"Happy (belated) Halloween!"

Halloween started out with Benjamin and Nathaniel off to school with Daniel and Matthew Whatcott from our morning carpool. I wasn't able to get their school-wide parade pictures as my camera's battery died and it needed to be recharging for a few hours. Class parties added to their sugar levels as well as to their Halloween joys! Nathaniel was a Grim Reaper. Benjamin was a menacing Pirate who had a sword wound across his cheek, and Connor was a Zombie. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof ", Right? >:-P

It is regrettable that I am slow to call or write. By the time I did try to set up a get-together with the extended Brooks family there were plans already set, so we ended up going to Susan Hayes' Halloween party and went trick-or-treating in our own neighborhood. Jessica was out on a date with Tyler and Bill and Kaitlin watching The Dark Knight, and so Ken and I left no one at home to dole out candy and took our sons out and about. Connor went off to a haunted house down the street from our neighborhood and then scored candy and soda cans etc. along his way back home. Ken and I realize our years of taking our boys trick-or-treating are numbered. Time really does fly when your having fun! I think it made us enjoy this year's Halloween walk-about all the more. We hope you all enjoyed spooking your neighborhoods as well!