Thanksgiving is over and it’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas…
Especially at Bass Pro! 🙂 Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is enjoying some leftovers today. See you next week!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I have so much to be thankful for this year but the top of my list will always be my boys…
including this boy that might or might not be a boy after all! We’ll see in 8.5 weeks! 🙂
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Boo and Brr!
After the parade we hooked up with some friends and decided to just start walking toward the houses to trick-or-treat. It was still early but there were already some sprinkles coming down and it was getting really cold and windy! We decided to start early to we could try to get home early!
Maxwell knew exactly what was going on and couldn’t wait to hit up the first house! Spencer was pretty clueless so I helped him along a bit…
He figured out the game pretty quickly and perfected his own version of “titateat!”
Maxwell was a good big brother and had no problem taking Spencer up to houses by themselves…
But, if there was a dog outside the house, Maxwell would quickly say “we’ll just skip that one!” 🙂
Some of the friends we were with had built this Thomas the Train over their wagon and all the kids (and parents!) thought it was the neatest thing ever!
Spencer just about burst when he actually got to ride in it for a bit!
Maxwell was continuing on his “serious” streak and couldn’t really be bothered for pictures…
or to keep up with the group! 🙂
In his defense, it was a big, slow-moving group all with kids younger than him except for one. It’s tough to be the oldest sometimes! 🙂 He did fine though and loved getting lots of candy and seeing all the cool decorations.
Spencer was doing so good putting all of his candy in his basket. He kept bringing me a Blow Pop to open and I would tell him that we weren’t going to eat the candy now and he needed to put it in his basket. After about the 4th time he asked, I finally gave in to my cute little Mickey and let him have the Blow Pop. He was so happy he even sat in the stroller for a little while!
By this point, it was starting to get really cold and windy. Just as we were turning down the last street to make the loop back to home, Spencer was walking on the curb and totally bit it scraping his little hand and biting his tongue. We unfortunately had our first (and thankfully only!) tears of the night. So pitiful.
After some hugs from Dad, a new sucker and his Mickey sweatshirt to warm up, he was back in business.
On the home stretch, we ran into 2 of Maxwell’s buds – Ben and James. That made my little construction worker pretty happy!
It was honestly freezing and really windy by that point so we were more than happy to get home by 6:00, warm up and inspect all of our candy! Which, let me just say, all that candy and not one single Butterfinger. Humph. Oh well, it was still a really fun night, Butterfinger or not! 🙂
Happy Halloween!
Halloween Parade
Once we were all decked out in our costumes, we headed over to the annual Halloween parade in Crestline Village. Our friends parked in our driveway so we got to snap a quick pic with Hannah and Sally before leaving…
Cuties.
We made our way over and found a good spot and waited for the fun to begin!
We ended up next to my friend Kelli and her husband, Wade, who cracked me up all ready to sweat to the oldies!
I then tried to get a picture with my cute boys but these were the best I got…
For as excited as Maxwell was for Halloween, he was strangely solemn and serious all night long. I don’t know if it was just overwhelming to him or if he was just taking his trick-or-treating business very serious. Whatever it was, I barely got any of my normal Maxwell smiles out of him all night. He kept promising me he was having fun though!
On the other hand, this one wasn’t having any trouble smiling and loving it all!
When the parade started, both boys were just kind of in awe of all the floats and candy that was being thrown at us!
Spencer was SO cute pointing at all the new floats as they came down the street.
And don’t let anyone tell you the parade is just for kids…check out this guy’s face! 🙂
The parade always ends with our favorite – the fire truck!
Another fun parade in the books! It was then time for trick-or-treating…come back tomorrow!
Halloween!
Hope you all had a great Halloween! Ours was super fun and ended up being pretty chilly! That didn’t stop my little Construction Worker and Mickey Mouse though!
Could they be any cuter?!
Maxwell had been SO excited for Halloween for the past 2 weeks so I’m super happy that it turned out to be such a fun night. As you might remember, he’s been a fireman both last year and the year before. He had been planning to be a fireman again basically since November 1 of last year. But, in the past 2 weeks he totally changed his tune and wanted to be a construction worker. I think maybe it had something to do with Robert and I always talking about the “work” and construction we’re going to do on the new house. I don’t know but I was happy for him to be whatever he wanted! You saw his costume on Wednesday night for Trunk or Treat…well, we made it a little more official with an orange shirt, some fluorescent gloves, an official badge (made one for Spencer too!)…
and, most importantly, real construction boots!
Halloween morning Maxwell said to me, “Momma, that other boy on Wednesday night that was dressed up like a construction worker had boots and I didn’t.” 🙁 Since I’m a good mom/sucker, I went over to Target and was VERY happy to see that last pair of boots in his size! woohoo! He was a very happy camper that night!
When Maxwell decided not to be a fireman, I thought this was a chance for Spencer to dress like something different too. Literally on Wednesday, I decided to make him into Mickey Mouse and quickly threw together what ended up being an adorable Mickey costume! (if I do say so myself!) We already had the ears so I just got some black leggings, black socks, black shirt and yellow Crocs. Then I cut some “buttons” out of foam and tacked them onto his red shorts. The bow tie was actually part of a little girl’s headband I found at Target. I was going to leave it on the elastic and put it around his neck but was afraid he’d never leave it on. GJ suggested sewing it onto the tshirt – genius. Add in the giant Mickey hands we already had and it was a perfect Mickey Mouse!
Of course, I couldn’t get Spencer to wear the Mickey hands or even the little white mittens I had found. Oh well – at least he wore the ears!
I was super pleased with how cute they both looked!
I think they were pretty happy too – even if they really didn’t want to let me take many pictures of them! 🙂
Once we were all dressed and ready to go, it was parade time! See you tomorrow with pictures!
Halloween 2012 and a few more pics here.
Halloween 2011 and here too.
Halloween 2010 and here too.