Halloween 2012

Ok, time to play a little catch-up…

I’m a little late with this, but it’s time for wrap-up of our Halloween events! We’ve just been so so busy…fairs, festivals, Halloween parties, birthday parties…oh my!

I have so many photos I want to share too (thanks to Mr. Photographer!) so let’s get this started! First order of business…our costumes! We were a family of pirates!

As I mentioned HERE, we had several ideas that we liked, but ultimately decided to be pirates after succumbing to the cuteness of this baby pirate costume!

He’s standing on his own! Well, at least thanks to the help of Photoshop haha. How funny is that photo?! He looks like he’s about to topple forward. My hand is behind him grasping his costume, which is why it kind of looks like it’s being pulled back, but I want to take a photo of his costume like this every year and we didn’t want my arm in the photo!

We thought it was a good choice because Brett and I can reuse our costumes in the future at Disney World since Brett’s costume was basically Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean. Plus Brett already had the pirate hat from buying it at Disney a few years ago, which worked out perfectly since the hat that came with his costume was a dud.

On the Saturday before Halloween we went to Brett’s mom’s annual Halloween party. This year’s party was extra special because our friends got married there right before the party!

Everything was so beautiful…the hand-fasting ceremony was in the front yard…

the food was inside the house…

and the party was in the backyard…

and Trent was the perfect little pirate ring bearer!

I was nervous about how he would do during the ceremony…I was scared he would get bored and start whining, but he did so well and was quiet the entire time!

After the ceremony, we chowed down on some greek food and Halloween-themed desserts. Brett made sugar cookie monster fingers, bat brains (green rice krispy treats), and vampire-bitten cupcakes with blood (strawberry) filling.

The house is always decorated to the max.

I loved that the wedding and Halloween party were combined. How else could you get a photo of bride and groom during their first slow dance with an adult sock monkey looking on in the background??

Trent loved the sock monkey and would stare at him whenever they were in the same room.

It was such a fun night. Trent got scared a couple of times with all the spooky shenanigans and people in costumes, but he quickly got used to it and sat outside with me dancing to the music for quite a while. He probably had the most fun when he was dancing with me, his Nana and Auntie Jessi to Gangnam Style! I switched the lyrics around a little and kept singing “Heeeyy sexy baby!”

Trent was a little party animal before getting his jammies on and sleeping in his pack n play before heading home. It was definitely helpful that his bed time is typically pretty late anyway.

For Halloween, Brett cut this awesome pumpkin to go on our front porch alongside Trent’s pumpkin.

We bundled up to quickly go outside and take a look once Brett was finished and Trent was fascinated by it.

On Halloween night, we all put on our costumes and sat outside to pass out candy to trick-or-treaters!

Trent was Mr. Talkative to all the little kids that came up for candy. While they were standing in front of him, he would reach out and make noises. After a little while, we headed back inside for our bedtime routine while Brett continued to wait for any more trick-or-treaters. Unfortunately, we didn’t get that many this year. Most families tend to get in the car and drive to other neighborhoods where the houses are closer together…add to that the fact that Halloween was on a Wednesday and that equals too much leftover candy at our house. :( Oh well, more Reese’s for me!

This led us to discussing future Halloween plans. Brett loves decorating the house and wants to lead the way to get more houses in our neighborhood to decorate. But if you decorate your house, then you pretty much have to pass out candy. However, I want to take Trent trick-or-treating and want Brett to come too. We’ll be going to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party in the future too where they pass out tons of candy, so maybe that could be considered our trick-or-treating. So my question is: how do you do both without splitting up the parents? Does anyone else have this dilemma? We didn’t come to a conclusion, so I’d love to hear your experiences or suggestions in the comments!

 

In case you missed it, check out Trent’s Fall photos and his first pumpkin painting!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween!

 

xoxo

Lynn

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