Halloween 2014

Halloween 2014 was going to be the year of costume changes. Our first were at Disney. Our second would be the ones for school and our third would be the ones for trick-or-treating.  Why not, I mean Halloween is a super fun holiday all about dressing up!  So we found your school Halloween costumes at Costco in early September and they were something that we didn't have.  So for school you ladies were dressed up as a witch and a pirate (princess)

So Mommy really wanted to wear the purple wig we have to work on Halloween so Peggy and I decided to become sugar fairies.  We were here to rid the day of processed sugar :)  So I took the purple wig, borrowed your wings and wand and viola, the sugar fairy was born.

It was really funny when we got to school.  You were telling all your friends that I was going to take their candy.  Once I got to work I found the blue sugar fairy.

While mommy was at work, you ladies at a fall festival at school where you went to the other class rooms and played games and went trick-or-treating.  After the fall festival you had your class Halloween party.  Michelle (Addy's mom) and Ashley (Maddy Grace's mom) send me a few pictures of both events.

After school we came home and changed into our trick-or-treating costumes...we are going out as a Super Hero Family!.  It was so much fun.

Spider-Girl and Bat-Girl

Captain America with his sidekicks...Spider-Girl and Bat-Girl

Wonder Woman and her sidekicks Spider-Girl and Bat-Girl

We went over to Peggy and Chris' to trick-or-treat in their neighborhood.  It is a lot of fun over there and the perfect place to go.  Since we had another set of hands we got a Super Hero Family picture. 

I didn't really take any pictures while we were out, but I did get on of a very cool house.  This year they did a ghostbusters theme, complete with the music from all the movies.

We had such a great time and got quite a bit of candy.  When we were on our way home you ladies started to talk about he sugar fairy again and wanted to know if she was going to come to the house and take all the candy and you seemed very excited about it.  We said we weren't sure if she was going to come, but she might. When you woke up in the morning you saw this....

You ladies were SO EXCITED that the sugar fairy came and took your candy and gave you new dolls.  You kept saying that it was awesome and you loved that annies bunnies and goldfish were in the bucket.  Not once did you ask for the candy the day after :)

Here is a look-back out the past 6 years of Halloween Costumes :)

Happy Halloween 2011

Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what Halloween would be like this year.  It was simply amazing!  The girls soaked in every minute of it and so did mommy and daddy.  Several months ago I had decided that the girls would be butterflies for Halloween. They really like them, the point them out and they see them at school (it happens to be the school's mascot).  What I didn't take into account was the fact that they could dress up for school.  So I had to brainstorm what they could wear to school, because we were going to go trick or treating for the first time, so they need the butterfly costumes to be in working order :-).

I decided to take an orange dress that they had (it's actually their thanksgiving dress from last year) and make a jack-o-lantern/pumpkin on the orange side.  The girls are also really into pumpkins right now so I thought that would be a perfect fit.

Here the girls are on Halloween morning before school.

Lily checking out her pumpkin

Happy Pumpkins

I also got some adorable videos of them saying "happy halloween and trick or treat."

They had a Halloween party at school and mommy was able to go.  It was the first school party that I have been to.  It was so cute to see all the little kids eating and dancing .  The girls sat at different tables so getting a group picture what not happening.

After school we went home and let the girls run around the yard so they could burn off some that the sugar they had consumed at the party and they we got ready for Halloween Part 2, aka, Trick or Treating.

We were going trick or treating with my best friend in the whole wide world Toni and her daughter Jennifer.  Jennifer is 10 months older than the girls and it is so great when they get together.

The butterflies are ready to go

I got some more adorable videos, including practicing trick or treating with daddy.

Once we got to Toni's we took some mommy and girls pictures.

 And then we were off.

We brought the wagon, so we could pull the girls and they could run up to the houses, it worked out really well.

We went up to our first house,  but no-one was home.  We were afraid that we were too early, but it was close to 630.  We knew that Peggy was home so we went over to her house next.  The was the girls "first" official trick or treating house.

The three musketeers went up to the house not really knowing what to expect, it went ok, but not great. They all just kinda stood there, and then Peggy gave them some candy and it got a little better.

We did a mini impromptu photo shoot while we were there and the pictures are adorable.

One house down, more to go.  It was about the third house that the girls really got the hang of this whole thing.  This is where something magical happened, witnessing your child experiencing something for the first time and understanding what was going on.  Now I know that these are not long-term memories, but to see the joy in their faces is something we will never forget. To witness the "older" friend waiting for her "younger" friends and the three of them running off to to the door, laughing and smiling the whole way...PRICELESS.

They would get to the door, Jennifer usually in the lead saying "lets get to the door" the girls following behind.  They would stand in a three-by-three line in front of the door, waiting for one of us to knock on the door, (they were knocking themselves by the end), saying trick-or-treat until the people opened the door.  They would all say thank you (with a little prompting) after they were given candy, and just like on the way up, the three would run back...fairy wings bouncing as they ran.  This is an image I will never forget.

What an amazing Halloween, I can't wait for next year!!!!