Sugar Rush

We started our Halloween celebrations last Friday at Bryan's work party. Apparently it's the biggest party they have all year, which makes sense given who he works for. 

I'm including two pictures because I couldn't get one of both Peter and Phoebe smiling. I have no idea if Cooper was smiling due to the mask, but he was posing, so that's something. Yes, we bought all the costumes this year. A small part of me missed the wow factor of the homemade costumes, but a much bigger part was glad I didn't have to worry about them. And laziness wins out again.

The kids got SO MUCH CANDY from his work. I don't normally write about who he works for, but posting the following picture will give you a good hint. Notice how they're full sized packages? I'll also say we were very brand loyal this year in the candy we gave out.

Speaking of which, here's our bowl of candy ready for trick-or-treaters on Halloween. See what I mean about being brand loyal? The smaller candy offerings in the middle were the peanut-containing candy that Peter got; we handed it right back out, which was rather clever I think.

We also made Halloween cookies.

And ate Halloween jigglers.

And went trick or treating.

See Phoebe's choker? It didn't come with her costume. The day of Bryan's work party I pulled out some black ribbon and dug up some velcro (they were picture hangers, but velcro nonetheless) and the glue gun. That's right, I own a glue gun. I think the homemade necklace made the costume.

Because the kids had already pulled in quite the haul, we only went to the eight houses close to our house. The kids got just the right amount of candy. They enjoyed eating what they could while we watched a few Halloween cartoons on Netflix.

We'll decorate those Halloween cookies today after school. I meant for us to do it last night, but there were only so many hours in the day. And only so much sugar three children should consume in an evening.