Halloween is my favorite holiday, but I was under the weather more often than not this year during the season. We still managed to do most of the required festivities, though.
I took Anda to the pumpkin patch down the road which had a corn pit,
petting zoo,
hay maze,
and, of course, pumpkins.
I drew a few designs for Anda to pick from, and she went with the "scary" face (in the middle). We also have a Cowboys pumpkin and my go-to skeleton face.
I insisted that Dan and Hannah sign up for the Halloween Half Marathon with me this year. I ended up getting the stomach flu and puking 8 times on Thursday night, and was still not feeling up to it by Saturday morning, but they both did great. Dan was in the top 200 of 4000 and 13th in his age division.
Hannah was pretty mad at me in that last tenth of a mile, but she finished strong and did have her friend, Anneli, to help her through.
On Sunday night, we got invited to Dan's uncle and aunt's family party. We missed out on trunk or treating because of my stomach flu, so I was really excited to have a reason to put on Anda's costume.
Dan did a good job with his last minute rock star get up, but my librarian was less than stellar. Remember, I had been really sick.
I didn't think Anda would love anything more than the dressed up dogs,
but then the dancing began. This poor girl got to be Anda's dance partner pretty much the whole night. She was pretty sweet about it.
At the end of the night, we went to their neighbor's house to see their haunted house/decorations. I have never seen anything like this! For 25 years this woman has constructed a professional level spook house for the neighborhood kids for free. I didn't get any good pictures, so I stole a couple from Teresa's Facebook page.
It was really an awesome Halloween party.
Halloween night was pretty anticlimactic, but I think we were all okay with that. Anda was not terribly interested in putting her costume on and neither Dan nor I were terribly interested in forcing her to do so. His foot got hurt pretty badly in that race and I was feeling under the weather again, so we gave her a couple of pieces of candy from our own cauldron and called it good. I got a 5 pound bag of the good mini candies, but our house is in the no-man's-land of our neighborhood, so our doorbell rang a grand total of 3 times. We are not hurting for leftover Halloween candy here, trick-or-treating or not.
