halloween 2011....

Halloween this year was an absolute blast.  The boys are at the best age and they loved every bit of it!  Charlie did not have his heart set on a particular halloween costume this year so we threw a few ideas around and once this idea came up, we knew it was the one.......

Angry Birds!!!!

These costumes were pretty fun to put together and I was so grateful that there was no face painting involved and they were easy to put on and take off. 

Since we don't really know any of our new neighbors, we decided to go to our old neighborhood for trick-or-treating.  It was so nice to see some of our old friends that we haven't seen for a few years and they were pretty surprised to see us at their doorstep! 

I wasn't too suprised that Cannon caught right on to the whole concept of trick-or-treating.  He was all over the candy and couldn't walk fast enough at the beginning.  He is still young enough that he wasn't too scared of the scary decorated doorsteps.  He would just march right by the spiders and zombies and hold out his bucket and yell "Tick O Treat!"  As the night wore on he did slow down but he became worried that we were going to stop soon. After every house he would get a concerned look and say "One more house please?"

Charlie did great too.  In the past he hasn't had much endurance when it came to trick-or-treating.  We would go to a handful of houses and then he would be done.  This year he wanted to keep going and was very proud of his haul.

I would say that Halloween 2011 was a major success!

halloween 2010....

We knew for a while that Charlie wanted to be a lego minifigure for Halloween. I mean really, we all knew that was coming, right? And of course, I looked high and low and nobody actually sells a lego minfigure costume. So, once again, we were going to be making Charlie's costume this year just as we did last year and the year before. This costume was quite the project and as we made our 23rd trip to Hope Depot to get yet another supply, Eric and I looked at each other wondering if we were completely crazy. Charlie was thrilled so that makes it all worth it I suppose. The costume was a pretty big success. Everywhere we went people were commenting about it. Charlie even won the costume contest at his school and was quite proud of himself.

Here in Utah, everybody went trick-or-treating on Saturday. We weren't happy about this but we didn't want the kids to miss out, so we followed their tradition and went on Saturday. (Utah even celebrated the 4th of July on Saturday instead of Sunday this year, CRAZY!!!) It started to rain at about 4pm and it didn't let up for hours. Bummer.



Neither of the kids were having much fun in the rain, so we headed to the mall. Along with everybody else in the city. It was a total zoo and most of the stores were out of candy early.
We gave up and headed to Target to just buy some candy. The kids were happy with that. We ended the night with a quick dinner at In-N-Out, and the adults were happy with that!

Hope you all had a fabulous Halloween!