No Tricks, All Treats

So...the mums aren't the same size. But I got a great deal at a local garden center - $40 for the two huge mums and four pumpkins!

Halloween on Olive is a completely different monster (ha!) than we've ever experienced before. Before we bought this house, the former owners told us there were around 600 or so trick-or-treaters on this street. As we met our neighbors after we moved in, the number kept getting higher...they suggested we'd have 600-800 trick-or-treaters. Our minds were blown. Surely there was no way we'd actually have that many...

Sweet Tinker Bell loved Halloween on Olive!

The day before Halloween I grabbed about 1000 pieces of candy "just in case." We had our family over, fixed chili and hot dogs and cheese dip and desserts...all the things you *must* have for a successful Halloween night! I ran Sagan round to our family who lives a town over, then got home around 4. By 5, the trick-or-treaters started coming. And coming. And coming.

The forecast was for rain and over all an icky evening. I thought that surely we wouldn't have many. 749 trick-or-treaters later, I was proven wrong. Despite the intermittent sprinkles (and sometimes outright downpours), they kept coming! Luckily my brother-in-law had a giant umbrella so we huddled under that. We could only give one piece of candy per kiddo because of how many kids we had!

We had a blast. The kids were adorable. There were such neat costumes. Katniss, a mail man (who handed us a piece of mail thanking us and wishing us a Happy Halloween - cutest idea ever!), a Wizard of Oz family, all kinds of princesses, zombies, and more made the trek up our sidewalk.

Sagan (dressed as Tinker Bell) absolutely LOVED handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters. She was slow...she'd pick up one piece, hold it over their bags for a second, then finally drop it in. Big Cousin Emma (dressed as Elsa) also enjoyed handing out candy!

Our neighbors had some amazing decorations at their houses. We had only been in our house about a week and a half so the extent of my decor was mums and pumpkins; next year we have to bring our A game!