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Our Spooktacular Halloween

We had a busy Halloween weekend. Carter and Hunter once again wanted to be Mario and Luigi, but Graham didn't want anything to do with wearing a costume. He had the choice of Toad (from Mario Bros.), a dog, a bat, or a monkey. He didn't want to wear ANYTHING other than blue jeans!

We went trick-or-treating on historic Glenwood Terrace in Anniston Saturday afternoon and then stopped by Grandma Jackie's and Grandpa Jim's house for some yummy supper. Sunday we went to the fall festival at our church. The kids had a great time and got WAY too much candy.






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ME! said…
That is just too funny. that is probably the least stressful Halloween costume story ever. :) Looks like they had fun and I love the pictures!
November 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM
The McKinneys said…
They did make it easy! Aside from the fact that we spent hours trying to convince Graham that wearing a costume would be SO MUCH FUN! He didn't buy it for a second! LOL
November 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM
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