We were Boo'd!

In my neighborhood, some families begin "Boo-ing" each other during the Halloween season.  This usually entails doorbell ditching a small bag of treats along with a piece of paper that tells you to make your own 2 goodie bags and forward it on to 2 of your friends in the neighborhood.  You have 24 hours to complete it and then you have to put a piece of paper on your door that says "BOO!"  In the past, we've never gotten Boo'd, mainly because we didn't really know anyone in our neighborhood.

Cue last night...last night was a crazy night.  We're having some friends over tonight for dinner so I was scrambling around cleaning up, vacuuming, and baking dessert since it has to sit for 24 hours.  Just when I was about to put the crust in the oven, my doorbell rings.  Now normally when our doorbell rings, it's someone trying to sell something so I was in NO rush to open it.  I put the pan in the oven, set the time, and finally get to the door, only to find out that no one is there except a bag full of treats.  

I'm not going to lie...I was excited.  Unfortuntely, Ashley was already asleep so she had to find out this morning.  And what was crazy is the amount of things in Boo bag.  I always thought it was just full of candy and maybe a page of stickers and that you had to make 1 bag to pass on but here were the contents of our Boo bag:

- Candy (a given)

- Super cute Ponytail holder with halloween colored ribbon (which Ashley adores!)

- Halloween necklace (Ashley loves this too!)

- Packet of glow sticks

- Pad of Halloween paper (I plan to steal this and bring it to work :))

- Halloween Tiara

- Pencils

- Gooey Skeleton

- Glow in the Dark Stickers

- Halloween dish scrubber

- Halloween water toy

and I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some other things.  

Seriously?!?  This was the mother-of-all goodie bags, so of course I had to make my goodie bags just as fun...

So, in the midst of all of the things I already had to get done, now I had to make these Boo bags and somehow deliver them within 24 hours when it's dark even though we're having people over the next night!  So I rush out to Target, load up on trinkets, come home, make the bags (they're not really bags though since I couldn't find any, so they were cauldrons) and thank goodness for Jeff, he went and delivered them at 9:30pm.  I would normally feel bad for ringing people's doorbells that late but it was then or nothing and I didn't want to ruin it on my first year!

All in all, it was totally fun.  I only hope next year Ashley will be awake for it and can come with me to the store to pick out the items for the bags and then she can help me deliver them, even though her giggling will totally give us away.  Thanks to whomever Boo'd us!