Boo-tiful Halloween

Getting ready -- I can't imagine having to get more than 2 girls ready on any given day.

One of my favorite things about Arizona is the great Halloween weather -- no winter coats here. Some years it's sweltering, but this year was GORGEOUS.

I have better pictures of the 3 of them, but I love Sadie's enthusiasm

Along with the perfect weather, comes our perfect little neighborhood. We started the night off with a neighborhood potluck at the vacant lot across the street (I'm not sure I ever want anyone to build on that because it creates hours of entertainment for my kids). We had lots of neighbors and friends show up with camping chairs. I always love when the older neighbors without kids at home come out and hang too!



After about an hour, we headed out Trick-or-Treating. We only have two streets in our neighborhood, which is the PERFECT amount for little kids. We gets lots of candy, but not obscene amounts, see all our neighbors and don't get exhausted/bored from walking around in uncomfy shoe. Ellie and Nate took off with the Olpins so Sadie and I took our time and chatted with different friends as we walked along.

The end of the street is always the best because all the people who came to the party, but don't live in the neighborhood are lined up in camping chairs so it's just one long row of candy, including Dustin and Luke who stayed out with the crowd to chat and hand out our candy. We had two pieces left at the end of the night -- HOORAY for the perfect amount.

An hour later we were done and out bag were full (our neighbors are too generous with their handfuls of candy bars) so we piled in the car with Casey and her kids and headed over to the Martin's Spook Alley. Sadie *thought* she wanted to go in and then FREAKED out, Ellie loved it, and Nate skipped it this year and chased around a little girl from his Pre-school instead.Bought this costume on 75% off Target sale last year, Sadie's costume is from my friend Beth years ago and Luke's is from when Ellie was a baby. SO proud of my Halloween frugalness. I did buy Nate's despite having TWO other Spiderman costumes.
By a little after 8 we were at home with Bailey and Brady watching a short Halloween movie and sorting and trading candy. Luke was really set on rolling over to get Sadie's candy.

Poor Sadie is not trading savvy. The kids were trying to trade her jolly ranchers for her chocolate candy bars. BAD TRADE! But all Sadie would say is, "Sure!" I finally had to get involved before Ellie got her hands on all of Sadie's kit kats. I don't know why it matters that much since in one more day I'm dumping all the candy into one bowl so I can pack up their Halloween bags.