{"id":8428,"date":"2013-11-01T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:06:45","slug":"this-is-halloween-this-is-halloween-halloween-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=8428","title":{"rendered":"This is Halloween, This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween……"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a beautiful and fun day we had for Halloween! Even though it had rained earlier in the week, the day was dry and sunny. You couldn’t ask for nicer weather, actually.<\/p>\n

Of course, the night before Halloween there was quite a costume scramble. Everyone asking “where’s my yellow shirt? I put it on the stairs?” “Can you fix my costume? It ripped”, “Do we have fairy wings?”, and my personal favorite comment, after I spent a half hour going through all the possible costumes we have and suggesting many ideas, was “We don’t have ANY costumes. All of ours are stupid.” Oh, the joys of children who have opinions. Remember when they were little and MOM just chose the costumes and dressed them up?<\/p>\n

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Oh, yeah. Those days were fun.<\/p>\n

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Even back then (this picture is from 2005), the kids loved to go to Ryan’s work to go trick-or-treating through the cubicles. Dad gets to show off his family, the kids get a lot of candy in a short amount of time, and it’s just fun. Plus the costumes at his work are great! This year the marketing department was all wizard of oz, and even had a yellow “brick” road.<\/p>\n

Of course, I started my day in costume. Still doing that Merlin show.
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What a fun experience. And all the kids in the audience were in costumes, too, so that made it even more fun.<\/p>\n

Then off to do John’s class party at school. Although those darn 4th graders didn’t know I was supposed to be Rosie the Riveter. Next year I’ll go with something more recognizable, I guess.<\/p>\n

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Fun party, though. I was in charge of Halloween Bingo.<\/p>\n

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After school, when we went to the dad’s work, the kids HAD to make sure we stopped in the game room. I think they think that people just play games at work.
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After we got home, it was sandwiches for dinner and then trick or treating. Megan and Natalie felt a bit too old to go out begging for candy, but when I told them they HAD to go with John, that gave them an excuse to go. <\/p>\n

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It was a lovely Halloween. I’m kind of sad that it’s over. But luckily, we get to get right into Christmas concerts, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, which will be here before we know it. I hope you also had a fun holiday, and I’ll leave you with this funny.<\/p>\n