Happy Halloween!!

Halloween was extra fun this year because Marlie understood dressing up and getting candy!!!  We started off the festivities at Matt's school.  I remember as a kid we always had a Halloween party at school and it was so much fun.  Well...I guess Halloween is not PC anymore but thankfully the Kinder classes secretly participated by having a "character parade".  The kids were to dress up as a character from a book and bring the book with them to march in the parade.  I think the "characters" were supposed to be typical children's book characters but Matt insisted on being Tom Brady because that's who is in his book "Perfect Passers" that he likes to read.  He begged his teacher and she gave in too!!  Tom Brady it is...what a cute Tom Brady he was. All the kids looked great and I got to take my picture with Tom Brady - wohoo!!

Now Marlie had a real Halloween party and party it was!  The room Mom went crazy and the party was awesome!  I have not seen that many cute Halloween treats ever!!  At the end of the party Marlie was screaming, "this is too much chocolate" but they all had fun with their crafts, singing pumpkin songs and eating their treats! In case you didn't see the blog posting a few weeks back, Marlie insisted on being Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates against my numerous attempts to try to get her to be a Texans Cheerleader or Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. 

Halloween night was a blast as always.  The kids looked great!

We start with the usual coolest party at our neighbor's house.  I think Carmen thought of not having it this year and we told her she didn't have a choice.  The kids eat and play before the big trek into the neighborhood.  I didn't get a picture of all the kids this year but managed one shot of the girls.  Here's Marlie with Lyla and Mya. 

We headed out early with the Patton's.  The kids were running as usual from house to house and the girls were trying hard to keep up. 

Luckily our house was one of the first stops...can you see them attacking my Mom?  They are IN the house. It took at least 5 houses before they got the message that you cannot go INTO the house!  By the end Marlie was saying "Mom I did not step foot in the house".  Luckily we know most of our neighbors! 

M&M thought this black cat was awesome and had to take a picture with it...

Along the way we tried a few beverages made by our friendly neighbors...candy corn and jagermonster shots.  Adults and kids always manage to have a blast on Halloween night.  Our neighborhood is awesome and we see kids from other Fall Creek neighborhoods in ours.  On our last stretch there was so many people out in the streets.  It looked like a mini Mardi Gras with everyone dressed up.  Even the Dads dressed up...funny that there was no planning to this.  Everyone was sad not to see Doug is in his track suit this year.  Maybe next year we'll come up with something more revealing!