Halloween 2016

Meet Shimmer and Shine! 

They are twin genies on Nick Jr

A local college had a Wellness Fair that had games and fun stuff for kids

 

A local car dealership had a Trunk or Treat event

 

 

Their preschool had a Halloween parade and party

(I couldn't post many pictures since most had other kiddos in it :) )

Halloween night, we ate hot dogs with Alan's mom and stepdad. Then we trick or treated their neighborhood. Riley made it a little ways but then gave out and I took her back to their house while Alan, Madison and Nimmie finished the neighborhood, which wasn't much. They got enough to fill a big bowl of goodies.

(For my readers that didn't know, Alan had bicep tendon repair surgery.. 

It's not some fancy costume piece ;) )

Madison and Riley's Halloween pumpkins

The girls will dress up as Shimmer and Shine for Halloween. When I asked Madison what kind of pumpkin she wanted to do, she said she wanted to paint them as Shimmer and Shine. Last year, we painted hers like Elsa and Riley's like Minnie Mouse so I was excited she didn't want to carve them!

They painted the hair and the face and I filled in the details

Halloween

Pumpkin Patch

Riley's pumpkin

Madison's pumpkin

A trip to Krispy Kreme before trick or treating

Halloween 2013

Madison had a huge day! Her school has a big carnival and her class got to watch the older kids walk in a costume parade and then they had a party at 11:30 with cupcakes, gold fish and fruit. I helped with the party and Alan came in. She was so happy to have us there! She ate her fruit and cupcake and then wanted to play in her class. I didn't dress her up for fear that she'd be uncomfortable and/or mess up her costume before being able to trick or treat. 

After school, I brought her home(Alan went back to work) and she was ready for bed! I usually keep her up a while and had planned on doing this on halloween because I knew she was going to be up past her bedtime but within 20 minutes of getting home, she crawled in her bed and said "night night!" So I put her down and she slept 2 hours. She got up, ate some snacks and wanted to rest on the couch and "watch tv" for a bit. That's always her sign that she's not ready to really get up and play. So we laid on the couch with the mess of the house surrounding us. I'm trying to treasure these Mommy and Madison moments before Riley gets here. 

Alan got home by 5 and we decided to take her to Chic-Fil-A for supper before trick or treating. They were giving free kids meals and she loves 'chick chick' from there so I knew she would eat it. We then stopped by Publix because they were having games and giving candy. We walked around the store and let her play. She had a lot of fun! Then we stopped by a family friends house to visit and then headed to Alan's moms neighborhood. We walked her to about 7 houses and her bucket was almost full! She hit a wall after about an hour but kept saying "One more".. She had a blast ringing the doorbell and saying thank you when they gave her candy. On the way home, the firefighters were out in front of the firehouse waving a candy bucket so we stopped. They filled her bucket up with suckers! She had a ball and was wiped out!

Cutest Minnie Mouse, ever!

Madison's Mickey pumpkin, her tiny pumpkin she just had to have and Riley's middle pumpkin. I had every intention of carving an "R" in Riley's pumpkin but I just never got around to it. At least she had a pumpkin though, right?

3 Halloweens. What a difference!

1.5 months, 13.5 months and 25.5 months.

2012 pumpkins

I realize I'm stretching out Halloween 2 days passed the real Holiday. I meant to add these to Madison's costume post but I forgot. 

I also failed to take a picture of Alan's pumpkin before it got all mushy and started falling in so it doesn't look much like it did when he first carved it but here it is:

Can you tell it's Patrick from Spongebob?

Maybe this will help.. Here's the stenciL :)

 This is Madison's. I had planned on doing a Spongebob stencil for her but we kept putting it off and I didn't carve this one until the night before Halloween so she's lucky it got carved at all :)

This is my Spongebob pumpkin.

I loved having the pumpkins on the porch... Madison really loved pointing to them and going "p p p p" (smacking her lips together).. When I first sat them out there, I told her they were "Pumpkins" and she said "B" (everything is the B noise) and I said "Not "B" but P P P P (making the P noise)" and from that time on they were always "p p p p" .. so cute :)

Happy Halloween...

...from our beautiful butterfly!

..and Wilma

Wilma's happy it's Halloween :)

 

 

This is what she kept pointing at.. 2 tractors bailing hay in the field across the road.. Reason 38923 I love the country. Something peaceful about hearing tractors all day.

 
A visit to Nimmie's. She was dressed as a nerd for school- not her typical outfit :)

Nimmie got her a treat since she's too small for candy

Baby Einstein books!

Baby sized!

Look how tiny she was last year! Time flies!