Trick-or-Treating

We had some serious pirates, out to get some serious candy tonight!!

We all started out together and I had planned to take Kyle around a little bit and then when he got tired I'd take him home and he and I could hand out candy at our house while Dave trailed Brandon & Eric as they ran all over the neighborhood, filling their pillow cases with candy.  But Kyle just kept on going and a lot of the time he was the one leading the way.  I kept saying, once we get around this corner I will take him home but he was having so much fun and didn't want to stop so we kept going.  He stayed out the whole time until his little pumpkin bucket was so full it was bending under the weight and I thought for sure the handle was going to come off! 

Dave & I have some observations about Halloween now vs. Halloween when we were kids.  First, we would plan out our route in advance to ensure we hit all the best neighborhoods.  And we would seriously trick-or-treat for 4+ hours, staying out as long as we possibly could to get as much candy as possible, running the entire time!  Kids these days go for like an hour and then they complain that their bag is getting heavy and they want to go home, or they are getting cold.  We think that kids these days are just so used to having things given to them that they don't want to have to work for it.  And I know that my kids get plenty of treats on a regular basis so it wasn't like it was for us when we were kids and treats were not so readily available at our houses.  The other thing that we noticed is that kids come away from trick-or-treating with SO MUCH CHOCOLATE!!  When we were kids chocolate was super exciting to get because most of the time we got little Dum Dum suckers, Smarties, Milk Duds and Dots (Yuck!).  Kids these days are so spoiled!!

But despite all that, our kids came away from the night with far too much candy!  And to make matters worse, I had so much candy to give out to trick-or-treaters and wasn't home for most of the night like I had planned to give it out so now we are just inundated with treats at our house.  Thank goodness I am at work during the day and not at home being tempted by all this yummy chocolate!!