Happy Halloween Everyone!

Well after all the moving and hotels and new baby brother and new house and new town, it was so nice to do something we always do.

Halloween this year fell on a Wednesday, so we got to have two Halloweens!  We had the regular one in our neighborhood and the one with our friends at church!

Our wonderful Halawa Ward here in Honolulu had the Trunk or Treat in our church parking lot.  It was so nice to do it this way.  It is safe and fun and relatively short.  This year the young men and young women were so amazing and put together a whole bunch of games where my little kids could earn treats.  It was so fun.  My favorite game was where Evie and Lizzy raced to eat a doughnuts off a string held high above them as they knelt with their hands behind their back.  Evie won, but just barely.  Even Ally had a game at her level!  Afterwards we had a great dinner that was provided by potluck.  I love to bring desserts so that was our contribution.  Then came the best part of the night:  candy from our friend's decorated trunks!  The kids had a blast and I loved taking them around.

My kids were so adorable this year.  Take a look!

Vaughn this year is just too little for a regular costume, plus he's my last 1st Halloween baby.  We just put a cute orange "1st Halloween" cap and sleeper suit with black stripes.  He was so so adorable and totally lived up to the LAST BABY situation.  Thank you Vaughn!  He did a great job even though it was way past his bed time.  What a great baby he is.

Ally chose to be a pink fairy this year.  She wanted to be like Evie, but was no where near ready to give up the pink!  Ally was so adorable.  The wings were just velcroed on her back and were a little big for my little girl so I had to watch them quite a bit.  She kept dancing around to see the wings fly.  I loved seeing her get so excited. 

 Evie chose to be a night fairy this year.  We had a great time getting her all ready.  I didn't realize how much she looked more like a teen goth fairy instead of a night fairy.  Thank goodness she got her face painted so she could look like my 6 year old again!

 Joe of course, was Jake from "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" on Disney channel.  He was super cute and got the sword painted on his face to match.

 My little Lizzy was a beautiful Cinderella this year.  She got a matching butterfly on her cheek.  The funny thing about her costume though was that her first crown just wouldn't stay on and then the second one hurt her head.  So we found the jeweled headband in our Halloween bucket and grabbed the two inch hem I took off her dress (she's so little!) and tied it to her ponytail.  It turned out great.  She especially loved the bow.

my adorable children!

Now we are not pictured, but I was a night fairy with Evie to help her be more comfortable.  And I got to wear my awesome black pleather boots that I bought last year.  I wore my boots, black dress, and a pair of little blue wings.  Not my best costume I admit, but it was the motherly thing to do and I'm proud of that.  Chris didn't dress up this year as anything but a very busy, tired, and happy father of five!

Apparently our new neighborhood, Onizuka, is crazy about Halloween.  There were so many people out walking around and so many houses decorated.  Most of the houses were just a lot of fun, but some were pretty scary.  My kids just got tons of candy this year because of the double holiday.  We had such a blast and Chris got all excited to really go all out for the next year!  Wish him luck!  All of a sudden I remember the light up black cat we got for our wedding in '01.  Darn we don't have that cat anymore.  Chris is going to be upset!

We had a great Halloween.  Hope you did too!