Visions of Halloween

Halloween is one of those holidays that I am JUST so glad to see go! It is not like Christmas or Thanksgiving where you are a little sad to see it end and wait for as long as possible to take down the decorations or eat that last piece of pie. I think I look forward to the cleaning up of and the taking down of all the spooky reminders of the craziness even more than the actual making of the little projects and the details of the day. This year, we had our fill of fun Halloween events but the biggy came on Halloween evening, our school carnival. It turned out great. It was less stressful than I thought it was going to be, but nonetheless, I am a "stresser" kind of a gal, so I still wasted precious night's sleep worrying about how it was all going to pan out. Luckily, there are way awesome people that I work with who were willing to help take some of the load off. I remember at last year's carnival, I was running around like a mad woman and didn't have time to take any pictures. It would have made this year's carnival so much easier to put together had I done that. So, this year, I tried to take pictures before the major crowds started rolling in. A lot of the images are blurry, 'cause I was in a hurry, but at least they will be little reminders of what our carnival was like this year. I also got some pics of the kids at the trunk-or-treat that was held right after the carnival. Such a FUN-FUN night. I handed Steve the camera in the morning for the school parade because he did such a great job last year capturing most of the teachers in their costumes. This year, he totally dropped the ball. I think we had two images from the parade. One was of our son Lewis, which I am glad he got before his make-up got all smeared off. Anyway, Halloween was big, full and fun, but most of all it is OVER and I am SOOOOO glad! Now, to get rid of that Halloween candy. . .