Halloween

Being an American island, we've tried adopting some of the traditional holidays. It's remains quite different from the Halloweens I knew in my youth, for one, trick or treating consists of fighting the hordes of kids who bombard the "palagi" neighborhoods. Most of those families who have spent one Halloween handing out candy are smart enough to run the other direction when trick or treaters start knocking. We did take the kids out for the experience anyway. We also went to some carnivals leading up the the big night, it was a week-long candy fest! Nate didn't care about anything but the candy of course, but he was the cutest ninja on island.

Trey went with the old superhero standby and faithfully wore his costume for an entire day of school and 2 carnivals. Did I mention it's hot here? Those polyester costumes are not made for the tropics. Jay was curious why I decided not to dress up this year. I laughed, he's hysterical. And the cute little witch in the photo is my friends daughter. (no that's not her true hair color)

We actually got a shipment of pumpkins that didn't cost 10 dollars a pound so we got to carve a pumpkin for the first time in 4 years. It was quite a treat. Trey designed Jack this year but Jay insisted on cutting it, he doesn't think it's safe to let a 5 year old have that job for some reason.