Trick or Treat!

Last weekend we had our ward "trunk or treat" at church.  Hattie was Pikachu, Jameson was a green dragon, and Mister Liam (not pictured) was a bat.  We thought the Jacobs would be out of town, but they decided to leave a day later than planned, so the kids were all very happy to see each other.  

My favorite costumes of the night were these little babies.  They are identical twin girls and they are dressed as lobsters.  Their parents wore rain slickers to look like lobster fishermen (fisherpeople?)and carried them around the party in big lobster pots.  Then for the "trunk or treat" they put each baby on a platter and surrounded them with grapes and candles to look like dinner.  So creative.  And the babies were so cooperative.  

Tonight I was putting the kids to bed and they could barely contain their excitement for Halloween tomorrow.  I am going to both Hattie and Jameson's class parties and I volunteered to make carmel popcorn that I will put into clear plastic gloves to look like a hand for both classes- that should be about 50 (what was I thinking?). 

Anyway, as I was going over some of the safety issues and prepping them for the day, I was reminded of when I was little.  We used to get warnings all the time to check each piece of candy before we ate it and to make sure it had not been tampered with and NEVER eat homemade treats unless we knew the family that passed them out, etc., etc.  I would always try to imagine who could be so evil as to pass out something poisonous to little kids or to put pins or razor blades into candy bars.  

Well, we had some really funny neighbors a few years ago and I could not stop laughing tonight as I remembered the "tricks" they used to offer when we came to their door.  Mind you, they were not serious, and mostly it was for the adults' amusement, but they would invite us in and let us choose from their bowl of "fruit,"  which contained an apple with nails sticking out of it, an apple with nuts and bolts sticking out of it, or an onion.  I just about peed my pants thinking about that memory.  

All of this made little Jameson's head spin. 

"Did those people (who put pins in candy) didn't like children?"  or

"Did they just want to make children die?"

"Did your friends MAKE you take an apple with nails in it?"

"Did you just take the nails out of it and then eat the apple?"

Poor kid, I've added to his already worried little mind.  But I still couldn't stop laughing.  

Any funny Halloween memories from your childhood or your neighborhood?