Halloween 2014

The kids were super adorable again this year for Halloween.  I put zero effort into Halloween; the kids wear whatever hand-me-down costume we have from their cousins.  Conveniently for me, my kids have no opinion about what they want to wear.  I think is mostly due to the fact that I don't make a big deal of Halloween, Disney movies, or superheroes.  Little ones in fuzzy animal costumes is the cutest thing in my opinion and I will make every effort to dress at least one of them in one as long as I can (and I have a hand-me-down).  

The hand-me-down for Braylen was a Mickey Mouse costume.  When we tried it on months ago, it looked huge on him, so we put together a Bob the Builder looking costume as a back up.  It was chilly tonight therefore we opted for the Mickey costume.  He was so stinkin adorable in it; I'm glad we went with the animal costume

Shockingly, he did not touch the hood once

Miss Evie was a cheerleader.  

Just for the blog record- this was the year of Disney's movie Frozen. I saw many girls dressed as Elsa and Anna.

Yesterday, Daddio did his yearly job of carving the family pumpkin(s).  Daddio takes great pride in his two creative jobs: Kids' birthday cakes and pumpkin carving.  A friend shared a really cool pumpkin they made using their drill.  Brilliant!  Daddio took pumpkin carving to the next level!

The power tools come out!  I can just hear Tim Allen grunting.

Two happy boys with power tools

We might not watch Frozen yet, but we sure love Daniel Tiger!  For those of you that don't have toddlers obsessed with Daniel Tiger, it is a spin off of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.  I love the lessons Daniel teaches my kids!

In daylight, it doesn't look that exciting....

But with a candle in the dark, pretty awesome!

Pizza inhaled, 6 PM hit, and it was time to trick or treat!

As with the past two years, it took Evie about 10 minutes to warm up to the idea of trick or treat.  Braylen was ready to go from the first house.  Daddio took them around while I handed out pretzel bags to the masses (ha!  We had a light showing this year).  

After an hour, the two of them came back with full pails.  As soon as they came into the house, they emptied their pails and moved candy between bins.  It brought back memories of sorting out my candy back in the day.

That's a lot of candy for two!

Braylen was fixated on the "roller" he received.  He carried it in his hand from the time he got it until the time we went up for baths

"Roller" AKA Rolo

The kids were well behaved and adorable together.  They are so blessed to have each other to do all of this stuff together.  

Decorating pumpkins with stickers that just arrived from Mema

Sharing :)

If that all wasn't enough, we came up with one more special treat- glow sticks in the bath!

Fun with the lights on....

... but totally radical (dude) with lights off!

Why did we come up with a fun bath activity the night we are
late doing baths?  Oh well.  Stock up on glow sticks, friends!

It was a fun night had by all.  Hoping for some extra sleep in the morning ;)