Friday, November 2, 2007

Happy Halloween

Halloween at Wal Mart home office is tons of fun! Hundreds of families and children walking around in costumes with sugar comas collecting candy . Unfortunately our camera is on the fritz so I didn't get any pictures of the great decorations, but it was amazing. Spencer's marketing department goes all out. They decorate their hallways and cubicles into amazing things. This year there was an airplane to walk through, a disco place, a jungle, and a blown up office.
We knew that taking Annie and Jackson trick-or-treating at Wal-mart could be exhausting for us. Halfway through they would just want to be carried. Spencer had a brilliant plan this year to bring our little red wagons. It was perfect. They sat in their wagons and we pulled them around to visit all of Spencer's friends and co-workers. Annie has the candy thing down--she knew that the candy from all the people and in the buckets went in her pumpkin. Let's just say she wasn't shy. The trickiest part of Halloween this year was getting Annie and Jackson the candy fast enough. I don't know how, but they seem to recognize candy from any other food. As fast as they could collect it they wanted it all opened so they could eat it.

Unfortunately we don't have a picture of it, but our two little Indians looked pretty cute sitting in their red wagons holding onto their candy buckets and being pulled around by two cowboys--one very pregnant. We were quite the site. We had dozens of people stop to goo goo over them. Of course I think my children are adorable, but it is fun to have other people think so also. Even though most of the people told me I had 2 darling boys. We had one lady ask if she could take their picture. She said "I know I don't know you, but I have to have a picture of your children."
So thank you to whomever created Halloween and thank you to Annie and Jackson for helping mom and dad create a great candy stash!!

2 comments:

Valerie Chandler said...

Gosh, Amanda, it looks like Jackson and Spencer were the only ones at Wal-Mart that day! How did you find that little place of solitude and peace in such mayhem? It was so cute to see you there. You are some of my favorite people.

bonniejean22 said...

Amanda and Spencer, You two make the cutest kids!!! I can't wait to see the next one! I miss you guys hopefully We can see you some time soon.
Jackson is more then welcome to borrow Uchenna's Captain underpants outfit next year.:)