Trick Or Treat?

I LOVE Halloween, I always have. I have always thought it was so fun to dress up and get free candy from people. 

I had these neighbors when I was little that gave out Dunkin Donuts Donut Holes as treats. They probably still do but I haven't lived near that neighborhood since I was 10. As long as you were in the first HUGE group to come they would have it for you. I was almost always in the top 5 and since they LOVED me I would get those choose the 3 donut holes I liked best. (almost always I chose two glazed chocolate and one regular glazed!) No one else had that privilege.

Anyway, We never really decorated for Halloween in my house growing up. We always got pumpkins but besides a couple decorations that was about it. I am not bitter about it I completely understand. I am the youngest of 10 by the time my parents got to the end of the line I am sure all their Halloween wind was GONE! :) (Although, I am not really sure my parents were ever huge fans.) I think though, that maybe my parents indifference to the "holiday" made it so that I had a greater love for it. Especially since I have children now I want to make it special for them and let them know this is the day to have fun! I think I have succeeded. Riley talks about Halloween year round. She is planning what she wants to be next year before she has even decided for this year. This is the trick or treat part....

Treat: I love how Riley gets so excited to get dressed up
Trick: She actually has to make up her mind about a costume. We go through four a DAY!

Treat: Riley gets to help pick out the costumes for Dale, Makenna and I.
Trick. Three more costumes she cant decide on and more time spent trying to come to a conclusion.

Treat: Being able and wanting to make all the costumes
Trick: Being able and wanting to make all the costumes

Treat: Decorating for something fun
Trick: Having no decorating skills and limited decorations.

Treat: Costumes
Trick: Costumes handmade or store bought both end up being TOO expensive!

I have to take the tricks with the treats because seeing my girls, mainly Riley Bug for now, getting excited about it all is worth it! I am trying to teach myself how to do Halloween on a budget and so far its working but I still have 2 costumes to START and 2 to finish...

Trick or Treat!!

We had a lot of fun this Halloween! We had a lot to do an unfortunately didn't get to do all of it but we got all the really fun stuff done!! The day before Halloween we went to Jamie's house to get the girls pictures in their Halloween costumes. Riley was all cheese!! When Jamie takes pictures she will not stop smiling for her!! She was happy to do all we wanted her to do! Even Mak was really cooperative! We got some amazing smiles out of her!

Every time Riley puts on her costume she has to say "Super hero to the rescue!!" and put her arm up in the air like she was flying! I could have heard that all day. (and I pretty much did!) She wanted to wear her costume everyday from the day we bought it! When we went to the store to buy her Snow White costume we had it all picked out and then Riley saw the wonder woman costume and there was no looking back! I couldn't have been more happy!! And neither could she!

When we went to go get pictures taken Brittany brought Cayden and Addie along and we got the CUTEST pictures of them!!

Cayden was such a big help and was brave enough to hold Mak to get a cute group shot!!

These two girls get along so well and are SOO cute together!! They love each other to death!

They are the funniest group of kids! The second Dale said "Make funny faces!" they knew EXACTLY what to do!! They are the cutest group of superheroes EVER!!

Then there is our Makenna... She has the BEST smiles I have ever seen!!!!! every time i see this smile i giggle a little! I just cant help it! She was the cutest kitty there was this Halloween and for all Halloweens to come!

The night of Halloween we went to Mom and Dad Whipple's ward trunk or treat! Its always a lot of fun. We make sure we go every year! This year they had a huge bouncy gym blow up slide! (I really cant think of what they are called!) For the first little bit Dad Whipple was stuck by the slide while he watched Riley slide over and over and over! We were able to pull her away for a bit but then it was right back to the slide! It was not fun when we had to leave but she was fine once we were able to go trick or treating!

Dale let me have fun again this year and we got all dressed up as pirates!

Aren't we so cute?!?! Ha ha

We cut the trick or treating a little this year and pretty much just went to the houses of people we knew so we didn't end up walking 5 miles but Riley still got LOADS of candy which Dale and I are really enjoying ;) It was really fun to have Riley really understand what was going on and to have as much fun dressing up as we did! I cant wait until Mak understands everything and can walk around with Riley and have fun doing everything!