Hee hee, we have to do the same thing.
Go to the zero lot line neighborhoods for trick or treating. It's fun though, we know lots of the folks that live there.

Cool pix. Kids always smile when there is loads of candy in their future.

Some of my own observations from last night...

-My 2.5 yo son loves Halloween. At first he tried to give the candy BACK to the people giving it out. He learned quickly.

-The 12+ crowd stopped caring. We had about 20 kids with jeans & sweatshirts. Nothing else. They got the Raisinets.

-We also experimented giving out little cans of Play-Doh. My wife made it Sociology. She said that over 90% of the younger kids chose one small can of play-doh over two pieces of candy. Eventually you could, literally, hear the buzz on the street. "Is that the house with the play doh?" I'm not sure what this means.

We travelled also. The boys' goal was to get to 100 houses, and with my husband "counting" (ahem) they went to 104.
Let the candy sorting and trading begin!

We have trunk or treat at our church--the kids only have to walk from one parking space to the next. My son got tired and only visited about 1/10th of the cars available. So cool!!

Your kids are just way too gorgeous.

sooo - thats why we went through an estimated 180 pieces of candy last night...Ran out and someone started using MY personal stash, bad idea. Fortunately the damage to the stash has been repaired with items borrowed from my own Trick or Treater.

I totally agree, the cookie cutter houses always have the best candy...the downside of those subdivisions being that there is always that one house where the single man lives who thinks it's really funny to sit on his porch in some freaked out mask, looking like a decoration, and then when ya get close he jumps out at you, and you have to run away while your kids laugh and point at you. Not like that happened to me or anything, I'm just sayin. ;-)

Interesting... Either BusyBoy hit my neighborhood last night, and thus ended up on my blog this morning, or there was a run on that skeleton man costume!

BTW - Welcome back... again!

Glad you're back! I got that bandwidth error message yesterday and was very glad to realize that today was the first and you'd most likely be back.

We're in a neighborhood with acres lots AND our driveway requires a slight uphill climb, so we only get 10 or 12 trick or treaters. I bought little packs of Goldfish so I wouldn't be tempted to pig out on the leftovers.

There oughta be a Flickr law saying all pictures have to be labeled, and that the perpetrator of the site be required to show at least one picture of her ownself. Pish.

(Your kids are beautiful, Mom. I bet you wish you had something to do with it.)

Busymom, you remind me more and mor e of Wilson everyday!

Just wondering...how many seconds until your son took of the skull mask? My nephew made it approximately 10.5 seconds before he was panting and dizzy? I think his was missing the pesky little things called "air holes"...guess you need them after all.

Great pictures! We used to live in one of those cookie cutter neihborhoods, I loved Halloween. We easily had over 250 kids there. Last night? Maybe 50 (including my 5, hehe). It was so boring and now we have way too much candy here.

If we continue to live where we do now, we'll have to do the same thing when Pookie gets older. She had a blast going to the houses near us this year though!

Beautiful kids, and great costumes!

"Cookie Cutter" houses??? "1/32 of an acre" lots???? That sounds a bit snobbish to me.

Cute pics....your mom looks great!!

Cool pix BM, you have a very friendly looking family little lady.

Cheers.