Halloween 2012

This year, Halloween found us with a Recon commando, Rocky from "Shake it Up" (see picture of character below) and a ladybug.  It was quite warm on Halloween, making for a nice trick-or-treating experience.

We received an invitation to trick or treat with friends in a neighborhood we'd never trick-or-treated in before (thanks, Osbornes!), so Connor and Hadley did that along with Daddy and Mommy while Kylee trick or treated with a different family.  It was a "divide and conquer" sort of holiday. :)

Our celebrating began with Connor and Kylee's fall parties at school.  The kids (and their classmates) are always very gracious to include Hadley in the fun.

Pictures of our three little ghouls all dressed up:

One scary dude...Brandon kept telling him to be sure to smile! ;)

The smile says it all, folks.

Our ladybug with antennae

Just wings...and a handful of chocolate

Uncle Jordan took Halloween to another level when he came to US to bring yummy treats.  It is so fun to have he and Aunt Mandy close by!  We took advantage of the opportunity to snap a few photos....

Three full buckets of candy later, we settled in at home.  I did the traditional post-trick-or-treat sort (who on EARTH wants to be bothered with Smarties, Sweet Tarts, and those random flavored Tootsie Rolls when digging for chocolate) and found that all the kids had made quite a haul!  We made record time with the candy-eating this year, having it all gone by Thanksgiving.

YUM!