Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! We had a fun filled Halloween weekend.  Saturday morning we went to a birthday party in costumes because the birthday boy was born on Halloween. And then we came home and I finished working on Joel's costume and got it finished just in time.  He wasn't sure his robot vision would be ready in time but his mother came through.  

He had boxes on his feet but it was hard to walk in so he took those off

For Harvey's birthday party Joel didn't want his robot to get damaged since it was outside at a park so he wore the hotdog costume again.

I do love making his costumes. He has such great ideas and while its a little stressful getting inside his head to figure out what he is really thinking it always comes out great.

Colin wore his alien costume from last year to the birthday party and had a lot more fun in it. No freshly broken bones this year.

Norah was adamant this year that she was not going to be any kind of princess.  She wanted to be a baker. And I think came out really cute.

This is the first year brent and I didn't go around with children. Juliauna took Norah and Joel (and chloe) around with her and then Colin went with Matthew. We sat and watched all the kids come up and get candy - we had ours out on a table. 

Joel dressed up his little piggie. 

Matthew had the best costume. Watching him walk in it was priceless. 

Colin wasn't sure what he wanted to be and just went into the dress up bin and picked whatever fit. He told me that this was his last year legally trick or treating. I told him in our neighborhood he might have a few more years. Or we might have to just have all the kids over for a costume party. 

I matched our guinea pig.....

A bunch of neighbors made these candy shoots that sent down the candy to the kids. They loved that.  That's one good thing from covid. I hope that stays. Our neighborhood also went all out in the decorations. We would go on walks at night to look at the lights. None of them had anything scary. Just lights and blowups. I think people needed something to cheer them up this year. And apparently most of the neighbors gave out full size candy bars.  Another mother and I made a deal that if she goes full size candy bars next year to let me know so we aren't the only ones not giving out the good stuff.  Kids ran around until 10/11pm just playing. We brought out our fire pit and sat and talked with neighbors for hours. I do love our neighborhood especially nights like this.