TRICK OR TREAT

As much as I love the Fall I could really do without Halloween. I think it's the silliest holiday. I love a good dress-up party but it's so weird to exchange candy with your neighbors. I really tried to get out of celebrating it this year but who am I trying to kid?? I used to love planning the kid's costumes and sewing them all but lately, and especially this year no one knew what they were going to be until the day before Halloween. I didn't stress about it, I was just grateful for our costume box that I've slaved over for years. The kids took all responsibility this year for their own costume.

I wasn't so much in the mood for a scary front porch as I was just a cute and cozy one. You can't see our mums or our candles. Adyson was in charge of our pumpkin sacks. She saved newspapers for days and days to fill those up. She even went around and took the neighbor's newspapers before she realized that they might want to read those papers. She folded them up and took them back to their driveway.
Maryn was such a cute ladybug. Her first choice was to be a "gangster" wearing baggy pants and sweatshirt...then with the help of Marianne, she realized that being a gangster wouldn't be dressing up to a lot of people and she might just fit right in at school. So she opted for a cutsy ladybug instead. I love that she loves to dress-up for school. (I think at her age I was too self conscious to do that).

Adyson's music teacher gives little prizes to the kids in their class who wear glitter, hearts, starts, anything celebrating a holiday etc. The more they wear the more prizes they get. Ady wanted to go all out for her music teacher. I wish I would have gotten her wearing her orange and black striped socks too. She did get lots of prizes this day. By the way... Ady picks out her clothes at night sleep in them. I think it would be a little uncomfortable myself especially on this night with leggings and a denim skirt and 2 shirts, but it saves SO much time in the morning.

Ady's real costume... She said she was a GO-GO girl.

Emmy was the best cheerleader ever. She had her usual enthusiasm and entertained us with cheers ALL night long. I was SO proud of her wearing that white shirt to cover her tummy without me even telling her too.

Kaden got to dress up for the Kid's Klub (at the gym where I go). They trick-or-treated around the building.

A few months ago when I asked Kaden what he wanted to be for Halloween without even hesitating he said, "a firefighter." He was so cute and tough in this costume. It still amazes me that he knows to pick out the BOY costumes even though he's surrounded by princess dresses and girlie things. How do they know that boys should be football players and firefighters? Jeff couldn't be prouder of that!

A tired firefighter.

Kaden was ready to be done trick-or-treating when his bucket got too heavy. He was so happy with his work.

I can't remember but I think Jeff wanted to be a Go-Go girl too.

Except for the length of things Ady can fit perfectly in Kaden's clothes. This firefighter outfit was no exception. She just couldn't resist.

Somehow I never get any pictures taken of me... but Maryn is wearing MY costume. She learned to pose like that from Jeff's side of the family.

Jeff getting into the Halloween spirit by dressing up again and having his own spooky football game, cheerleader and all.

We had our friend and realtor, Dana Kohut as well as the Debenhams over for some yummy soup and food. The night sort of came and went too fast to get into our planned games, but, it was a fun night and it didn't even rain.

Happy Halloween!!!