Good Time

A good time was had by all this Halloween.
We started the afternoon off by doing some errands in town. I had to go to K-Mart to pick up some scripts and try to find Bre a crown to go with her costume. She already has a collection of crowns but they are all broken and won't stay on her head for long. Next we went to Hibbett's Sports and JCP looking for basketball shoes for Marcus. We also grabbed our last meal of actual food for the day (sorry I don't count candy as real food).
Bre wore her princess costume during it all. I can not begin to say how many times we heard "ahh she is so cute". Of course she ate all the attention up.
Our first stop for candy was dad and Shirley's house. There Marcus changed into his costume for the night. I can not say it enough...him in this costume is the one of the funniest things if not the funniest, I have ever seen. More on that in a minute.
Many roads are flooded from all the heavy rains this week. I hated it but I didn't feel safe driving down the two gravel roads to get to great grandma's and Uncle Charles's. Sorry Joey, I know you always want them to go but the roads were covered in water. We did make it to MaryLou and Jonathan's though.
Next we stopped at a local convenience store. OMG it was so funny watching Marcus try to fit in through the door. Once inside the lady that owns the place busted out laughing and said "I have to start bringing a camera in here". Marcus then attempted to turn around and knocked over a whole display of chips. He kept saying "mom everyone is laughing at me". I asked him what in the world he expected wearing that, for people to be scared? He just smiled and embraced his size for the night.
We then went to meet Marcus's friends at Sammy's. We wanted the 'gang' to get together this year since it may very well be the last year that they all go trick-or-treating. Next year they will be in Jr. High and not want to be our little boys anymore. So Sammy, Cody, Greg, and Marcus piled in the back of Gary's truck for the night.

This post is interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System.....Dylan called to say he is OK now but he and his car were floating earlier. There seems to be some contact with the road again at this time.
I repeat I am too young to be the mother of a 16 year old!!!
Long story short my oldest was out cruising the gravels and thought, yes thought, he could make it through the water over the road. Guess what? He couldn't! At this present time Jonathan is in the driver's seat with Dylan riding shotgun while the car is being pulled backwards through the flooded road cause it is too deep to pull it on through the other way.
I am sitting here laughing cause, well what else can I do? It is either laugh or cry and I choose laughter.

Update....as if anyone is still up reading at this time of night.
Dylan is home (his car is not) and so are his two hostages, I mean passengers. They are all safe and sound and I am pleased to announce the glow sticks around their necks remained unharmed despite the flood waters (I do have a sick sense of humor I know).
I am too tired and hysterical to go into major details I will just say that the water was deep enough that Jonathan had to dump out his KNEE high rubber boots when he was done with the rescue.
I am going to bed and try to chill out enough to fall asleep. Of course Bre will be up early but that isn't my problem. Oh no, that is Dylan's problem cause he will be the one watching her while I sleep in the morning. Yep the punishment has already started.