Halloween 2014

Halloween this year was a little unique. Usually we dress up on Halloween day and parade the kids around neighborhoods for candy. This year though we were in Christmas mode celebrating the first weekend of lights at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.

The kids did get in some trick or treating though, don't you worry and plenty enough candy to produce a few cavities.

The day before Halloween we went downtown to watch Gabe's school of kids parade up and down Main Street. Aunt Amy went with us too. Ellie slept through it, Barrett begged some candy from a couple of businesses.

Can you see the chocolate remnants?

Bryson in his bumble bee costume.

Nap was cut way short to make the parade.

My "professional" baseball player.

He took paper and a marker to give autographs and everything.

But for "real" Halloween he wanted to be a ninja turtle.

Where's his mask? In a seatback pocket in our van.

Still is as of January 2015.

 On "real" Halloween we walked around the stores at Branson Landing and got gobs of candy and coupons. Then Papa had a little run in with a store clerk regarding his fanciful parking job and we headed back to the camper to find Papa's meat smoker had completely engulfed in flames while were gone and was a pile of metal and ashes. That meat though. It survived. Most amazing meat I've ever had. And I'm not much of a beef fan. Then that poor Papa came down with a severe headache and missed our entire day of SDC activity. Turns how he'd been poisoned by a brown recluse. It was a rough weekend for him.

Little Ellie chilling in Grami and Papa's camper.

Aunt Amy bought her Halloween shirt.

It was the only "costume" she wore.

Halloween may have looked different for our family this year, but it was just as fun! And, Gabe's already planning next year...zombies he says. Negative, I say.