Halloween

Our celebration of All Hallows Eve this year was a little subdued as we were hit with flu this week. Riley was home with a fever all week, then Todd developed a fever and lastly Lucy a few days ago. So far I feel fine, but this is likely because I was the only one in the house vaccinated. We still managed to carve our pumpkins and despite illness the kids were very much looking forward to trick-or-treating.

Costumes had long been decided. Last year Riley pretty much told a not yet 2 year old Lucy what to be. It went something like this. Riley- "I'm going to be Batman, do you want to Superman or Spider man?" Lucy- "Superman." They were the cutest pair of superheroes you ever did see. I've included a picture for your enjoyment.

Halloween 2008

This year things went a little different as Lucy is nearly 3 and as fiercely independent as they come. Riley decided early on that he wanted to be a witch and though he put a fair bit of effort into trying to convince Lucy to be his black cat, she was very clear that she would rather be a monkey.

Still pretty cute.

So the trick-or-treating happens for us in downtown Hood River. They close down main street and the kids go from business to business. Its really quite fun and perfect for little ones. So we start at one end of town and grab a couple of slices of pizza then slowly make our way to the other end.

Downtown Hood River on Halloween....

Getting ready to do some trickin......

.....and then getting the treats!

then onto the next store...

At the end of town we find Hood River's sweet little ice cream shop Mike's Ice Cream whose Halloween tradition is to give away ice cream cones until all their ice cream is gone and then they close up shop for the winter (opening again in late April). It seems funny to be sitting there eating ice cream on a typically cold Halloween evening, but we (and I mean the whole town when I say we) all look forward to it every year.

Like his father, Riley loves chocolate ice cream!

In the end we didn't have the heart to tell Lucy she couldn't go trick-or-treating because she was sick. So we just went early and were home by 6pm and in bed by 7pm. We are too far out of town to get any trick-or-treaters at our house, which was just fine. We limped our way through this Halloween but still managed to come home with buckets of candy, smiles and good memories of our favorite costume sitings.

Hope your Halloween was happy too!