkey costume which is, of course, perfect.

Joel was having a hard time napping and was therefore slightly unsure about all these shenanigans.

But by night time, he was a happy hotdog.

At least for a few minutes.

This is what they do when I say "Pretend you like each other." I have no idea what the face is, but they're all making it.

Halloween started off with Brennan being terrified of this whole trick or treat idea.

The Steele's came over so we could all get free candy together.

He got the hang of it soon enough.

The beautiful Princess Leia.

Someone's getting excited about all this free candy. Isaiah was loving this night. He and Emily were the main door openers when people rang our bell and they were also the primary doorbell ringers at other doors.

One house had a fog machine that Isaiah valiantly battled with his lightsaber/glo-stick.

(picture by Dave.)

Now he's into it.

So very very excited to get Mike & Ike's.

We had a lot of fun. The kids asked to be done several times. Each time we started walking home and they saw another porch light on, ran up to the door and on the way back asked to be done again. It was getting downright comical at the end there with feet dragging and then sentences trailing off mid-word when a light was noticed.

We got to spend Halloween with the Steele's. We went over to their place for some personal pizzas, some football watching and some trick or treating.

Isaiah was pretty excited about being able to have as many pepperonis as he wanted.

Ellen (or Ellers as my kids were thrilled to call her) was excited too. "Pizza!!!"

Brennan has become a huge huge Blazer fan since we took him to that game. He frequently shouts out "Let's Go Blazers" and he wears his Blazer hat often.

The Steele's had scouted out neighborhoods so we drove over to a good one for some trick-or-treating. Dave calls it the trick-or-treater's paradise. High density housing, affluent home owners and the houses are close to the curb.

I did some experimenting with shutting off the flash and turning up my ISO. I can't remember what that stands for, but the result is you can take pictures in the dark with no flash. They are rather grainy, or noisy, but I like that there isn't funky flash lighting. I'm not so much a fan of the funky flash light.

There was lots of running going on. "Look! There's a light on! This house this house!" So exciting.

(This, by the way is what the pictures look like before I converted them to black and white. They have a sort of orange cast - I don't know if that's because of the tone of the street lights, or there were just that many orange lights out, or if there's something else affecting it. I'm sure one of you knows much more than me about that subject.)

Isaiah was the brave kid who was perfectly willing to be the door bell ringer or knocker.

It was super fun.

We came home with a ton of candy. A ton. It was still early enough that we got a few trick or treaters so I was able to hand out some of our loot to the neighbor kids. Don't worry - all three ours chose several pieces to keep for another day before we put it in the give away bowl.

Halloween costumes

We found this alien costume a couple days ago and Isaiah thought it was pretty great.

In true Isaiah fashion, he wanted to rip it apart and rework some parts of it to make it work a little better, but we just didn't get to it.

Ellen wanted to be Princess Leia again.

She loves the regal princess look.

And Brennan found a monkey costume which is, of course, perfect.

Joel was having a hard time napping and was therefore slightly unsure about all these shenanigans.

But by night time, he was a happy hotdog.

At least for a few minutes.

This is what they do when I say "Pretend you like each other." I have no idea what the face is, but they're all making it.

Halloween started off with Brennan being terrified of this whole trick or treat idea.

The Steele's came over so we could all get free candy together.

He got the hang of it soon enough.

The beautiful Princess Leia.

Someone's getting excited about all this free candy. Isaiah was loving this night. He and Emily were the main door openers when people rang our bell and they were also the primary doorbell ringers at other doors.

One house had a fog machine that Isaiah valiantly battled with his lightsaber/glo-stick.

(picture by Dave.)

Now he's into it.

So very very excited to get Mike & Ike's.

We had a lot of fun. The kids asked to be done several times. Each time we started walking home and they saw another porch light on, ran up to the door and on the way back asked to be done again. It was getting downright comical at the end there with feet dragging and then sentences trailing off mid-word when a light was noticed.

Happy Halloween!!

We got to spend Halloween with the Steele's. We went over to their place for some personal pizzas, some football watching and some trick or treating.

Isaiah was pretty excited about being able to have as many pepperonis as he wanted.

Ellen (or Ellers as my kids were thrilled to call her) was excited too. "Pizza!!!"

Brennan has become a huge huge Blazer fan since we took him to that game. He frequently shouts out "Let's Go Blazers" and he wears his Blazer hat often.

The Steele's had scouted out neighborhoods so we drove over to a good one for some trick-or-treating. Dave calls it the trick-or-treater's paradise. High density housing, affluent home owners and the houses are close to the curb.

I did some experimenting with shutting off the flash and turning up my ISO. I can't remember what that stands for, but the result is you can take pictures in the dark with no flash. They are rather grainy, or noisy, but I like that there isn't funky flash lighting. I'm not so much a fan of the funky flash light.

There was lots of running going on. "Look! There's a light on! This house this house!" So exciting.

(This, by the way is what the pictures look like before I converted them to black and white. They have a sort of orange cast - I don't know if that's because of the tone of the street lights, or there were just that many orange lights out, or if there's something else affecting it. I'm sure one of you knows much more than me about that subject.)

Isaiah was the brave kid who was perfectly willing to be the door bell ringer or knocker.

It was super fun.

We came home with a ton of candy. A ton. It was still early enough that we got a few trick or treaters so I was able to hand out some of our loot to the neighbor kids. Don't worry - all three ours chose several pieces to keep for another day before we put it in the give away bowl.