Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from our little monkey!!

We don't go all out on Halloween, I think it's kind of stupid to be honest, but we do like to have a little fun :) 

Noah got to help carve his first pumpkin. He wasn't sure what to think about the slimy insides, but he thought it was fun trying to pick up the pumpkin seeds and he ate the chunks from the eyes and noses as we carved them.

 Just let me have this sucker, come on!

So sweet :) 

On Friday Josh's work invited everyone to bring their kids in to trick or treat through all the different departments for the last hour of the day, so we got to go meet some of his new coworkers and see his new office. There wasn't a lot of trick or treating going on, we saw a few other trick or treaters but a lot of people left early so they could go to their kids school parties so it was pretty quiet. 

After that we went to Grandma and Grandpa J's house to trick or treat with the cousins. Noah got a bag of smarties and candy corn, his favorites!! Then he tried stealing candy from Casey and Carsten....that's my boy ;) We had dinner and just hung out for awhile, Noah loved having Carsten to follow around and play with! They had so much fun.

Mom, it's cold, can we go inside now??

Checking out all his candy loot!

Saturday it was cold and rainy :( As is our tradition, Grandma A and Gabe and Ashlynn came over for pizza and trick or treating. Except this year they decided they wanted to just hand it out instead of go trick or treat, not sure if that was weather related or age ;) This year I made sure to stock up on candy since we usually have a TON of trick or treaters come through. Well the weather kind of put a damper on that for everyone, we had maybe 20 kids the whole night! So we've got a lot of candy left over. Josh optimistically said "save it for next year!" but I have a feeling he'll be into it way before next Halloween....

I had hoped to take Noah out for a nice walk in his wagon and go 'trick or treat', but with the weather, that didn't happen. He loves to be outside, I was looking forward to taking him so he could see all the kids out and about! I did bundle him up and we found an umbrella and just walked to a few houses around the cul de sac. The neighbors were all being pretty generous with their candy since there weren't many kids out, he ended up with a decent amount for only going to 5 houses!

And that's about it! Unless you count going to Target to check out the clearance stuff...

It was so fun having a little one to do all this with, definitely one of the best Halloween's so far :) His pumpkin candy bucket is sitting on the kitchen table and every time we pass it he's pretty sure he needs something out of it... Sorry Noah, we can't have candy for every meal!