Halloween 2011

Today was pretty crazy. I spent the day frantically finishing cleaning, and doing LOTS of cooking and baking. My mom came over and spent her lunch break curling Paige's hair for me. (Just realized this sounds weird, since she has curly hair-but to look like Strawberry Shortcake-the modern version-I had to straighten her hair and then have my mom sort of curl the ends)
I got her ready the rest of the way.
Strawberry Shortcake, clearly. :)

Captain America, enjoying pumpkin pasta before trick-or-treating.
And our little owl, also enjoying the pasta, with Daddy and Grammy.
A bunch of our pictures turned out blurry, I guess the new camera's not great in low lighting. :(

So lots of other people were here but won't be featured because the pics didn't turn out. Tyra was a witch, Lily was a ladybug and Aivree was a duck. But no pics. :(

Alex and Faith were vampires, their mom was a gypsy.
People brought lots of good food and desserts, and we had fun.
Trick-or-treating was fun, as always. It was the first year Cason was actually excited to participate, IN costume. He was hilarious, as always, and FLIPPED HIS LID any time he saw another hero, like The Flash or Ironman. He also thinks he's pretty strong once he gets that costume on with all the muscles. The other day when he put it on he started bench pressing bins in the playroom and throwing stuff all over the room. Haha.

Neely LOVES Halloween, we carried her up the street watching the other kids, and she loved all the houses that had jack-o-lanterns or any kinds of lights. She'd point and kept going "OOOOO!", which made us laugh because she sounded like a little owl should. And then "WOW wow WOW!" and what sounds like "COOL!" She says "wow" and "cool" all the time, and usually uses them the way you'd think, so I think that's what she's really saying. She also had her first sucker, and was a big fan.
She was also really good about wearing her costume, she'd even reach up every so often and make sure the hat was still on. Ha.

I guess now that Halloween is over it's okay to post the pictures of them trick-or-treating at Jess's work the other day. So here are a billion:
And finally, my favorite: