Halloween 2008

In the years past, Hunter has always wanted to be something cute for HALLOWEEN but this year he wanted to be something really scary. I guess when you are 10 you can't be something cute any more. While we were shopping for a costume, I tried my best to sway him towards the less frightening costumes but he was having none of it. Finally, I gave up and let him pick whatever he wanted. He looked at every costume once or twice and then finally decided on this one. It wasn't my favorite and maybe it was a little to scary but he liked it and since I was going with him I thought it would be okay.

We went trick-or-treating with Khara and Paydon. Hunter was a Zombie and Paydon was a Zombie Slayer. They had a great time. We went to one house that was decorated very creatively. They had witches and ghosts and a mummy around the door and they had a web strung between the palm trees. You had to be careful or you would run right into the web. Well Paydon and Hunter thought it was silly and they weren't scared at all...that is until they got up to the door. All of a sudden the witch and the mummy started making sounds and a hand came from out of no where. The boys turned to run to the car and ran right into the web. The homeowner tried to get them to come back to get their candy but they weren't going to get close to that door again. Finally, the hand threw their candy to them down the side walk.

It was a fun evening but Khara and I couldn't help noticing that trick-or-treating was different than when we were little kids. We used to love to run down the streets trying to hit every house possible and get as much candy as we could before the adults made us go home. Not Paydon and Hunter. After two neighborhoods they were done. Maybe the mummy was just to much for them.