Halloween Fun!!!

This was our first year REALLY celebrating Halloween with our kids. Van's first year, he dressed as a cowboy but he was too young to really do anything with so it was just a scheme for pictures. Last year, he was sick and so we did nothing...but this year, this was fun. We wanted to find something the kids could wear together and we thought these outfits were perfect. Van was our little devil and Ava, the angel. However, in my opinion I really would probably switch the costumes. Ava just has much more spitfire to her than Van does. Anywhoo.....this is how our Halloween celebrations went this year.

We kicked off the holiday fun with Van's preschool, they had a Halloween party last Wednesday. We all went to Irvine Park, rode on the train, visited the pumpkin patch, and then had some pizza and had the kids trick or treat w/ some of the parents. It was a lot of fun. Mike and my mom accompanied us so that we could manage both kids and there was a free hand for lots of picture taking too. Ava was a real trooper, she pretty much always is so she just hung out while her big brother got to enjoy all of the fun. Everybody loved the costumes by the way, although Van did get called a dragon and Ava a fairy....we thought it was so obvious!!!

Then came big day. Van was running around all Friday saying "trick or treat" even though he really didn't know what it meant...or what he would get if he said it. So we invited Grammy and Pappy over to see the costumes and do our trick or treating with us but Grammy just had surgery so she wasn't up to much, but Pappy came anyways. And, we had invited Mike's friend Jason and his new lady friend over for dinner, so there was literally a heard of us taking our 2 kids, really just 1 though, trick or treating. It was still great fun. Van was a little nervous the first couple of houses. But, once he realized every house he went to and every time he said "trick or treat" he got candy, I think it dawned on him....this is a great holiday. So around we went, probably only to about 10 houses or so, remember he is only 2, but we all really enjoyed it. Its really amazing, how little things like this are so enjoyable as a parent. I think I was so excited and had great anticipation for this fun day, even more so than either of my little ones could have. Its so nice to just get to enjoy these times w/ your babies. It makes me smile just thinking of the millions of memories we still have to make. Enjoy the pics below....

"I was a devil", he says

Okay so she looks a little angelic, don't let her fool you

look at that, almost a smile at the camera

so many pumpkins, how can I pick just one?

doing the hay maze...

and smiling pretty for daddy...

As always, there are more pics on our flickr site so feel free to visit. Can't wait till next year...already thinking, maybe a police man and jailer, firefighter and fire hydrant...hmmm choices choices...a whole year to decide.

Love to all, more posts to come....

B