Boo!

Happy Halloween!

I hope you had a great trick or treat! We sure did. Our afternoon here was gorgeous, so I took about an hour after Abby got home from school and did a little big of yard work since we were going to have a fair amount of people trooping up on our porch. I got quite a bit of stuff trimmed up.

While I worked, the girls played and Abby was on a mission to rake leaves into a good jumping pile. You should know that we don't really have any big trees in our yard because our neighborhood isn't very old. She did a pretty good job. (and some help jumping from Lily and a neighbor)

... and at last... Trick or Treat!

We had the cutest Garden Gnome and Cowgirl you ever did see!

Lily also LOVED passing out candy. When we finally moved in from our seats on the porch, everytime the doorbell rang, she would run for the door yelling "Trick or Treat!"

And here are our pumpkins....

This year each girl designed her own, and I used a drill on mine to create a polka dotted pumpkin (messy, but fun).

Happy Halloween

Here is Miss Ariel, the Little Mermaid for Halloween.  She got very excited, especially once she got her costume on.  She decided that she wanted Daddy to take her Trick-or-Treating, which was okay with Mommy, because Mommy was exhausted after teaching all day.  

Carving our Jack-o-lantern

We went to the pumpkin patch this weekend, it was now time for the carving. We actually got Abby to put her hand in the pumpkin this year, so we had to capture it on film (though she still didn't like it). I love the family picture of us. Another pregnancy picture for posterity's sake.

Abby also insisted that her pumpkin had eyes like hers: "ovals". She did not want triangles. (I compromised a little)  She also required it to have ears, so we obliged.

The Pumpkin Patch

Here are a few rememberances from our trip to the Pumpkin Patch this year...

Halloween Costumes

So, we are planning for another Halloween.  It will be Abby's fourth, but really only her third costume.  The first year she was still a newborn so we didn't do much.  As we started talking about costumes with her, we narrowed it down to Disney costumes because we had a rewards card we could spend at the Disney Store.  I pulled up the costumes on the computer and we looked through them.  At first, Abby was certain she wanted to be Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story.  Then she wanted to be Belle, from Beauty and the Beast.  We were pretty set until we actually went to get it this weekend.  She changed her mind completely and decided she must be Arielle from the Little Mermaid.  This should come as no surprise to family who knows that she adores this movie as much, if not more, than Cinderella.  she is very excited about it because we even bought the fancy shoes and crown that goes with it.  As a backup she got to get a Belle nightgown that she loves.  She dances around the house in it and it does look adorable.  Here is a backwards retrospective on Abby's Halloween costumes.

Halloween 2008:  Coming soon!

Halloween 2007: A Dragonfly

This was the first year that she "got" trick or treating.  We also went to Zoo Boo, which is where this picture is from.  I love the true grin.

Halloween 2006: A Chicken

I'm pretty sure she didn't really understand what was going on, but she was so hilariously cute in her chicken costume.