10/1/09

BOO'ing

Every year the girls (and this year Ty and Jens) and I make treats and take them to the neighbors houses with this poem attached: 
BOO
The air is cool, the season is fall
soon Boo's will come to all.
The treat that came with the special note
Is yours to keep, enjoy them both.
The fun comes with friends like you
now copy this and make it two.
Then others here among our friends, 
will give warm fuzzies that will never end.
We'll all have smiles upon our face,
no one will know who BOOed each place.
Just one short day to work your fun,
or a big ZAP will strike, SO RUN!
And don't forget a nifty treat,
like something cute or something sweet.
Please join the fun, let's really hear it,
and spread some Boo's and lot's of spirit.
Directions:
1. Enjoy your treat.
2. Place the picture of your BOO on your front door.
3. Now you have 24 hours to copy this twice, make 2 treats and 2 BOO's and secretly deliver them to 2 neighbors who do not have BOO on their front door.
4. Then watch how far this spreads by Halloween. (http://www.kidprintables.com/halloween/boo.shtml)

We always try to be so sneaky, but somehow we always get caught! Our first house of the night was Julie and Kevin's. Things started okay (not counting Wrangler tackling Tytan) but turned out rough. After dropping the treats off we realized we didn't ring the door bell. Annalee, Elly, and Jaylie ran back to try again. They came running at the truck, but poor Jaylie couldn't get in. Julie had to get out and throw her in. Needless to say we were caught! Next, we went to Ben and Andre's. We ran up their road rang the door bell and went to the side of the house to hide.Tytan went to check if the cupcakes were still on the porch and came back and said "I saw her." We asked if she saw him and he got very excited and said "She looked at me!" So we went to Jenny and Donny's. We were golden there, but Donny came out chasing us. Something tells me he knew what was coming. We dropped Jens off to them and went over to the Caldwell's. This was our best house of the night (the only house we didn't get caught at least). We went to Norman and Sharons after the Caldwell's. We did the job and ran to hide and when Norman opened the door he let Little Bear out of the house. Well Little Bear knew something was up and wouldn't go back in the house. All of the sudden Little Bear saw us and came ready to attack. Elly and Leeber started screaming and almost got ran up a tree. It was rough! We went to the Wall's house next and again it was great. Then Leeber decided she couldn't "lie" to her Grandma Wall so she had to go tell her it was us. We ended the night at Rich's (we don't really know them but Melissa and the Harris' weren't home). We only got caught by them when we were driving out of the drive way (it helped that most everyone stayed in the truck). It was such a fun night and something I LOVE to do with these cute kids. I am already thinking about next years BOO'ing adventures.
All the goodies!
The decorating crew.

Brilee and Jake in hiding. Brilee loved having all her cousins at her house at first, but then when dinner time and bed time came around she was OVER it!
It was wild!
They all had to eat a cupcake before we could go.
The BOO'ing team! We put mascara under our eyes so the kids all thought that meant we were on a football team.
Chloey running up Ben and Andre's drive way.

4 comments:

Kami said...

Sounds so fun! I love the idea and might just still the poem! Thanks for sharing! I've heard of people doing something like this at Thanksgiving time so maybe you don't have to wait until next year maybe you could do it again in November! Cute idea!

BreAnna said...

I love booing. but hardly anybody does it were we live.

Paul and Carly said...

Oh Kelsey, you are so fun... We got Boo'd out here... but I didn't really think I could do any sneaking around and running away to pass it on... so we just hung up the paper in our window. I'm starting to get a voice again. I will probably call you tomorrow when I have free minutes. Love ya

Kelly W. said...

Love, love, love the blog! We have got to get Grayson and Brilee together!