Pirates, Fairies, and Boys Who Don't Want to Grow Up

Trick-or-treating was held on Thursday night in Blackshear this year so that it would not conflict with the GA/FL game on Saturday (Halloween Day). Even though I think that it is lame to schedule a holiday around a football game, we still went trick-or-treating at the designated time. This Halloween makes the second year that we have had a family "theme" for our Halloween costumes. Our theme was Peter Pan. In case you can't tell, Brian is Captain Hook, I'm Wendy Darling, Olivia is Tinkerbell, and Owen is Peter Pan. We had a lot of fun with this theme- especially Brian who really seemed to like chasing the smaller kids around with his hook.

The first stop of the night was Granny Buie's house where we met up with the Murray family. Ava made a beautiful Snow White, and Claire was a sweet little Tinkerbell (quite the popular costume this year). After taking loads of pictures, we set off for downtown to hit all of the businesses who were giving out candy. I was very surprised by the large number of people who were downtown. Apparently, this is the place to be on Halloween. There was even a firetruck set up on Main Street, and the kids were able to climb in it. After leaving the downtown area, we headed back to Granny's to trick-or-treat in her neighborhood. The kids ended up with quite a bit of candy. I think that they really had a good time. Collecting the candy was the easy part. Owen and Olivia now face the daunting task of trying to protect their candy from the evil Captain Hook (who still has the hook and is not afraid to use it) and from Wendy Darling who is known for having a sweet tooth. They may need a little extra Pixie Dust to pull this off.