Halloween 2009

Despite my poor attitude toward Halloween, the Brothers YZ had a great day. The festivities began early for Evan whose friend, Jasira, from kindergarten was having a costume party for her birthday. Almost everyone from his kindergarten class attended this extraganza that was held at the Nimrod League of Holden. Apparently, the Nimrod League is another type of fish and gun club. I wish I had brought my camera to the party, as it was very cute to see 20 kindergartners in their costumes. Everyone was very well-behaved with some excellent party planning by the birthday girl's mom.
After the party, we had to rush home to get Liam in his costume for trick-or-treating with Cousin Henry. As you can see, we had a police officer, fire fighter, and tiger. Liam and Henry did a short route to friends in the neighborhood while Evan did a longer route with Greg. Henry did a great job walking about, and Liam was more safety conscious than usual. I think that his obsession with the tiny bag of M&Ms in his hand curbed his instict to run. In truth, I think Liam would have been happy to call it a night after getting this bag of M&Ms from our neighbors across the street. Liam had trouble getting the concept of trick-or-treating. Why wait to eat a perfectly good bag of candy?

Nana and Grampa also joined in on the fun. They came over in their own costumes to man the Pioneer House while the trick-or-treaters were out. Evan had fun borrowing Grampa's light-up glasses/mustache. After trick-0r-treating, we all sat down to some chili and mac & cheese--a Halloween tradition with the Gemborys/McGurin clan.