The kids had been counting down since October 1st to last Friday when finally, FINALLY, they could don their carefully chosen costumes and traipse around the neighborhood begging for candy. They have so much fun and are such good sports - not once has anyone complained about the fact the we don't buy them new costumes (you can pick from whatever's in the dress-up bin!) - and Joey and I enjoy the evening as much as they do.
This year we crashed our old neighborhood to trick-or-treat and see some of our favorite neighbors...who we miss terribly! Plus, it's the perfect size neighborhood for trick-or-treating, big enough so the kids feel like they get the full experience, but not so big that it takes all night or we have to stop them halfway through because the little ones are exhausted. We can actually do the WHOLE neighborhood...everyone's happy. :)
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| Pre-festivities, Cassidy decided to give Finn a mohawk. |
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| Of course, Eli had to have one, too! |
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| For months Finn had planned to be "Little Mac," the character from Nintendo's Punch Out video game, but at the last minute he changed his mind and decided to be Funshine Bear instead...a pretty smart choice since it was a tad nippy that night! |
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| Eli was a puppy dog, fitting since his siblings play fetch with him like he is REALLY a dog. This was how he practiced for the evening, "Ruff, ruff...TRICK-OR-TREAT!" |
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| Our Boys |
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| Lily as Elsa...we saw 3 other Elsa's just in our little neighborhood. |
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| Cassidy as a Bell Hop...she was very irritated that people kept calling her a stewardess! She also insisted on dragging this suitcase - her prop - with her around the neighborhood! Bell hop or stewardess, she was very cute in her costume! :) |
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| Our Girls |
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| Poor Emerson. I had no costume for her so she had to settle for wearing Finn's old tiger costume that was too big and made her look like a boy. I tried to girlie it up with a pink bow, but I have a feeling she's going to be pointing at this picture one day and demanding to know why everyone but her had a cute 1st Halloween costume! Ah, the trials of being the baby! |
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| Our Sweet Bunny as a Tiger |
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5 Little Monkeys
(Can you believe we got one with everyone looking at the camera...and most of them smiling???) |
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| Trick-or-Treating Fun...Eli is chillin' in his "car." He insisted on riding, even if it was on 10 feet to the next house! |
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| Cassidy didn't complain once about dragging that heavy suitcase around the neighborhood! :) |
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