Trick or Treat

Halloween 2009 was a blast. We had a busy, fun-filled day full of games and treats. We started off the day by attempting to go to a pumpkin patch to get some pictures - big mistake waiting until the day of. There were hardly any pumpkins left (imagine that...lol) so we ended up skipping it and heading to Grandma's to play for a bit before we went to the church festival. The kids had a blast at the festival trying all the different games and getting TONS of candy. The moonwalk/slide combo was the favorite for both Brooklynn & Andrew...they were in that thing forever. I didn't know how Brookie would be in one of those - especially since there were bigger kids all around jumping all over the place - but no surprise she had a blast and was unfazed with being the smallest. She was cracking up the entire time and loving every second of it. Andrew was helping her climb up the wall to be able to go down the slide and keeping an eye out for her - she loves her big brother so much :) Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera to the festival so I missed out some cute pics.

We ended up staying at the festival longer than I originally planned since they were having such a fun time we and didn't get home until after 4pm. That only left about 45 mins for a nap for Brookie before heading out for the evening to go trick or treating with her friend, Blakelyn. Well she didn't even take that long of a nap - I think she only slept for about 30-40 mins max and was ready to go again....lol. I called her my energizer bunny yesterday - she was so wired - and she hadn't even had any candy at that point.

We ended up going to our friends, Natalie & Jimmy's house to go trick or treating with them and Blakelyn. Andrew went to trick or treat and spend the night at a cousins's house so unfortunately, I don't have any pics of him in his costume - he was an Alien Commander - it was pretty neat...Anyway...the girls had a GREAT time going house to house and running up to the door and getting candy. They didn't say trick or treat but at each house they would stand there for like 2 mins afterwards and say 'thank you' and 'bye-bye' and wave - it was THE CUTEST THING EVER! We were cracking up so hard. I only got a few pics of them before my batteries decided to die - and I had just finished charging them earlier that day....I was NOT happy...but luckily there should be more pics to follow later from Natalie's camera of them in action. For now here are some pics before we headed out. Blakelyn was a Texans Cheerleader and Brooklynn was a Butterfly Princess.....they were so stinkin' cute!

After trick or treating, we headed out to Natalie's parents house for a halloween bash. Of course the kids were still running around and going strong - no sign of slowing down for either one of them. Our favorite costume was Natalie's cousin dressed up as Swine Flu....it was HILARIOUS!!! Brooklynn was terrified of him though - not sure if its b/c he was wearing a Dr's costume and it reminds her of getting shots or b/c he had a pig nose on and she was scared of the funny looking pig. She would jump into my lap everytime she caught a glimpse of him from across the room. We stayed there for a couple of hours and enjoyed some great food and just hung out and talked. We didn't get home until almost 11pm - and Brooklynn ran straight to her toys and thought she was going to get to play once we got home. Seriously - where did she get that energy from? Of course, once I changed her into her pj's and she had some milk - she crashed pretty fast. She's still sleeping now and to her it still feels like almost 9:30am since the clocks just went back last night. Don't ask me why I am up so early - I woke up and was ready to get up - very strange.....oh well - just enjoying my peace and quiet before the Energizer Bunny wakes up for the day :)