Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween Night

So last night was Halloween night in a new place. I will tell you first off that is was the best Halloween we have ever had. You have to understand that we moved from Florida to Arizona because of several stresses we had going on. 2011 started out on a good note for us, but it also brought over the stress of the past year. Stress we could not seem to get away from. I will not go into all of the stresses that we had.

So back to our first Halloween in Golden Valley. On Friday night the girls school had a trick or treat inside the school. We were told about it from the girls a few days earlier and so thought that this would be cool. We had been to other TorT's at the girls school in Fl and they were always fun and really cool.

When the girls came home from school that afternoon they cleaned up and got into their costumes. Our oldest girl was a dead witch/cat, which I must say she pulled off very very well. Our youngest girl was a witch, such a cute little witch, but don't tell her that lol. Anyways we went to the school and as soon as we went into the doors there was a line. At first we were like okay. We over heard a lady telling her friend that they had the staff doing TorT in the hallways at their rooms. So we are thinking that you are going to go to a teachers room, go inside do or see something fun, umm I mean scary, get some candy and then get in line to go into the next room. That is what we have done before. So we were like okay cool. Is that what happen? No.

We got into line and stood and walked in the dark slowly and I mean slowly, walking in the hallways of the school, where every once in a while you would come up to the desk with a teacher or volunteer sitting there handing out candy. Really? Please, you have got to be kidding me! So we spent about an hour walking, more standing around then anything, just so our girls can get a piece of candy here and there. I do hope that this was the schools first time doing this, but I found out the next day it was not.

After we left the school we went out to eat. When we lived in Fl we went to Cracker Barrell every Friday for fish Friday. It is/was our tradition for many years. When we talked about making the move, we knew that some things were going to have to change and this might be one of them. So after about a month of not going to CB we got to go and it was really nice. I hate changing things that my family loves, things that we can count on to brings us together. I will fight tooth and nail to change this one, so I plan on doing something about it. Even the girls look forward to it even thought they do not eat fish lol.

On Saturday we stuck around the house. The girls went out with daddy for a bit to help him get things for the house, while I worked. Our oldest daughter got invited to a party/sleep over. This would be the first time that she would be going to a Halloween party with boys there. I promise you I did not get any sleep friday night or saturday night. So that evening my hubby took her over there and met the father of the girl throwing the party. We knew that we would both be working, job wise, on something since it was the end of the month so we invited my sisters 2 daughters over to spend the night with our youngest. Needest to say everything went well.

Sunday we got up and went to a swap meet after dropping off my sisters kids. I had to work in a few hours so we kind of had to hurry but things went well and we had fun.

On Monday the girls went to school and I started work. I had a meeting with my team before we could leave to go TorT so the girls got ready to go during this time. We had been told last week by the cable guy that the boys and girls club does a Halloween event at their place and it involves a local car club. We love old cars. We love car shows. LOL It was going to be win win. So we headed down that way and went searching for the entrance. As we were rounding the block we saw the line. We had gotten there about 30 minutes after it started up so we were like okay. As we were moving in line which was moving faster then the line at the school, we started to round another corner and saw it. The line must had been at least a half a mile to a mile long. So while standing in line my hubby walks down to see how long the line is and where the entrance is. He also wants to check out what is there and how it is moving after you finally get inside. He comes back and says that there are some nice cars, but once you get past the entrance it is the same as outside. We ask the girls what they want to do because it is their halloween and they say they want to try to find a community like we are use too.

So we leave there and head to Del Taco for dinner. They had a special going on that if the kids come in dressed up they ate for free. Can you say cool! So we had dinner and asked the lady at the front if she knew anywhere we could go. She said a church down the road always had an event each year. We headed down that way but when we got there the girls said they did not want to go in there. Not knowing the people and all. So we told them we would look around and maybe see something else. Well I am not quite sure how it got started but we ended up having a candy fight inside the truck. While my hubby was driving, me and the girls were throwing candy at each other, laughing so hard it hurt to breath. So we went from Kingman to Golden Valley which is about 30-40 minutes away from each other throwing candy and just having fun with each other. By the time we got home I could hardly talk and our youngest was passed out. I have to give kudos to my hubby for getting us home safe while candy was flying past him. I do not think we have ever had this much fun on Halloween.

Will I go to work today? No already released my shifts for today and will do non-talking work for at least today.

Happy Late Halloween everyone!!!