This was our first big holiday in our home, and it was a great success! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, who doesn't love candy and kids in insanely cute costumes? The fact that it's my birthday is just an added plus!
When we were in Temecula, I think the most trick or treaters we ever got was two in one evening. And in hindsight, it may have just been the same kid circling our neighborhood more than once! We were hoping that Halloween was going to be more festive in our new neighborhood- and it exceeded our expectations!
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| Mickey Mouse |
Every year we try to carve a few cute pumpkins, this year we didn't have a lot of time so I quickly carved out a Mickey Mouse. Not nearly as cute as my Puss 'n Boots from last year, but he was recognizable! We had a lot of kids in Disney outfits, so I think it was a good choice
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| Ready for the kids! |
I really didn't know how much candy to buy, I ended up getting two huge bags. I was really thankful later for all that candy, because we went through almost all of it!
This isn't the greatest picture of our stoop, it looked really cute in person. Our neighborhood was pretty decked out for Halloween, one of our neighbors across the street even made some really cute signs pointing trick or treaters to his front door. A house near ours advertised that they were not handing out candy, which I think is really just asking kids to egg your house.
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| Thank goodness for baby gates! |
For the most part, our dogs did a great job on Halloween. Toby was exhausted from wagging his tail at all the kids in costume!
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| No. |
We did get a surprise trick or treater who taught us not to leave the door open!
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Really. No!
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Is it wrong that I was surprised that a cat wandered into our house?
We had a wonderful first Halloween in this house, and are looking forward to many, many more!
