Halloween!

It was a wet Halloween, but I think I would call it a successful one.

How about you??????

Alex's candy bag was 3/4 full of candy and the kids didn't

trick or treat too long either.

It's pretty safe to say the kids have had some sort of

candy for breakfast all week long.

Their Costumes

Alex saw a Mario costume at Toys R Us and decided he wanted to be Mario.  I didn't think the costume was worth the twenty dollars so I emailed a friend of mine whose kids were Mario and Luigi last year and asked if we could borrow the hats.  She agreed and the rest of the costume was pretty simple.  At the last minute, Alex agreed to be Luigi because he is taller and Carter was Mario.  They were adorable!

The girls kept going back and forth and couldn't decide on a costume.  I told them I wasn't about to spend forty dollars on a costume again so they needed to get creative or reuse an older costume.  (We have a pile of them in the toy room).   The night before their Halloween parade they decided they were going as babies.  Easy enough.  I bought footed Jammies and binkies and we had everything else we needed to pull off their costumes.  (And I am blogging out of order, Nadya has braces.  I'll post  about that soon!)

The kids had all their Halloween festivities on Thursday.  (All except Carter)  I bounced back and forth between their two schools to try and catch all the action.  I think I spent most my time searching for parking spots though. 

Alex's School

The Girls' School

(Each pictured with their teacher, Nadya with her friend,

and Josie on the bottom)

Carter had trunk or treating at his school on Saturday.

Alex enjoyed seeing some of his friends too!

They filled their bag about 1/3 of the way full in ten minutes or less.

We came back to the house for our annual soup dinner before trick or treating.

Soup, witches fingers, fruit, and witches brew!

Our Trick or Treating Crew

Trick or Treating Around the Neighborhood

We made our way around the neighborhood before the rain started again, 

which was good because Alex was so worried about the weather.  He kept asking me prior to Halloween what happened if it snowed or rained.  The things kids worry about!   We all had a spooktacular Halloween!