Happy Halloween!

It was a Friday night for Halloween this year and U of I planned their Dad's Weekend on it too (who does that?) so I was solo managing Hailey's Halloween activities while trying to hand out candy at our new house. Luckily, Peyton's Halloween party was on Saturday so she helped man the door when I had to run Hailey to meet her friends and when I made a quick run to the store for more Halloween candy. 

I wasn't sure what kind of numbers to expect trick or treating. On Tuttle, we got a pretty steady stream of trick or treaters - 120-150 I would say. But where we are now, we are sort of tucked away in the northwest corner of Hinsdale. So I bought 120 full size bars (I've done full size since COVID when we had someone to hand them out instead of going trick or treating with our young kids and leaving a bowl out). I wasn't sure if 120 would be too many or too few but the kids came in droves. I mean groups of 15-20 kids. It was so busy that by 5pm I was panicking that we were going to run out of candy with about 30 bars left. I left Peyton in charge and headed to the store to arm myself with even more candy. I was gone for about 40 minutes and called Peyton on my way back to see how the numbers were looking. By this time it's almost 6pm and she said it had slowed down quite a bit after I left. Of course. And it slowed down even more once I got home. By the end of trick or treating, we had about 12 of my original candy purchase left. 

But you know if I didn't go to find more we would have had even more trick or treaters and being the new people, we couldn't run out of candy our first year on the block! 

Hailey did a lot of walking with her group of six from Clarendon Hills to our house and then I drove them back. She was gone from 4pm-11:30pm. She either gave most of her candy away or ate it all or they didn't have any real interest in ringing people's doorbells because her bag was the lightest that I've ever seen for any of my kids on October 31. But she was happy. Dressed as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh while some of her friends dressed as My Little Pony (she told me she was not doing that). 

Peyton dressed up as Cinderella for her Halloween party the next day although I did not take her picture. I should have to - she looked so pretty! But I do have one with her and friends so you can get an idea of her costume.

Austen said he had a lot of fun for Halloween Weekend with Tom. I guess there's a weekend before Halloween that's huge at U of I and then this one too. They went to the bars, went to the fraternity (Austen pledged Phi Psi - and in a few short weeks should actually be a full member) and went to the game and some bars. But the best part of the weekend Austen said was getting food with his Dad. That kid is starving! Just a few short weeks til he's home for Thanksgiving and he can eat some good food!

A busy but good Halloween for all 3 kids! 

Peyton and friends!

Hailey and friends!

Phi Psi Halloween Party