Halloween (in Ohio)

Guys.  Halloween.  It's a good month.  And we did a whole lot of Halloweening.  And early warning: I have a major crush on our costumes from this year so not only did I take a million pictures (On several different occasions) I will also post at least a thousand of them here.   

Per Atticus' request, we always have to visit the Halloween stores as much as possible.  We try all the scary decorations that move and scream, and we check out all the costumes.

I also spent some time with my mom and sisters at a Halloween store because we are super cool like that.

This is my mother.

MY kids and I went as Tom Hanks characters (sort of) for Halloween.  Atticus loved posing like a cowboy and he memorized a bunch of Woody's pull-string phrases.

I don't know that she will ever have a better costume.

Hanging out with his friends at our goodbye Halloween party.

Atticus and his cute friend, Evy.  
Funny story: Evy lived behind us for over a year before we realized that her mom (and my friend) Katie and I were second cousins.  Our grandmother's (on my Williams side) are sisters.

Halloween Party!

My dad is all about Halloween.  He and my mom go all out for trick-or-treaters.  They wear these creepy old people masks and have scary music and lighting.  They bring the kids in, to their bubbling cauldron to get their candy.  They also love to start out Halloween night by giving out full size candy bars. I had plans this year to take my kids down there for Halloween.  But since we were moving, we trick-or-treated early.

I didn't tell my kids what to expect so their reactions were fun.

I love this.

Here be a million pictures of them in costume before we moved.

This is me channeling Tom Hanks.
"I've never seen that.  I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick.  I-I've never seen that."

Being scary.

It was really hard to pose for my one picture.

This was the first day we tried them both on.

Then we took a million more pictures at my parent's house!
"It's a bone.... It's a human femur bone."

Atticus' face!

So because of our road trip to Boston, we were in Ohio with my brother's family for Halloween.  We had so much fun.  We went to a party with a bunch of their ward friends and then went trick-or-treating.  They do this weird thing where the different neighborhoods have scheduled times for trick-or-treating.  Some of the neighborhoods didn't even do it on Halloween.  And then when it was the scheduled time most everyone hung out on their driveways to pass out their candy.  So there weren't so many doors to knock on.  We still had so much fun and Jonny was thrilled to be getting free candy.

Jonah was a dragon.

Swing batter!

Oh, Anna.  This girl is such a sweet, girly, crazy thing.

Crazies.

Yep.  Princess Anna.

Tinkerbell.

And Peter Pan.  (I guess I put his hat on backward)

Attempt at a group shot.

I love his pull string and her little number 1.

Atticus loves this movie.  I can't imagine why.

Anyway, this is Halloween.