Halloween Heroes

The odds of me blogging these days are rather slim.  We live close enough to grandparents that that motivating factor has disappeared.  But more importantly, we don't have our desktop computer set up and Trustin takes the laptop with him to work, along with all of our pictures.  Thus, in order for the planets to align enough for me to blog (with pictures at least) I have to have time, and the thought to do it when he's home.  The planets don't align often. 
But here is a bit about our Halloween, but I couldn't download half of them because our computer is having isues.

We got into Halloween this year.  How into it?

Pretty into it.  Yes, I am married to the most amazing guy. You've got to be a man to wear those horns with confidence. I love him.

We all went as superheros (for rather obvious reasons).  In case it isn't obvious, I went as Black Widow, Trustin was Loki, Ashlynn was Spidergirl and Zeke was Thor. 

The secret love between a hero and a villain. 

My cuties!  Ashlynn was beyond excited to be Spidergirl.  She loves Spiderman. Everytime she sees a picture of him in a book or store she points excitedly and shouts "Spidey, Spidey!" 

The mighty THOR

This was the first time the kids have really been trick or treating.  We took Zeke his first Halloween, but he slept through the whole thing and the last few years have just been Trunk-or-Treats.  So this was a fun experience.  We went to a Trunk or Treat on Friday and the kids had fun playing games and getting prizes, but they really loved the actual trick or treating. Zeke was so excited, but excitement was more reserved once we were actually out walking around.  In his sweet Zeke way he quietly went to every door whispering trick-or-treat and then heading off to the next door with a thank you when he remembered.  Ashlynn, who is typically quite reserved around strangers (and even family if she hasn't seen you in a week) found that the candy motivation easily overcame any fear of social situations.  She hurried to every door and held out her hand (she was quite put out if anybody tried to dodge her hand and put the candy straight into her pumpkin).  At at least two houses she tried to push her way inside when they opened the door.  She was always activiely pushing her way to the front of the candy line to get the best goodies.  Once she got the candy she was off to the next house.  She wouldn't let us carry her, and she definately wouldn't let us carry her pumpkin, she just dragged it along behind her and went in search of more candy.  She wasn't too concerned about where Zeke or any of the rest of us were.  Priorities folks, and candy is king.  Eventually she had her fill of obtaining candy and then was more interested in eating it (I'm sure none of you other parents have any experience with this...). 

When all the kids had enough we took our look back home and dumped it out, ate hot chocolate with marshmallows because we hadn't had enough sugar yet.  All in all, it was a rather deliciously good night.