The Life & Times of Finnegan Buckley The terribly exciting and ever expanding world of me, myself

Yoda with his mouth full

OMG!  I don’t know who’s idea Halloween is, but I need to meet him and give him a knuckle bump.  Heck, I might even give him a hug.  The only problem I can see with this day is, why in the world don’t we do it every day.  I’d even suffer the humiliation of these big ears again if it means I’d get another big pumpkin full of candy.

I knew something was up when Mom woke me up early from my nap.  We headed down to the end of our cul-de-sac, where I could see all my friends running around, and their Mom’s setting up snacks and goodies on the table.  Woohoo!  This is bound to be good!  A few minutes later Dad and Mr. John pulled up in our truck with a big bouncy house in the back.  I nearly passed out right then and there.

So while my friends and I spent the next few hours jumping around in the bouncy house, and eating cupcakes, Mom and Dad hung out with our neighbors doing ol’ people stuff.  Whatever that might be….  All I know is that if it doesn’t involve cupcakes and bouncy houses then it’s probably not worth my time.

Around 6:30 or so we started seeing trick-or-treaters wandering towards us so everyone started packing things up and shuffling off.  You know what that means don’t you?!  It means it’s time for CANDY!!!!!  I even made a deal with Mom….I told her I’d put on that silly costume if I could have a lollipop.  It took me a few houses to actually figure out how this all worked but once I figured it out there was no stopping me.  I could’ve gone all night, I tell ya!  At first I thought the objective was to ring the doorbell, wait for the person to come outside with a bucket in their hands, and then get some candy out of my bucket and put it into theirs.  But Daddy told me that I didn’t have to do that.  I should just pick out a piece of candy and then put it into my bucket.  Aahhhhh…..SO much better!  Why didn’t you just say so in the first place?

When we finished going to all the houses on our street Mommy took me over to Auntie Brett’s house to say Hi to Bubbie (Cali) and Bubba (McKenna).  That was totally awesome because Bubbie took me trick-or-treating at some of her friends houses.  Then we went back home to our neighborhood because our Morena Dr Block Party was still going full force.  Everyone had finished trick-or-treating and they were hanging outside together and cooking up hotdogs.  That made for a very long day, but a REALLY fun one!  Now the countdown starts for next year.