Halloween Fun & the Second Half of October

Ella in her Bandita costume. She loved this costume and had to have it as soon as she saw it.

Dottie the little pirate 

Lunch at school with her friends 

Sweet little pumpkins! 

 

Rainy afternoon at Kid Creations - we had a great time making mosaic letters 

Donating food at the food pantry at FCC - her Brownie Troop used the proceeds from last year's cookie sale to buy food for the food bank 

Pushing big baby  

Making pretzels with Dad 

Ready for Halloween in the Park with Grammy - matching Banditas! 

More lunchtime fun 

Brownie Troop Halloween Party

Dottie and Sophie 

Halloween Day - we had really bad storms in the morning and lost power for a few hours. Ella decided to organize our candy on the stairs while we were waiting for it to come back on. 

Getting ready for our Halloween party - Mom made some very delicious drinks for the night. The best part of all - dry ice that was bubbling out of the bowl! There were poison apples and caramel apple martinis - they were a very big hit and made the party!

Ella and James 

With my sweet little pirate 

Ready to trick-or-treat! 

We had so much fun that night, definitely a Halloween to remember! 

Better late than never - Ella decorating her pumpkin to look like a vampire bat 

Froberg's Farm

Visit to Froberg's Farm in October, a fun pre-Halloween outing!

Halloween

At the last minute, Ella decided she wanted to save her Violet costume for trick-or-treating only, and decided to be a witch for school that day. 

She told me I needed to take a picture of how she would look after a house dropped on her...

Excited and ready for school!

Dottie being festive too :)

I got to volunteer at her school Halloween party, which was really fun. I was originally signed up for the Christmas party (you can only pick one party per year) but she told me the Halloween party was much more fun so I needed to switch :)

Mummy team

The world's cutest Supergirl, all ready for trick-or-treating!

And Ella...as Violet of the Incredibles

Sweet superheroes

Hmm...guess she's not quite as excited for the big night as we thought?

We had the Zhangs over for trick-or-treating and the girls had a blast. 

This is how Dottie spent the majority of our time out trick-or-treating.

We had beautiful weather and trick-or-treated for a few hours in our neighborhood. The girls loved every minute, collected way more candy than they could ever eat, and even got to go in a Haunted House that one of our neighbors put up. Us adults had a great time too and it was even more special since Len and Carole were here with us. A very fun Halloween!!