Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween! I love that Halloween seems to last all month. Aubrey loved all of our activities. She loved dressing up in her Lady Bug costume. She always made sure that we put on her wings and antenna too! She never pulled them off either!


So, Halloween morning all three of us went to book babies at the library. The kids wore their costumes and Aubrey really enjoyed looking at everyone. Then it was home for a nap while mommy and daddy worked on Halloween goodies. Aubrey & I went early trick-or-treating with Rachel and Zoe. They were so cute. They would both go up to the door and knock themselves. Then hold out their buckets for candy. Travel between houses was quite slow as they checked out their goods in the buckets and every so often Aubrey had to pet Zoe's bear costume. Then we came home for a few minutes until my friend Stacy and her family came trick-or-treating. Then Aubrey & I went out with them for a while. Stacy's boys really wanted to help scare people at our house so they came back with us and stayed for a while. Jeff let them use the remotes to make the monster & skeleton pop up. I think they had a lot of fun. Stacy said that they have been excited all month to come to our house. They are a little afraid of the set-up - but enjoy it and decided that they could be brave enough to come to the door.

Then all of my local siblings stopped by to see Jeff's decorations and for homemade rootbeer and spud nuts. And to see Aubrey in her costume. By 8:00 Aubrey was pretty wore out, so I got her down. Then Esther & Bryan and Katie & Elliot helped us scare some of our trick-or-treaters. I personally think that's the funnest part of Halloween. We try to watch for little ones and not scare them. It was a really fun night!

Aubrey found the bucket of candy that we were giving out and had a ball playing with it that afternoon.

Aubrey discovered that the candy fit perfectly on the blinds!

Checking out daddy's homemade rootbeer.

I am ready to go trick-or-treating mommy!

Jeff's homemade spudnuts.

All of us!

Here is a video of the yard. I don't think it does it justice. It started raining and so Jeff was in a hurry to get his stuff in the garage. So, the video was made in a hurry. But, you can see some of the new things this year.

Steve & Cindy snacking.

Katie up front and Summer in the back.

Cindy & Elliot. Cindy and her family were all dressed as the flinstones. JJ and John didn't make it inside because JJ fell asleep on the way over!

Esther & Bryan

I finally let Aubrey try out a piece of her candy. She loved the sucker!

You would think Halloween was all over for us that night. But, no, the next night we had an adult only Costume Party. We had a really good time. There was a really good turn out, funny games & good food. We especially liked the animal game. Each couple picked an animal and each wrote it on a slip of paper. The papers were all mixed up and placed in the center of the room. Everyone had to run and get a paper and then start making the animal sound. You had to find the other person making the same sound and go sit down. The last pair standing is out. It was really funny seeing all these adults running around frantically making animal sounds!

Jeff actually wore a costume so I had to document it!

The creepy cookies I made for the party.