Darian had a little Halloween party at her pre-school and it was so cute to see all the little ones dressed in costume. Darian's home-made fairy princess costume came out better than I though, so I was very happy!
This was our first year trick-or-treating. Where we live, they designate the day and time for you to go out. Our kids have always had early bedtimes, so this was the first year I was OK with keeping them up later. Our township usually goes out on the Friday closest to Halloween from 6-8 pm, but since we don't live in a traditional style "neighborhood", we were going to a friend's house ON Halloween (Monday).
A little background leading up to the day:
We had a freak snow storm on the Saturday before Halloween which resulted in about 8-10 inches of snow. Here are some back yard pictures from Sunday morning:
We lost power Saturday afternoon and, on Sunday, I packed the kids in the truck and went to Tara's for, what was supposed to be, one night. After checking with the power company the next day, our power was estimated to come back on Thursday night, so we were lucky to have such wonderful caring friends so close to keep us warm in their home! Thanks Tara (XOXO)
I had brought the kids costumes with me because there was a potential to go mall trick-or-treating on Sunday, but we didn't use them until the official trick-or-treat on Monday night. It was quite cold with some snow on the ground still, but we bundled up the kids and went out for our door to door candy gathering =) Here is a group photo of the kids and a close up of Haigen (our monkey):
All in all, we had fun. We got lots of candy from the short hour we went door to door. Darian had trouble keeping up with the older kids, but she didn't seem to care that we just went to every other house. Our little fairy princess and monkey had fun for the hour we went out!
