Halloween Fun

I really enjoy Halloween a lot more since we have had the girls.  I love dressing up and going trick or treating with them.  I know the days of dressing up and being a ‘wanted’ part of this activity are limited.  Before I know it they will want mom and dad to keep their distance while they go with their friends.  But for now Scott and I are enjoying this holiday.  This year the girls wanted to be their princesses, meaning that they wanted to dress up like their baby dolls.  So a funny story on these baby dolls, for their first Christmas Scott and I bought them baby princess dolls we gave them to each based on hair color.  So Emma got Cinderella since her hair was the lightest color brown, Olivia got Snow White since her hair was the darkest by a good bit, and Savannah got Belle.  Well about a year and a half ago they really started playing with the dolls and Savannah said that Snow White was hers and so Olivia played with Belle.  I don’t know why Savannah decided that Snow White was hers but since no one every complained we let them switch.  They love everything that has to do with their ‘princess’.   Here they are as their princesses, I think Savannah actually looks a lot like Snow White (minus the dark black hair of course).

Emma



Olivia

Savannah

 

 

I was excited they choose to be princesses because that allowed me to dress up like a queen.  Finding a queen costume was not very easy though, especially since I wanted a nice regal looking queen costume.  I finally found some material at a yard sale that would do, however, I found it only a few weeks before Halloween so Kathy helped me pin it together instead cutting and sewing it.  Thank goodness she was available that night to help me get into my costume as it required a lot of pins.
 

Getting everyone ready was quite a task luckily I had some help from our nanny and Kathy came over, Scott ended up being almost 2 hours late which really put a lot of stress on me.  I had to do everyone’s hair and get them dressed and do pictures.  I’m so fortunate that our nanny was able to stay an extra hour to help out.  If her and Kathy had not been there I would not have gotten such great pictures of the girls.

 

My sister and her family usually come to trick or treat with us but decided to stay in their new neighborhood this year, unfortunately that meant my parents did not come either.  We missed not having a big crowd like in years past.  The evening was overcast and a bit chilly.  At first the girls were so excited that they ran/walked around the houses on our street.  Then about half way through the small loop we do they decided they would rather ride in the wagon wrapped up in their blankets.  Scott was pulling them right up to the doors so they could put out their buckets and get the candy.  They were doing a great job at playing the role of ‘princesses’.  Scott decided he should have been the horse instead of the King since he was just pulling them around.  I also decided I should have been the servant and not the Queen as I was playing the role of servant when the girls needed something and when they couldn’t get close enough to get the candy I was the one running buckets back and forth while they sat there looking pretty.  We had lots of candy in the end and the girls were allowed to pick out 2 pieces when they got home.  Scott and I helped them go through their candy (we had to take a few of our favorites Reese’s PB cups for Scott and Twix for me).  They got all of the usual chocolate candy but also this year there were a lot of Spree candies which I hadn’t seen in years.  Their favorite candy was the lollipops, tootsie rolls, and smarties.