Trick or Treat

Halloween was soo fun this year.  Seriously, the girls have never been so excited about something in their young life.  We had countdowns, we had practice dress-ups, practice hair do's (2 braids like Anna is the most requested hair do still from Aria) and talked and talked about how many more sleeps until Halloween.  I'm pretty sure they won't be this excited about Santa coming, but maybe they will be.  They talked and talked about how many treats they were going to get, they asked what mom and dad were dressing up as, and played with their pumpkin buckets for weeks leading up to Halloween.  Boy oh boy were they ready.

Shane and I are not big fans of dressing up but I did buy a witch hat and Halloween morning I walked into their room wearing it and they were so excited but weren't very happy that I had forgotten my broomstick.  Later Shane walked in while they were eating breakfast dressed as the 'Big snowman' from Frozen (aka threw some white sheets around himself...haha)

The girls got to wear their costumes to their dance class that week and were so excited to see their friends Holland and Bostyn dressed as witches and their teacher as Minnie Mouse.

2 nights before Halloween we carved our pumpkins.  Then the girls wouldn't let me put them back outside.  Every meal after that we had to turn off our lights and turn the pumpkin lights on.

We had to go with the Frozen theme this year.  Not original at all but with all the girl's current Frozen obsession and the fact that they both like different sisters (Siena likes Elsa and Aria likes Anna) we went with it.  Having Jaron be Olaf with the clincher.  The costumes turned out so cute.  I ordered the Elsa and Anna dresses from China and although I gave myself 2 months to get the, after 2 failed tries, the 3rd time, they finally showed up 7 days before Halloween.  Jaron's Olaf costume turned out soo cute.  Brigitte helped me make the body part out of a t-shirt and then Shane's sister crocheted the Olaf hat.  It took her soo much time but by the reaction we got on Halloween night it was well worth it. I was just happy he didn't pull it off and he really did wear that for a couple hours that night all around the neighborhood.

The girls had a blast trick or treating and it was so cute cuz after they would get their candy they would both say thank you and then Aria would yell so loud "Happy Halloween"  Everyone got a kick out of them, we even had people take pictures on their doorsteps.  The girls got a bunch of candy, not too much though.  I re-gifted some to other trick or treaters and then hid some from them so it wasn't out of control.  The girls almost had as much fun passing out candy to our trick or treaters then they did actually getting the candy.  They loved answering the door and if they say an Elsa or Anna that was a huge added bonus and they were yelling 'Mom, Elsa!!!'

The next morning they sat at the kitchen table organizing and playing with their candy for several hours.

Needless to say Halloween was a success.  They are already asking when it's Halloween again.  I keep telling them all the holidays we have to go through before it's Halloween again.  I've told them so many times this week that they almost have the order memorized.  They're pretty excited about Easter as well and already talking about Easter eggs, maybe they like candy more then they do actual presents.