Happy Halloween

I am so confused because I could swear that I already wrote up a post on Halloween, but it isn't showing up anywhere.  Anywho, this is a little late, but I had to include some pics of the boys.  We were a little rushed because we drove back from Cincinnati the day before, but it was worth it since we had such a fun camping trip! 
Our neighborhood always has a pizza party right before trick or treating so we headed up there  to join in the excitement of the evening.  Harrison had been telling me for months that he wanted to be a ghost so I had been working on his costume for months.  I couldn’t figure out how to get it to stay put and it drove him crazy so after about 20 costume revisions, we had a last minute costume change.  Thankfully his pirate costume from last year still fit, so a pirate he was.  I should note that he didn’t end up being a pirate last year b/c at the last minute he didn’t want to wear it.  We put on his Alabama football jersey , gave him a football to carry and made him an impromptu UofA football player.  Hopefully this yearly costume change will end this year!  I had to get one picture though of the ghost before he retired for the evening…

So my pirate and Toy Story dinosaur set out to get some candy.  I told Harrison that he had to teach Davis how to trick or treat and he was so helpful.  Davis was funny b/c once he would get candy from a house, he would just stand there.  I think he was wondering why on earth we would leave a house when they had more candy to give??

Lance and I both wanted to watch the boys trick or treat since it was Davis’ first real Halloween where he could walk up and get candy.   We took the wagon so Davis could ride in it, but it ended up just being the candy wagon.  Harrison thought his basket started getting too heavy, so he would dump his candy into the wagon in between houses. 
Davis also loved looking at all of the decorations.  He would stop and point and say “ooooh!”.  It just gives you t he goosebumps watching them experience something like this for the first time.

Harrison made it to about half of the houses that I thought we would do when he decided he was done.  It did get pretty chilly towards the end so I can’t blame him.  His little legs got tired, I think I sometimes forget how much harder they have to work to keep up with us.

We had a wonderful night and believe it or not, had both kids in bed before 7:30 because they were so tired.  It made for a nice relaxing evening for us!
One last thing – we usually visit a pumpkin patch and have a night of pumpkin carving and roasting pumpkin seeds, but since we have had such a busy fall and were out of town right before Halloween, Lance carved a pumpkin for Harrison the night before.  He let Harrison choose between Buzz Lightyear and Lightning McQueen…here is what he chose…

Happy belated Halloween!