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 2013 here and here

Halloween 2012 and a few more pics here.

Halloween 2011 and here too.

Halloween 2010 and here too.

Boo!  Happy Halloween!  We are all geared up over here for a fun afternoon and plenty of trick or treating tonight.  Maxwell is really excited about Halloween this year and has been ready for today all week long!

We had a little dress rehearsal for Halloween on Wednesday night when we went to Trunk or Treat at St. Luke’s.  It was a beautiful night and good opportunity to give our costumes a test run…

For tonight, Maxwell will be a little more orange and a little more official!  Spencer will be…well, completely different and poor baby will have an actual Halloween bag instead of his Easter basket!  🙂  ha!  I didn’t realize until we were leaving that I had never bought him a Halloween bag last year so the bunny had to work in a pinch!

We had fun at trunk or treat and got to practice saying “Trick or Treat!” and “thank you”.  🙂

Whenever Spencer got a new piece of candy, he wanted to eat it right then…

regardless of whatever open, half eaten candy he already had! He’d just hand that half eaten piece to me and ask for something new!

We ran into our friend Charlie and all laughed because the boys looked like a a mini Village People!  😉

Overall it was a fun warm up and we’re super ready for the main event tonight!

Happy Halloween!!

On Sunday it was sunny and 82 degrees…perfect weather for a Fall Festival!  ha!  Regardless of the heat, we still went up to the church’s fall event and had a lot of fun. They had a little “hayride” which consisted of a trailer of hay being pulled around the parking lot by a Lexus SUV. Totally authentic and Spencer hated every second of it!

Maxwell, on the other hand, was in heaven because his two best buddies, Max and James, were there!

They had lots of fun games set up and the boys got plenty of prizes, treasures and even a tattoo.

They also had a bonfire (again, perfect with the warm temps!) and everyone got to make s’mores.

This picture makes me laugh…Robert trying to keep Maxwell from stabbing his burning hot marshmallow into someone while simultaneously trying to keep spencer out of the fire all while I’m taking a picture.  🙂

As we were leaving, Spencer was standing in the parking lot with his little pumpkin waving and telling all the cars bye-bye as they drove off!  Sweet boy.

Overall it was a fun night and we’ll definitely go again next year…but will be hoping for actual Fall temps!

See you tomorrow!