Halloween 2007

Mom, Brynlee, Addyson, Mema and Pepa made it out to the ward trunk or treat/chili cook off this year with great success. Dad was on on call at the hospital that night, unfortunately, and missed the event . So we decided to go with an earth theme this year for costumes. Brynlee is sporting the latest in Lady Bug wear which brought her plenty of ohhs and ahhs from lookers on. And how can you go wrong with Addyson as a pea in a pod.

Of all holidays of the year I would have to say that Halloween is my (Ethan's) least favorite. I never liked the sinister and evil part of the day. Ghosts, goblins and witches are not aspects of any day that I would call good, especially not a HOLIDAY. The only redeeming value that Halloween has over, say, flag day is the cute costumes and the mounds and mounds of high fructose corn syrup and chocolate that is freely doled out to any kid that can utter, "Trick or Treat!"

My favorite costume of all time was when I dressed up as a Ninja. I remember too the haul I brought in that year surpassed any that I had or any that I would have. I think we feasted on the catch for an extra few months. Krista, on the other hand, can only recall one costume of all her youth worth remembering and that was dressing up like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. She indicates it also yielded her plenty of persuasion power to get an extra dip in the trick or treat candy bowls. I applaud the efforts of various of our friends that went with a family themed costumes this year, with such things as the Wizard of Oz or The Incredibles. I get a sense that if we are to keep up with the Joneses, we will have to do better than Mom and Dad putting on a wig for a costume.

Which brings me to my next topic, though I don't especially like the day, I can still appreciate when some semblance of an effort is made to obtain candy from our house. I was surprised at the number of kids that came to our door with no sign of costume or Halloween. I even had some kids who just stood there with their plastic bags open, saying nothing, like I owe them the candy. Tell me, is this the state of the youth today to walk from door to door expecting us to reward them for the mere act of ambulation? I think not.

In all, Halloween passed this year without incident or nightmares and we were able to move onto to the great day of November 3.

Brynlee turned 2 on Sept. 13th. She loves purses, buttons and trucks (yes that's right our little princess loves trucks!) She is loving having a new baby sissy!

So here it is. The first blog that has made its way onto the world wide web that bears the namesake of the Ethan and Krista Dalley Family. Perhaps this blog will be entertaining, or perhaps it will be boring, but either way it is something for you to keep up with us, if desired, or at least give you something to do to kill time when ESPN or ebay are on the fritz. Hopefully you will enjoy, but I give this one caution, you will more than likely find no high eyebrow/scholastic declarations and theorems herein. Rather a nice blog about a nice family from the nice area of West Texas. SO make sure you have your Primaquin shots in place and proceed at your own risk.