This Is Halloween. This Is Halloween.

In short, this Halloween season was the best.

 

We took the kids on their first ever haunted hayride (Narls loved it, Em not so much).

 

There were many an evening spent with candles and TWD and Beetlejuice.

We met up with friends at our town's Monster Mash family Halloween party.

And snuck in spiked hot chocolates for our annual trip to Crossroads.

Indulged on many festive foods & drinks.

And watched Em and her besties do a Halloween-themed flash mob dance at the Farmers' Market.

A friend and I bought (and stuffed!) 28 plastic pumpkins for our kiddo's second grade class party.

 

Clay and I spent Halloween morning jetting between our two favorite little people's Fall Festival classroom parties.

 

And then we spent THE COLDEST & SNOWIEST HALLOWEEN NIGHT EVER trick or treating. Seriously! In. the. snow. My fingers were froze despite being tightly clenched around a steamy mug of a caramel vodka hot chocolate so I only took two pictures that in no way even come close to the amount of snow that was falling. It was cold. And snowy. I can't reiterate that enough.

 

But fun. Oh, so much fun.

Tradition.

2014 

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011 

 

2010

 

2009

(we were here, but at only seven months old, Em was too little to sit unassisted in front of the display)

Pumpkin Carving is the Best.

 

All was well & wonderful until the Charlie Brown show ended and I had the wonderful idea of watching Coraline because someone on my facebook posted about how great it was and Narls is like two years older than our first attempt at watching it and it should be ok now.

 

Nope.

 

We made it about 25 minutes farther than we did two years ago and the night ended in tears from Narls (I told you I didn't want to watch this movie ever again in my life!) and tears from Emerson (I want to finish it! This is the bestest movie eva!) and a fight between Clay and myself because what did I expect would happen anyway and I shoulda just listened to him in the first place. 

 

But hey, at least our pumpkins look good.

Halloween, In All It's Glory

 

Halloween 2013 was, in one word, awesome.

 

From the decorations:

to the costumes:

and of course the food:

We partied first grade style:

and pre-k style:

and ballet class style:

Pretty sure trick-or-treating for the eight kiddos was successful:

as was the drinking-in-the-rain for the eight adults:

And what good Halloween doesn't end in ghost stories:

 

and going through the candy:

Cannot wait for next year.

Happy Halloween!

2013

2009 through 2012
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Traditions and Memories, Halloween Style

It's a Church tradition to take our kiddos through Crossroads Village for their annual Ghosts and Goodies trick-or-treating. And just like prior years, 2012 and 2011, it was a great time.

Narls' first ferris wheel ride. He was positive he was going to throw up, then "the feeling went away" and all was well. I don't think he'll be first in line to ride another one though.

 



Magic show! Em's favorite part :)

 

Another year of making memories ♥

Halloween Extravaganza!

This was one of the busiest Halloweens my little family has ever experienced.

Narls and Em could barely fall asleep the night before (Halloween ranks right up there with Christmas in our house) and they even slept in costumes.

Clay and I were at Em's preschool at 11am to watch her Halloween program. Homegirl sang her heart out!

 

Then it was off to Narls' school where we volunteered at his Fall Festival from noon til 3.

 

We made it to Clay's work for some cubicle trick-or-treating at 4.

And then back home by 5 to meet up with our friends for trick-or-treating in our subdivision.

The entire day was worth every minute. 
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