Trick-or-Treat!

Happy Halloween, a little late :)  This year we were in Indianapolis for Halloween.  The kids were very excited for Halloween and couldn't wait to dress up.  On Thursday before Halloween Aunt Carol invited us over for a Halloween party with all the little cousins.  They had some bugs, pigs in the blankets with little legs sticking out, spooky mac and cheese and jello in shapes.  I forgot my camera that day, but hope to get some pictues from the other cousins that were there.  Friday I took the kids to the Zoo Boo.  The kids had a blast seeing all the animals with the decorations out.

Not very sure what Parker is doing in this picture. 

We were lucky enough to be walking by the elephant area when they said they were having a show with one of the elephants.  We decided it would be a good place to take a break and have a snack while we watched the show.  The boys thought some of their candy they got at the zoo was a good idea for a snack instead of my grapes.  Who would have guessed.  During the show we got to see the elephant do some tricks, paint a painting and eat a pumpkin in one bite.  The kids loved it.  That night the kids slept so good. 

On Sunday, Nate decided to stay back at the house and wait for trick-or-treaters.  We had never handed out candy in our neighborhood so wasn't sure how much to buy.  Luckly I had bought a secret stash just incase we needed more, which we did.  So at 6:01 we headed out the door, Chace in his stroller.

Eli was so excited to be a pirate, Parker was the same way.....Chace not so excited.  We had bought him a costume and took it back.  Then we got out the other two boys old costumes.  He was still scared of those.  Our last option a colts football player. 

The boys did a great job the first 45 minutes and then Parker got tired.  He didn't know why he couldn't ride in the stroller too.  Usually I would take my double stroller, but figured it would be easier this way than getting him in and out.  Parker ended up making it for an hour and then we went home.  After I took my shoes off Eli asked if we could go back out.  He said we still had half the neighborhood left and the people would be sad if they didn't get to see him dressed up.  So out we went again just me and Eli this time.  He had so much fun, and so did I.  He talked about how this was "super duper!"  We kept saying only one more house, and ended up walking the whole neighboorhood.  He even shared his candy that he got the second time we went out with his brothers.  By the end of the night we were all pooped.  We had such a nice night and made many memories.   Hope everyone else had a good Halloween too....