Halloween Night 2012

Halloween night Eli decided that he wanted to go dressed as Jake the Pirate. I was secretly really happy about this decision because I knew how cute he was going to look in it, and I was right! While we waited on Daddy to get home from work so we could go trick or treating, we went outside and took some pictures. My little pirate was the cutest thing ever!

Pirate Face = Scrunch Up Your Nose

Taking these pictures also helped me out with his birthday party which was coming up that weekend. I was able to use some of these as decorations! I love when little details work out like that!

Once Daddy got home we loaded up in the truck to go trick-or-treat. Our first stop was to my friend Torri's house, or ToTo as Eli calls her. She and my friend Judy from work and her other friend Ginna were going to be passing candy out to all the neighborhood kids and she'd asked us to stop by. Torri and Trey, her husband, just bought this house and they've been working their tails off updating it. Torri's mom used to work for the doctor that lived here so the house holds a lot of sentimental value to her. The house is looking FABULOUS and I love stopping by to see all the progress. We took a couple of pictures at Torri's house and then moved on to our next stop, Trunk-or-Treat, at our church.

Eli and ToTo

Isn't Torri's door just precious?!?

Fighting those bad witches

They talked me into wearing a witch hat and taking a picture with them.

Josh said to do "spirit fingers".

We enjoyed walking around and seeing all the neat themes of the trunks. Eli really enjoyed the jumper that the church rented for the event. He played on that thing for so long! He didn't want to leave, but eventually we had to because it was bedtime for Jake the Pirate. It was another great Halloween! Eli got TONS of candy. I let him eat a few pieces and then I confiscated it. Don't judge ;) I'll end up taking it to school to use in my Treasure Box. Now that Halloween was over, it was time to start focusing on Eli's birthday coming up that weekend. I had so much left to do!

Eli thought Mr. Art's costume was pretty cool.

An homage to Josh's favorite show now....Duck Dynasty

Josh and his friend from work, Leslie

Having a BLAST on the jumper!

One of my favorite families...the Shirley family

Our family 

Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween everyone!

Trunk or Treat 2010

Saturday night our church hosted it's annual Trunk or Treat event for our community. Church members sign up to decorate the trunks of their cars and pass out candy to the 1000+ people that come through our event. Josh and I have been participating every year since we moved here in 2005. It's one of my favorite events of the season!

This year our family decided to do an Old McDonald's farm theme. Josh and Eli were Old McDonald and Young McDonald. Lisa, Josh's aunt, was a pig. Susan, one of our friends, and I were the cows, Jordan and Addison were sheep, and everyone else that didn't want to wear a costume wore the letters E-I-E-I-O.

We had a BLAST that night. Eli loved passing out candy to all the kids and he really enjoyed going around and filling up his trick or treat bag. He tried to eat all the candy in the bag, but I only let him have a couple of pieces. I know, I know...what a mean Mommy!

It was a night full of excitement and fun! I'm so glad our church hosts this event for our community every year. I can't wait to see what we're going to do next year!

Our group picture. Next year, we're picking a spot that doesn't directly face the sun.

My two farmers

Emily and Bolton

Eli trick or treating around the cars.

This group won best theme. Didn't they do a FABULOUS job?

Eli tried to convince Whestley to give him all the candy in her bowl.

Grease!

D'Shay and Dusty

The Flintstones

Oscar Mayer weiner group

A mama sheep and her little lamb :)

Sampling the candy

Our little family :)

Spiderman even made an appearance

Eli loved passing out candy to the kids that were walking around the cars.

Aren't our pumpkins cute? Josh did a great job carving them!

Got milk? Mooooo!