Halloween

This year we went trick-or-treating with Jen and her family.  Gray gets to see Lofton all the time but the big boys haven't seen Jen's kids since school started, I think!  Which is crazy since they saw each other almost everyday during the summer.  The houses are a little closer together in Jen's neighborhood which makes it much better than ours for trick-or-treating.

This year Rylan was a ninja, Carter was a taco (he got tons of attention with his cool costume), and Gray let us put the skeleton pajama shirt on him that he also wore last year (he wore the matching pants last year but refused even those this year).  Gray wanted to be a million things (pizza, a grape, and applesauce packet, a monkey, and more) and agreed to Carter's old shark costume he wore at Gray's age but then Gray of course refused to wear it.

The little ones refused to be in the group picture but here are the rest of our group (Mae, Rylan, Reed, Carter, & Evie):

Carter, Rylan, Mae, and Reed ran from house to house and Gray kept up with them (Evie was with a friend for a bit and Lofton just couldn't keep up).  Gray did a great job (and got better and better) at saying "trick-or-treat" and "thank you".  And he always only took one piece of candy.

I think the kids trick-or-treated for about 1 1/2 hours.  They all got tons of candy.  Unfortunately Gray broke the handle on his bucket within two minutes and we had to carry it for him.  We were pretty much holding the older boys' too by the end because they were so heavy.

We spent some time at Jen's house before and after trick-or-treating too and the kids picked up like they've been hanging out all the time.  We definitely need to get them together more!  Carter and Rylan said it was the best Halloween yet!