Halloween!

Halloween came and went so quickly this year! We planned to do fun fall family things on the weekends, but it seemed like every weekend someone got sick, and was usually poor Caden. Unfortunately we never made it to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins. We were the ONLY ones on our street without pupkins... Cody was so embarrassed! We also missed out on Caden's anual school carnival due to him fevering, but he happily to chose to stay home and chill on the couch and watch a movie with our family instead! His cute friend felt SO badly that Caden missed out that he invited Caden to his school Halloween Party the next weekend. I am so grateful for his wonderful, thoughtful friends! It made Caden so happy!
This year, Caden chose to be Indiana Jones! We had his whole costume done by pulling out different things from closets. His sachel was complete with a map and a gun and around him hung a real whip! Trey changed his mind about 5 different times but once I pulled out Caden's old dragon costume, Trey's eyes lit up! DRAGO (or however you spell it) from Bakugan! Sweet, done there too! I figured Michael wouldn't mind how I dressed him up (if he would even let me dress him up at all) so I found Caden's & Trey's old Eeyore costume, grabbed a couple books to show him who it was and was done there too! Didn't have to spend a dime on costumes this year! Besides ALL the wrestling and fighting they do, it's kinda nice having 3 boys to use and re-use clothes, toys, etc :)
We went to the neighborhood Trunk-or-Treat a couple weeks before Halloween and it was a great way to give the boys practice for the big night! One of my sweet neighbors took Caden and Trey around with her son from car to car while I was able to spend the night holding the cutest little newborn, using my belly as a little shelf - how convenient that was! Trey absolutely LOVED it, refusing to say anything but "TRUNK-or-Treat" even on the 'real' Halloween! Michael 'helped' Cody pass out candy and I'm sure eating more than I ever would've let him! It was a fun night but such a long drive home! (haha!)
Now for the real Halloween night, we decided to go trick-or-treating at the mall. I have to thank whomever came up with this! We walked from store front to store front, filling 3 buckets of candy within an hour!!! So easy, convenient and WARM! "Trunk-or-treat" Trey would yell, Michael would pretty much grab the candy from the bowl and Caden would leave them with a quiet "thank you!" The boys had a perfect system and thought that was great! We had a fun night visiting family, grabbing some food, then sorting and eating all our candy - YUM! LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!