We sure lucked out this year and got a fabulously warm Halloween night which worked out GREAT, considering Ariel could not wear a long sleeve shirt over her strong arm and a jacket would cover her beautiful mermaid fin! We began our festivities with some pumpkin carving (okay the kids painted, I made a lame simple jack o lantern and Swifty truly carved. In case you can't tell Swifty's is the really cool one also known as Aku the evil wizard! KB did an amazing job making a face all by herself and Buster loved "helping everyone else". 
We had a fun dinner at a friend's house consisting of pumpkin, witch hats, cat vegetables and yummy candy orange rolls (which was the only thing Buster even attempted to put in his mouth). We then used the fun little neighborhood by them to trick or treat. Ariel rode in the stroller most of the time (at our request, she fell almost every step she took). Our cute little Rar-rar, who could not wait to put on his costume and was even excited to have his nose and whiskers painted so he looked like rar-rar, was very slow to go at first. Then Swifty pulled out a piece of candy and let him have it. After that Buster ran from house to house with his Elmo bucket. He even spoke to a few people. Sometime during the night one of our friends warned us of a bump in the sidewalk so KB was aware of it, all we heard from Buster after that was "BUMP" at every crack in the sidewalk. One of the houses had a pumpkin with its guts coming out of its mouth, we laughed at how mesmerized the kids were by this one pumpkin. I guess Dad will have to start carving the pumpkins from his childhood to impress our kids. It sure made us miss those Crazy pumpkins our uncles do!
Buster finally going up to a house without dada
We had a fun dinner at a friend's house consisting of pumpkin, witch hats, cat vegetables and yummy candy orange rolls (which was the only thing Buster even attempted to put in his mouth). We then used the fun little neighborhood by them to trick or treat. Ariel rode in the stroller most of the time (at our request, she fell almost every step she took). Our cute little Rar-rar, who could not wait to put on his costume and was even excited to have his nose and whiskers painted so he looked like rar-rar, was very slow to go at first. Then Swifty pulled out a piece of candy and let him have it. After that Buster ran from house to house with his Elmo bucket. He even spoke to a few people. Sometime during the night one of our friends warned us of a bump in the sidewalk so KB was aware of it, all we heard from Buster after that was "BUMP" at every crack in the sidewalk. One of the houses had a pumpkin with its guts coming out of its mouth, we laughed at how mesmerized the kids were by this one pumpkin. I guess Dad will have to start carving the pumpkins from his childhood to impress our kids. It sure made us miss those Crazy pumpkins our uncles do!Buster finally going up to a house without dada The friends we could capture in the picture
Ariel showing Cruella Devil her cool green glow stick, and Cruella commenting on how she also has a cool glow stick!
Our sweet kids took their own sweet time trick or treating while all of their friends were off and running. They make me laugh, but I am truly grateful for how excited they are to just stop and enjoy themselves.
Look at all that LOOT!
