Trick or Treat

Our family has a long standing tradition of getting together at my brother and sister-in-law's house to celebrate Halloween.  I'm not sure how long we have been doing this but I know it started before Dan and I even had kids.  We get the kids all dressed up and make them stand around for the traditional pictures and then we follow them around as they trick-or-treat.  We used to be able to get away with just stopping at a few houses and then going back the house and eating yummy food (and candy).  However, as the kids get older we find ourselves spending more and more time doing the actual trick-or-treating.

The annual group shot (with Patrick).  Emma wanted nothing to do with standing next to the scary decorations!

My little Rapunzel

 Elmo

The skeleton laying on the ground is actually my nephew Ronnie.  Scary right?!

 Emma keeping her eye on the scary stuff

The first house.

Unfortunately Dan and I ended up having to make a hasty exit from trick-or-treating.  While we were out, I started to feel dizzy and faint.  I ended up getting really disoriented and couldn't get myself together.  I had had stomach issues all day which I assumed was the result of a weekend of eating really crappy food so I hadn't eaten or drank much because I just didn't feel like it.   Turns out my "stomach issues" were really a stomach bug.  We went to the emergency room and learned that I was very dehydrated which was causing a blood pressure issue that was responsible for the fainting.  So we spent the remainder of our evening in the hospital getting pumped full of fluids rather than eating yummy food with our peeps:-(