It was a dark and stormy night, or backtracking to last week

I am SO OVER October and Halloween. I am looking ahead to November and Thanksgiving and snow, and all of that fun stuff. But I am lacking good blog-fodder, so I am going to back-track and post about Halloween.

Here is my boy all decked out, a few weeks earlier for trick-or-treating around the square:

I show you these, because all I got from actual trick-or-treating is his back side.

It was dark AND stormy AND very windy. My umbrella tried to carry me away a few times, like Mary Poppins. That’s why my photos are so eh. Also, I dropped my camera a few weeks back and snapped my favorite lens right off. We “fixed” it, but it has some issues with focal point and over exposure, and that’s my story.

I had planned on NOT going out on Halloween, because it was so wet and windy, but at the last minute, I told him to put on his costume. He was SO happy, and people were giving out handfuls of candy, since so few kids had ventured out. When we got home, Daddy was back, armed with candy and pizza. We love Daddy.

And then we carved the biggest pumpkin, the one the neighbor kid didn’t steal and try to carve.

See? Focal point issues. Anyway, Aiden drew the face himself and we carved it for him. Here is Mr. Grumpy Jack.