Halloween was so much fun this year. Not that we don’t have fun every year. But this year we got to go with BB and Wito too.

We started out at the mall, but that was a bust. Go figure that they changed the policy this year.

So instead we hit the neighborhood and had a blast. After making the rounds with Whoorl and Wito we headed back to SAJ’s hitting every house along the way.

Once back at SAJ’s the girls and I set out on our own. We crossed PCH and hit up the houses closer to the beach. It was great except for the utter darkness. There are no street lights and there wasn’t much of a moon. Actually I don’t remember seeing the moon at all.

SuperChic tired out after three or four more blocks and Papa had to come get her. I sent her back with about 6 pieces of candy and permission to eat all of it if she ate her dinner. I was told she ate two bites of dinner than went to bed. Candy-schmandy she just wanted Mommy.

At this point Rapunzel was getting a little spooked in all the darkness but no where ready to call it quits. She was getting handfuls of candy from every house. And we were repeatedly told you’re only the second, third, fourth person we’ve had all night. Here take some more.

Do you know what that means? It means we have an entire backpack full of candy. How much candy does it take to fill up a backpack? Fifteen pounds of candy. Yes, you read that right I said fifteen pounds of candy.

It’s even good candy. No funky mints and hard candy that no one likes. Lots of chocolate bars, pretzels, peanut butter (which SuperChic constantly tried to take out of her princess pumpkin all night long.), tootsie rolls, gummy food, and more.

Of course being the fair mommy that I am I divided all the candy equally. I started by removing all the peanut butter from SuperChic’s bag and setting it aside for Daddy. Next I removed Rapunzel’s peanut butter stuff and set it aside. Finally we combine all the candy and sort it by type. All the candy was equally divided and anything left over was set aside for SuperChic to look over. SuperChic gets one piece out of the surplus for every piece of Rapunzel’s peanut butter candy. Then if they have something they don’t want they can trade between themselves.

The good thing about this much candy is I can put some of it aside and use it for Christmas stocking stuffers.

More photos here.

As I’m sure you’ve all read by now SAJ has been robbed. Of course when you’re as talented as she is it should be expected. Not that that makes it right.

She was notified by AlphaMom that one of the illustrations she  sold to them was being used by another site. And not just a little bit. It’s in the masthead, on two other blogs, and all over cafe press.

SAJ has notified the site  that they have until midnight tonight to remove the graphic. So far they haven’t done anything but take down any comments that were posted by SAJ’s followers. (Go Bloggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

SAJ has notified cafe press, as well as other bloggers. So Cafe Press has done two things, first when you clicked on the product it would come up as unavailable, and now it lists nothing under what is available to purchase.  So at least this will stop some of the problem until the issue is resolved.

SAJ isn’t really looking for a monetary compensation she just wants the graphic removed. But, if she has to hire a lawyer she may seek monetary compensation.

What does TheMomsBuzz have to say about it? That they purchased the graphic from an artist that told them it was an original graphic. The only “original” part is the laptop and slight color variation.

If you’ve been reading SAJ for a while you probably remember the mySpace Smacdown of last Summer.  So this is not the first time she’s had to deal with this issue. But hopefully it’ll be the last.

Spread the word that theMomsBuzz is bad mojo and we should all stay away from them and those that support them.