Happy Halloween!

What a great Halloween!! We started off the festivities at our church's fall festival. For the past 2 years, Jackson has gone to this festival dressed in a funny costume. Year One he was Mac and Wesley was PC. Year Two he was John McCain. We couldn't think of anything for this year so decided to just let dress in his real costume - a train engineer.

Last night though we had someone ask us what he was going to be because they were looking forward to seeing what we had thought up for this year - ahh!! Since someone was expecting something, Wesley did not want to disappoint.

At the last minute, we threw together a John and Kate plus 8 costume. It wasn't very creative and I didn't get a good picture, but at least we can say we tried.

He wasn't John...He wasn't Kate...he really was Jon & Kate plus 8 (though after looking at this picture, he really looks as though he is wearing a bomb instead of little people labeled Jon & Kate!)

Wesley was asked to make balloon animals for the kids. Jackson loved watching him work.

Jackson stayed right in front the entire time Wesley was making the animals.

I changed Jackson before the Trunk or Treating began (indoors because of rain!) and I thought he looked so cute as an engineer!

Wesley went around with Jackson and I passed out the candy. My camera died, but luckily my friend Katey sent me this one of him collecting candy...

and this one of Wesley and Jackson checking out the loot!

Tonight, we decided Jackson was old enough to try trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. We only went to two houses, but he was so cute! He was dressed as a basketball player (something warm and easy since we were only going to a few houses).

Our first stop was our neighbor Lori’s. Jackson didn’t quite get the hang of it at the beginning. Instead of taking Lori’s candy, he tried to give her what he had collected from church! Too sweet!

He started to understand - and really like it - when he found out she had bought him a special treat - A Pop Tart!! He loved it!

We were only going to go to Lori's, but she recommended that we go to the house on the corner. She said they handed out "the best stuff." We decided to try it and well, she was right! In addition to two full sized candy bars, Jackson got a ball, a play car, and a clappy toy.

Here's what he ended up with after only 2 stops!!

Jackson's favorite part of the night was handing out the candy at the door. We ended up having around 100 kids come by! We ran out of candy three times. After the first time, we were going to close up shop, but Jackson wanted to hand out his candy (at the end of the night, all that was left of his stash were the M&Ms and the toys!). After we ran out of his stuff, we gave out Fruit Roll Ups!!

It was a great night and got me very excited about next year when Philip will be trick-or-treating with us!!