Halloween Happenings

 I went pretty low key on Ben's costume this year.  

He didn't keep his hat on too long but I was able to snag a few pics while it was in place.

Josh had Institute choir in costume and posed with Ben before he left.

We had our usual, informal family gathering that evening as trick or treaters came and went.

I had Dad keep track of numbers for me just to get an idea of how many visitors we had.

We counted an even 70 costumed kids and approx. 30 doorbell rings.

I can't remember if we included these two hoodlums in our count or not... :)

Jo played us a little ditty on his banjo.  He's been taking lessons :)

{On a side note, you can barely see the dark spot on the carpet between Jo and the couch.

Our finish guy had come back that day to fix the spots on our post that hadn't taken the stain when he finished it months before.  He got some stain on the carpet and felt so bad about it!  We weren't able to get it out with anything we tried and I was frustrated about it.  A couple of days later I finally got the guts to try WD40 on it like the internet was suggesting.  It was quite miraculous in getting rid of it!}

Anyway, back to Halloween...

Some cute ladies :)

I asked Mom to bring her usual dry ice and root beer...

This is such a fantastic pic of Mom and Ben!

After eating dinner we played games and enjoyed a jolly good evening together!

Abby shared these pics she took of Andy while we played Skull King.