Celebrating Halloween 2010

I love Halloween and I always have.

We celebrated Halloween tonight (the 30th) as we live in Utah and if Halloween falls on a Sunday, then we celebrate it on Saturday instead. We had our families over and I made the usual chili, cornbread muffins, mexican dip, fruit dip, and my sis Jess brought pizza fondue. My mom brought candy corn cupcakes for dessert. It was fun to have Lisa and Fletcher here from Reno, NV this year as well!

This kiddos and I spent the day preparing for the party and Paul had to work :( We always hate the 1 weekend a month that he has to work.

When Paul got home from work, Cowen fed him some chili :)

and I got my man a beer, while he relaxed and I took care of everything (in my dress, heels, and with full makeup on :)

yep,
I was a 1950s housewife and Paul was going to dress 50s as well, but got home from drill/work so late that he just decided to stay in his uniform. It still fit the theme well. We decided to take a pic of me doing dishes in my dress and heels. haha.

Then, we set off trick-or-treating with the kiddos, my sister Jaime, her husband Joe, and their puppies Essie and Ely.
Madilyn wanted to walk one of the pups as usual,

She usually wants to walk Ely, but tonight she walked Essie. It was cute to see a ladybug walking a bee! They were too adorable and the puppies really enjoyed it.

One of our neighbors dressed up in a grim reaper costume and wandered around the neighborhood all evening. It was awesome! His costume was so realistic and he was on stilts. It really set the mood for trick-or-treating.

pretty creepy!

Madilyn with her neighbor friend Aidan.

This house looked so awesome!

The kids loved all the Halloween decorations and the lady dressed up like a witch.

It was so fun to watch Madilyn and Cowen go door to door.

Cowen absolutely loved it. He would just stand there and pick candy out of the bowels and put it in his little bucket. Everyone loved him, so he scored a ton of candy.

Madilyn was a little more leery this year. She had fun, but it wasn't like last year when she was overwhelmed with excitement.
It was still very magical seeing the whole thing through the kiddos eyes.
So much fun.

My sister Jaime's pup Ely

and Essie

My love carrying the kiddos loot.

Gotta love trying to capture a family shot with 2 little ones. :) Madilyn is trying to eat some taffy without taking the wrapper off first and Cowen was trying to pull his monkey face hood off. Priceless :)

After trick-or-treating we came back and hung out. I always love having our families together. It is always a great time.
Cowen found the beer and thought that he would check it out.

While Madilyn and my mom frosted the candycorn cupcakes :)

Madilyn would put 1 candycorn on the cupcakes, then eat about 10 of them, repeat. haha.

then she made good use of my high heels by using them as ramps for her cars. She is so innovative. She had a great time playing cars with her Uncle Brian, Aunt Jessie and Alex.

Then Madilyn had us put on animal masks from her Curious George game and took pics of us. Here is her Auntie Jaime as a lion.

Happy Halloween!