Our Halloween started out with us making treats to take to Christian's class party. We made funfetti cake batter popcorn (which I didn't care for, but I'm not a white chocolate fan) to pass out to all of his friends. Isn't my helper so cute?
Then I helped out in his classroom and we did some cute Halloween games with the kids. They got to go trick-or-treating next door to the school...there's my cute little mouse in the back.
And as requested from the toddler, I dressed up as a cat for Halloween.
After school, it was naps and then time for costumes!
First of all let me just say, I was the most excited ever about this year's Halloween costumes. I've been planning them for awhile and didn't tell anyone what we were doing. I couldn't wait to see the faces of people handing out candy...however, mother nature had other plans in mind! It was seriously bitter cold, wet, rainy and snowing...yes, snow. Welcome to the Ohio Valley, where the weather is as unpredictable as an episode of Game of Thrones (if you haven't read the books, of course...).
I knew it was going to be arctic cold though, so I put the boys in their sleepers, then another layer on top of that...and then their costumes. When I took their clothes off at the end of the night, their legs were still nice & toasty, so I know my ridiculous layering worked. ;) ANYWHO, on to the important part...what were they?!? Oh, only the 2 best characters from the greatest movie ever...and I do have to say, if you disagree with me there, we might not make it as friends!
Yep, that's right...FORREST GUMP AND LIEUTENANT DAN. I mean, can you feel my excitement from the computer? I loved these costumes! I saw a similar idea on Pinterest years ago and immediately thought to myself, "If I ever have 2 boys, I am SO doing this." And it's funny, as soon as I found out that Gavin was a boy, I immediately thought about their first Halloween and these costumes.
Aside from the hat, which I ordered online, I was able to pull everything from their closets. Talk about a cheap costume!
We took the boys to my mom's house first, then Dustin's parents, my grandparents and then off to our friend's house to trick-or-treat with all the kiddos. Although, between us all chasing after multiple children and freezing our butts off, we totally sucked and didn't get a group shot of the kiddos. Fail.
We managed to trick-or-treat for about 20 minutes before we couldn't feel our hands anymore and headed back inside. I was super bummed that the awesome costumes didn't get used to their full potential, but Christian had fun, we got way too much candy and the parents all loved it...so it wasn't a total loss. ;)
(The only picture I took of them trick-or-treating...fail again)
I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! I can't believe it's over...but I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of ready to pack away Jack movie until next year...it kind of loses it's awesomeness after 3 weeks straight every.single.day.
Oh, and I'll leave with you some AWESOME pictures from the Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular. This was seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Over 5,000 pumpkins lit through the woods...just amazing. Aside from the grinch of the family (do you even have to ask? Of course I mean Gavin), we all loved it.
It's been great Halloween, but now it's time for another awesome holiday...THANKSGIVING...aka...mashed potatoes and gravy day.
Thanks for reading!
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