Halloween

I know I am a week late posting these photos.  Time seems to be getting away from me lately.

Ian and Lily were Anakin Skywalker and Cinderella for Halloween this year.  I took a few photos of the kids before we left to met up with friends for our annual trick or treat tradition. 

Thankfully it was warm this year.  The kids only needed a few layers under their costumes.  I was grateful that the time change happens after Halloween now...it was nice to have some daylight while trick or treating.

Here is a group shot of all the kids together before we went out...my friend's kids were the circus...(ring master, clown, tiger & strong man)

Tradition...

We started a Halloween tradition about 6yrs ago. 

The tradition started out with my friend asking if we would like to join her family over at her sister's house to go trick or treating with them.  My husband was skeptical the first year, but quickly made it a must do every year since.  We have so much fun and look forward to going over to Aunt YoYo's (what the kids call their aunt) hanging out, eating pizza having a couple beers and going trick or treating. 

This year was different for a couple reasons....

First was our friend's husband...my husband's beer buddy...would not be joining us.  Turns out his sister's husband was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago and passed away last week.  The wake was Friday and the funeral was Saturday.  He flew down to attend everything and stayed to take his nephews trick or treating.  All I have to say is cancer sucks and has left 3 children without a father.  Just heartbreaking.  =(

Second reason was Ian asked me if he could stay home and go trick or treating with his friend (who lives around the corner).  I knew it was going to happen sooner or later and made arrangements for him to go with his friend.  He was super excited.

With those differences Halloween still went off without a hitch.  Before we took Ian over to his friend's, I took pictures of Ian Anakin Skywalker.  (We got 4 costumes for him last year at Target for 90% off!)

 The posing was KILLING me.  Gotta love 9yr old boys!

I kind of wish I took Lily out in the back yard with her costume on to get some better photos, but this is what I ended up with...

While my friend was trying to get a shot of all of her kids together, her youngest did NOT want to have anything to do with it.  (LOL, I was cracking up over the sequence of photos I got on the sideline...2yr olds are so much fun)

So this year was a bit different than last year.  Still fun, but a little different.  After Ian got home last night, I realized that I have lost him to trick or treating with his friend from now on.  He came home with SOOOOO much candy that I have no idea how it is going to be gone by next Halloween.

Did you have a fun Halloween?