Please and Thank You

Dougs pumpkin

My pumpkin Doug let me carve this one too

Okay so Im finally posting pics from Halloween. Sorry. Halloween night went really well. Alexandra went as Little Red Riding Hood. At first she didnt want to wear her red cape but then changed her mind. Grandma Thayer came along for the walk. We also met up with Kari, Rick, Lance and Kari's nieces. Lance was an adorable, I mean, scary Dracula. The kids went door to door saying trick or treat. well everyone except Alex. She couldnt say it. So I had her saying Please and thank you. There were only a few houses she didnt want to walk up to because they had some kind of large statue of a ghost or vampire or witch that scared her. Sometimes she would go when Lance held her hand. After a couple of hours we headed back to the house to hand out our candy.

Get this. It's past 9 oclock. We just get Alex into her jammies, settled down about to put her to bed when Lucifer starts barking madly at the front door. I look out the window and see kids. Doug opens the door and there are kids still trick or treating. Parents are sitting out in their truck in the middle of the road waiting for them. Doug gives them some candy and they are on their way. What the heck? Hello? There is a designated time frame for trick or treating for a reason. Some parents just dont think about others. And not to mention, the kids were rude. Doug specifically hands them teddy Graham crackers for their little sister... As Doug is handing them to one of the kids, the kid snatches it out of his hand, then tries to take the other candy that he was still holding onto... and noone said thank you...

Little Red Riding Hood

Dracula and his girlfriend Red

The first house we went to

Notice Lance in the back.. he was snatching more candy from a kids hand. I was laughing (bad Courtney, bad)

Daddy didnt want to walk anymore

Grandma Thayer decided she wanted a free ride so kicked Alex and Daddy out of the wagon

Lance was such a gentleman and held Alex's hand because, he said, "she is scared".

Greenwood cop passing out candy...Why did us adults say to each other when he pulled up with his lights on "What did we do?" ..... guilty conscience???