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Is it just me . . . or what? When we were kids, halloween was a time to throw on an old sheet with holes for eyes, or a paper-type mask held on to your head with a rubber band, or maybe put on some “hobo” clothes with hair in pig tails. Halloween night these days is quite different!

Each year we help with the Trick or Treat night at our grandkid’s house, I am amazed at the costumes these kids (and adults) are wearing. Some are really nice home-made outfits — complete from head to toe. Others are store-bought, but they are also very complete. Of course, there is also hair coloring, makeup, and wigs. Some props that are carried (along with their candy bag) include swords, wands, microphones, chains. Many of these trick or treaters could win a halloween costume contest — very entertaining! Of course, OUR grandchildren’s outfits were the VERY best — Brielle was Medusa (complete with home-made gown and a wig with lots of snakes within — yes, our beautiful Brielle chose this character); McKenna was a rock star (another home-made outfit with lots of glitz; head microphone, of course, that one lady thought was a telephone headset, and purple hair); and Keegan changed his mind at the last minute — he went as Death Rider (complete with black and white makeup all over his face — not recognizable as our handsome grandson!).

Our family had a Pumpkin Carving party the Saturday before Halloween — each of us carved one using commercial patterns that you tape onto the pumpkin and then carve. We finished with some really impressive looking pumpkins — cell phones with cameras were popping pictures very often, we noticed! Here is a sampling —

Anyway, we enjoyed our night with the gobblins — especially the candy part!