Halloween 2013

Somebody's not monkeying around about Halloween!
We managed to stretch the festivities out for a full week, and wore a costume on 4 different occasions.

Although our original costumes were Thing 1 & 2 with Kap as the Cat in the Hat,
Jase still hadn't made it back from out of town by the time we were planning on trick or treating.
So, to our backup costume we went: a liddle baby monkey.

Eric cleaned out the wagon, and set Ellie up with a sweet ride.
Body pillow and blankets, comfiest ride in town.
Too bad it didn't even last a full block before we all took turns carrying her ;)

We hit up a couple of neighborhoods,
and Eleanor had no idea what was going on
but she loved being out and about.
And the sucker she got when we made it back to Grandma's wasn't too bad either.

But the real star of the night was ERIC.
He was hilarious.
At one house, they went up to a door with Kap, the people gave Kap some candy and were shutting the door (but had missed Ellie's bag) so Eric held out the bag and said, "Can you say Trick or Treat for me Ellie" LOL.
And on the way back, there was a house with lights on that we didn't get on the way, so he and Kap went up to it (WITHOUT ELLIE!) and got candy,  while Eric told them I have a baby, she's over there.
Oh my gosh.
We made it back to moms and they dumped out the candy and shared and traded.
The two biggest kids!

Was a fun night, and we can't wait for next year when Eleanor will be old enough to say Trick or Treat and walk up to doors with her cousins!

saturday, busy day.

we had such a fun weekend!
Saturday was our first opportunity for Eleanor to wear her Halloween costume,
twice!

first we headed to the library for a Halloween story time
with liz and brogan.
it was unbelievably PACKED!
we listened to a couple of scary stories, went on a costume parade and pulled all the books off the shelves played with our friends.

after going home and taking a nap,
we were ready for outing #2!
a fall festival at a church just next door to our house.

it didn't start til dark, so it was too dark for many pictures
but ellie did get to go on her first hayride.
she didn't care much for it actually,
had a trembling lip part of the time and fell asleep a bit of the time.
she also got to do some trunk or treating and had a hard time moving to the next car.
can't blame the girl, who wouldn't want more candy!!

also, I don't think it needs to be mentioned how ridiculously hard it is to get a not blurry, everyone looking pictures with babies.
we have a few more Halloween events this week, so we will get plenty of use out of her first handmade costume!
love this time of year.