Halloween!

Ah yes... Halloween... an interesting holiday in El Paso. Our neighborhood always has a huge influx of trick-or-treaters from other parts of the city because it's safe here, we have clear sidewalks, and there are tons of houses, most of which participate. We're a popular destination for apartment-dwellers, and those who live in bad neighborhoods.

It does make it interesting. As we were leaving our house to take Erin and Orren trick-or-treating, we were practically pushed out of the way by crowds of high schoolers who mobbed our door, totally ignoring me saying "We're leaving. We're not home. No candy here yet. Come back in half an hour." repeatedly. It was nuts. I also really don't like how old a lot of the kids are who are trick-or-treating. If a crowd comes up where all the boys are taller than me and all the girls have giant boobs, I'm thinking they're too old to be trick-or-treating. I just don't like it. It's for the kids. High schoolers have no business trick-or-treating. We even had a group drive up in a car, park at the curb, jump out, walk up and collect candy from us, and then drive to the next house. We can't really NOT give them candy because the only person I know who has ever done that also got her windshield smashed that night. Granted, she lives in off post Army housing, which is in a totally disgusting part of town, but when you consider that most of the kids who trick-or-treat our neighborhood aren't FROM our neighborhood, and a lot are from bad parts of town, it's better safe than sorry. Candy is cheaper than a new windshield.

Erin and Orren had fun, though. We only trick-or-treated one street, both sides. Orren was pretty spent after that, and while Erin would have continued, she was just as happy to go home and hand out candy to other people who came by. It's like I told Thak, it's not about getting ten tons of candy. It's just about letting the kids dress up and have a good time. They did have a good time, and they were totally adorable, and then they got totally sugar buzzed when we got home and they ate candy until they went to bed, and now they've both crashed, and are asleep.

Anyhow, without further ado, here are some pictures:

Erin southern belle, and Orren Spiderman, ready to go trick-or-treating. This is the only pic I could get of them. They were all over the place!

Thak did our jack-o-lanterns this year. These are the pumpkins we got in La Union, NM. They're so big!