Emily told you last year about our Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating together. It has made Halloween a really special holiday for us. I must confess I never had warm and fuzzy feelings about Halloween. I mean I love me some candy, but come on. Now, Halloween has the potential to make me downright MISTY! I mean who wouldn’t get a little choked up at Tinkerbell sweetly smooching Optimus Prime?
Or two Tinkerbell cousins having a pre-trick-or-treat fairy huddle time?
While their Peter Pan took off with one of their trick-or-treat buckets and was ready to GO!?
My favorite part of this year’s trick-or-treat was how much Sophie loved it. She was not exactly an, um, willing participant last year, but this year? She spread her wings and got her some CANDY!
She had a pretty good example. She kept calling Kate “Cake” all night, and she thought Cake was pretty darn awesome!
Of course Joshua loved it, too. He kept running down the street yelling, “Trick-or-treat is finally here!” He has been asking about it ALL MONTH! I thought he looked pretty tough in his Optimus Prime costume!
But the best costume of all?? The award goes to Emily’s husband Andy, who channeled “Earl” from “My name is Earl” so well it was probably the scariest thing I saw ALL NIGHT!
(I would also like to note that Andy was rather proud of his efforts and said, “Jenny will you take my picture and put it on ‘Mommin’ It Up’?” Well of COURSE I WILL!)
Ok, since I take waaaay to many pictures, here are some of my faves from the night:
Optimus Tinkerbell!
Em and Sammers
General cuteness
Pre-TOT meeting
Super-happy Sophie
On their way
We had a great time, and we are blessed with such great cousins to share this with each year!
How sweet! Those are great pictures. We had a great Halloween too, with lots of costume time and plenty of candy.
Ok I was REALLY hoping you wouldn’t put that picture of Andy up!
I had a ball on Halloween, but I was SO GLAD when it was over and he shaved that awful mustache!
So cute! – the kids – not Andy’s Earl-ness. 😉
Great costumes!
I just had to give a shout out to Emily. She is looking skinny!
You are good motivation – I’m going to skick my 2-year-old in the jogger right now…
oops – should say, “stick my two-year-old in the jogger.” ha!
Frankly, Andy and I should take our Earl and Larry The Cable Guy’s Dad on the Road!
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I love Andy’s Earl-itude. I knew he was a redneck at heart!
I saw them last night on flickr. Thanks for sharing!
What cute costumes! They all looked like they were having a wonderful time!
Awesome pictures! Everyone looks too cute. That is a great picture of Emily and Sam–I love pictures at that time of night. The light is fantastic–good job photographer!
Side note–my O had a teacher when he was about 18 months old or so named “Miss. Kate.” She immediately became “Miss Cake” and still is to this day! (He turned three in July.)
Some of the CUTEST trick or treating pictures I’ve seen yet. Twin Tinkerbells!
Andy’s costume was AWESOME!!! The pictures of the kid’s are great! Nice job Aunt Ana on the costuming!! 🙂