Halloween Wrap Up

We had a couple of fun weeks leading up to Halloween. The week before, we invited my dad to join us at Lee Farms to pick a couple pumpkins. We went with Josh, Kate and Sydney too :) The boys just loved seeing all the farm animals and enjoying the festivities there.

Drew just adored this tractor ride. He literally would squeal with excitement every few minutes!! We all couldn't help but laugh at his sweet, pure joy.

Forrest liked the turkeys. I started to explain that we have turkey for Thanksgiving, but then backed out. Maybe its better not to know that quite yet ;)

Here's Grandpa Brown holding the baby chicks for the boys to pet. They just loved having Grandpa there!! I would of thought that he would get tired keeping up with the boys, but he had as much energy as they did :)

This picture cannot, cannot convey how much Forrest loved the toddler hay maze and farm slide. He probably did this at least thirty times. Each trip was as new and exciting as the first!! My poor dad helped him every single time up the hey stack to ride the slide down. But my Dad never complained, in fact he laughed and cheered for Forrest every time he went down. What a trooper!!





The boys and I made some Halloween decorations for our windows. I did the cutting but they did coloring and pasting. It was so fun to have a full conversation with them about Halloween. The holidays just come alive with littles to share the special events with!!! :D



We went trick or treating with Aunt Kate, Uncle Josh and Sydney. We revisited Grandma and Grandpa Petersons' old neighborhood. The place was hoppin' as usual!! The whole neighborhood goes all out and the whole evening comes alive creativity and energy.

This was Dan's favorite house. They had a "patient" in surgery and you had to trick or treat out of a skeleton hand.

There was drama in the Forrest Halloween costume department. We bought a Halloween costume for him, a pumpkin, which he refused to wear so we took it back. We then tried several costumes over several weeks all ending with his utter disapproval. We gave up, except to let him where his super hero cape (courtesy of cousin Heidi :). Then, out of nowhere the week of Halloween he decides he wants to be a monkey. Not just any monkey, the same monkey he was last year. So, as you can tell, his monkey costume is about three inches too short on him, but it still fit and he was a very happy trick or treater. I guess he was a super monkey?!

It was so fun to spend the evening with the Rosenbergs. Sydney was sooo cute and happy the whole time. We're looking forward to doing this again next year!!

One of the sweetest moments of the evening came when we were all finished trick or treating and were inside drinking cider. The boys spread their loot all over the blanket to admire it all. Drew looked up with a huge smile and said, "This is the best Halloween ever!" We all just looked at each other and started laughing. It was a heart-warming moment :)