Sugar Rush: Halloween 2013

Yep, it's Fast Sunday. We still have boatloads of this laying around. Ohhhhh so tempting.

Fasting is good, though, especially when you have a great need for blessings and strength, which I most certainly do.
I'm telling my physical body (and salivary glands) to back off.

Halloween 2013. Mar's last year to trick-or-treat. Even though her friends said they weren't going, there was no way that Mar was going to miss out on this final opportunity to wrangle up a pillowcase full of treats. She had called around to find someone to go with, but to no avail. That was NOT stopping her. She would go anyway.

TrunkOrTreat night. Mar had decided to be a princess this year. She begged me to take her to Goodwill where she spotted this awesome broomstick skirt with enough room for a princess-inspired poofy slip. Yeah, I can sockless-bun with the best. Seriously, can you believe what a beautiful day that was??

On Halloween night, we snapped a few pics before Mar and Bill headed out into the dark of the neighborhood.

We certainly could not let the holiday go by without dressing up the pups. They wore the same costumes they wore last year (for budgeting purposes), but this year Ava had a princess buddy.

Since I returned late from a Dr. appt. for Lex (deep in the heart of the heavily trafficked city) Mar was anxious for me to whip up another sockless bun. 5 minutes. Bigger and better than the last one. 

Oh yeah.

And they were off. About the third house in, Mar picked up a few friends to trick-or-treat with. Some of those girls decided they DID want to go after all. 

Trick-or-treaters were pretty scarce in our neighborhood this year. I had mostly teenagers, with a few tiny tikes here and there. I tried to be careful with my candy purchases (for health weight AND budgeting purposes), but still ended up with a lot left over. Mar brought home a hefty pillowcase loaded with sweet things, from which I made numerous selections. 

Sugar rush.

Here are a couple other fun seasonal pics courtesy of my phone camera library:

Creepy google-eyed-fuzzy-hatted-big-nosed Mar.

Creepy google-eyed-fuzzy-hatted-big-nosed Mar. To the negative. 

Google-eyed Ava. 

Google-eyed Jack. 

Farmer Jack.