Halloween 2017

Better late than never, HA!  We had a fun filled Halloween weekend and the girls looked so cute in their costumes.  

We had our school hoedown, our church trunk-or-treat, another church's TOT, then actual Halloween in our neighborhood.  JoJo was in 'aww' of everything and loved getting candy in her bucket.  Vivian was at a great age as well.  She was in hog heaven.  Her favorite part was playing games and winning her candy prizes. 

Vivian was a pirate and Belle.  JoJo was Sheriff Callie and a pink poodle.  Her poodle costume was a big hit with everyone!  They both looked great!!

One of my favorite pictures of all time!

Halloween 2016

What a fun year it was for trick-or-treating!  Vivian had the best time and Joanna just took it all in.  Oh, to be a kid again! I guess that's a great thing about having children yourself, to bring back your memories as a child.  Sweet sweet times.

Over the course of the weekend, we did a couple of trunk-or-treating, one being at our church for the fall carnival and the other being in Hampstead at one of their churches we went to for our first time trunk-or-treating.  Everybody was in 'awe' of Joanna being a dalmatian puppy which was Vivian's costume around the same age.  Vivian was Princess Sofia from Disney's Sofia the First for trunk-or-treating and Princess Anna from Frozen for actual Halloween.  She stained her dress at the carnival.  She looked beautiful both times.  Love those sweet girls! 

We of course had to dress Mr. Brody in one of his old costumes.  Halloween is his least favorite year and this may be his last Halloween with us.  Poor bub may have bone cancer, nothing we can do for him.  We love that sweet boy as well!

Halloween fell on a Monday this year and we were able to go in our neighborhood for 'actual' trick-or-treating.  What a sweet, sweet memory that was created.  Vivian was soooo excited and loved every single minute!  Our neighborhood has two other families and the rest of the neighbors, their kids are either living outside the home, grown or they are retired. They were so sweet to let us know they would be handing out candy.  Plus side, we didn't have to go to an unknown neighborhood for trick-or-treating.  The girls scored some good candy as well!  They even got a couple of goody bags, a new tooth brush and full size candy bars.  We have enough candy to last an entire year HA!  

I know the girls won't remember their first time to go house-to-house, but we will never forget.  Happy Halloween!!

 

Halloween

What a great first Halloween for both girls.  Vivian's first year to actually go trick-or-treating and Joanna's first Halloween ever.  We were excited for the day!

I whipped up a batch of pumpkin pancakes for breakfast that Vivian didn't want to eat.  Oh well, but they were delicious! 

Our local Whole Foods had a 'healthy' trick-or-treat for the kids that we decided to check out.  They followed pumpkin marks on the floor that had an employee waiting to hand out a treat.  Vivian got an orange, pumpkin balloon, organic apple juice box, string cheese, a small bag of candy corn and a stamp.  Hey, all she cared about was putting 'prizes' in her bucket.  

Afterwards, we grabbed lunch at the mall and Vivian rode the train.  Every time we go to the mall she wants to ride.  Whatever makes that little turkey happy!

Both girls took a nap that afternoon and woke just in time to get ready for the trunk-or-treat.  I kept Joanna in her Carter's skeleton jammies for her costume.  I thought about having her wear Vivian's costume, but decided to stick with comfort.  She made a cute little skeleton!

Instead of going to door-to-door since Vivian is still young we chose to do another trunk-or-treat at a local church.  They started at 4 pm which was great and Vivian got a lot of candy in a short amount of time.  Everyone loved her costume and she loved picking out her 'prizes.'  Next year we'll hit up a neighborhood :)

We used an old costume of Brody's to at least have a pic of him dressed up.  Halloween is his least favorite time of year.  Vivian loved seeing him dressed in a costume.

Happy Halloween!

 

Joanna's Baptism and Trunk-or-Treat/Fall Carnival

On Sunday, May 25, we celebrated our sweet baby girl at church with having her baptized. She did an awesome job with being quite for the most part.  She did her happy 'talk' which made it even more sweeter.  

After the service, we had lunch at good ole Cracker Barrel.  B's parents were able to come to the service so it was nice for all of us to be together for a few hours.

Thankfully, both girls took naps afterwards and we were able to attend our church's trunk-or-treat and fall carnival.  This was Vivian's first time 'trick-or-treating.' She was so cute!  She stood in line collecting her 'prizes' from each decorated vehicle.  She didn't say 'trick-or-treat,' but took her precious time deciding which piece of candy to get.  We had to keep telling her, 'just pick one!' HA!  

Once we made it around each car, we went inside for the fall carnival.  They gave us several tickets for the games.  Vivian's friend, Julia, met us there and the girls had a ball.  Face painting, cake walk, fishing, bowling, duck toss were some of the fun games they played.  They had an inflatable slide that Vivian LOVED.  She wanted to go down again and again.  She especially liked climbing the stairs.  Wanted to do it by herself, so no spotting for that kid.  

Sunday was an absolute perfect day!  

Cutest Sheriff Callie

on the block!

  

The Grinch didn't even phase her!