Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Halloween 2011

On Saturday while the rest of the city was out at the Boo Bash, the many area pumpkin farms, Boo at the Zoo, or the Trunk or Treat on every other corner, we stayed in and dog-sat, carved pumpkins, and made smores.  But I did feel a little bad for not taking the kids to any festivals.  So on Sunday we went to a local church’s trunk or treat since I remembered seeing a billboard saying that it was on Sunday (we missed our church’s on Saturday night.) 

It’s funny to me how Coleman just innately knows “ninja moves.”

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Yet how sweet he is to pose with his sister however she instructs Smile

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I was a bride for Halloween sometime around Shelby’s age, too.  So of course I love the comparisons but there’s really not any likeness in these (I think I had a perm)  :

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The trunk or treat was small and sweet.  There were bounce houses so the kids were happy.  Natalia and her mommy and daddy met us there!

 

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There were a few trunks with games.  Of course, Angry Birds is big this Halloween season Smile

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October 31 was on a Monday this year.  Nonnie and Poppy had just landed from a weekend in Nashville so they were feeling a little bit of separation anxiety from the kids Smile  They came straight over with dinner and even trick or treated the neighborhood with us!  The kids were so excited to have them with us.  They had plotted in the car on the way home from school about how to ask if they would Trick Or Treat with us, and they were all smiles when the answer was “Yes!”

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The family of 4:

 

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Knocking on doors and waiting patiently:

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I think this was the first year that we’ve actually trick-or-treated in our neighborhood.  The kids did great, were polite, and only fought a little about whose turn it was to ring the doorbell Smile

When we got home, there was candy sorting to be done!

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Then it was one piece to eat and off to bed.  As Shelby would say,

“Seriously?!  That’s riDONKulous!”

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