This year we had a blast trick or treating with our kids again. It's always so fun listening to them decide what they want to be and how they plan to dress up. Most years it's a pretty thrown together costume that comes from our closets and dress up bins. This year was no different, although the costumes turned out pretty good, considering they were thrown together the afternoon of Halloween. There was one exception though, Mason managed to get a store bought costume. The girls have always tried to convince me they should by one of those pretty princess dresses or some other girly costume and they've never succeeded in convincing me. Mason, however, managed to convince me to bring home two this year! Not sure if it's cause he's the baby, or the only boy, or simply because I am a superhero junkie, but for whatever reason we ended up bringing home a costume for this year, and one for next year!
This year Emme wanted to be Elsa, and so lucky for me, I had come across some fluffy white yarn for hair, and had a few old bridesmaid's dresses hanging in the closet, along with an unfinished sewing project to create the cape. Emmersen was so excited with her costume and couldn't stop grinning all night!
Of course, you can't have Elsa without Ana. Lucky for me I had been rather slow in sending our Value Village bag so we still had a pink cape to make the costume work! Her sister's dress, a tank top and a pair of ropers completed the ensamble!
The sisters, ready to conquer Halloween together :)
Cheyanne wanted to be a cowgirl. Thanks to Grandma Olund for the lovely pink hat her costume was rather easy to put together!
.....and last but not least, our spoiled little son, Mason went as Bumble Bee. It was pretty much the coolest costume I saw all night, lol, couldn't help but get it for him ;)
Striking a pre-night pose, I believe Emme is freezing the camera, well Bella is ready to take you out with her feisty attitude, Mason is ready for the fight with Megatron, and Cheyanne is just politely tipping her hat to all who go by, haha.
First stop it the barn. Always an exciting place to trick or treat, the kids love to pick out what granola bar they are going to take. I not sure if the cows are too fond of the tradition though.
Grandma Haak's house is stop two!
Mrs. Volpatti always gets all dressed up for the evening, the kids love guessing what she's gong to be dressed as every year!
Grandma and Grandpa Olund's house is the start to a crazy round of trick or treating and collecting way too much candy!
...it's also a good place to run into the Derksen herd for a few minutes!
Lexi and Cheyanne had the same idea this year! Loved their matching hats.
When we finish trick or treating and everyone is too tired to knock on anymore doors we head over to great Grandma's and she has everyone over for hot dogs and hot chocolate. It's always a loud crazy time as the kids try and tell each other all about their night and their costumes while shoving food in their mouths, and grandma is making sure everyone has hot chocolate and trick or treat stuff. It's a lot of fun! And happily for us this year, we didn't end our night out with a middle of the night attack of the pukes, so it was a far better Halloween this year then last year!
of course the night wouldn't be complete without sorting the candy! All of this came from 13 houses!
