Luigi, Sleeping Beauty & Pirate

We've had a busy but fun day. We had a long morning at church 8:45-12:45, then Alexee and Crosby took good naps, then we went back to church for the fall festival at 4:00 and finally finished the evening with trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.

Here they are before we left for the festival:

Just like when his brother wore this pirate costume 5 years ago, Crosby had no interest in leaving the hat on. Lane was placing it on his head right before I snapped the pictures. Here Alexee is pointing to Snow White, our neighbor's little girl across the street.

Luigi
(Isn't the mustache funny!? I had to trim it a little so it wouldn't poke him in the eyes!)

Sleeping Beauty
(As expected, the crown, wand and light-up shoes did not make it very far.)

Pirate

For fun, here's Rhett in the pirate costume in 2005

The fall family festival was super fun for the kids. It was sponsored by the Sageworks community, and they put together such a great event for families! Many of the "older adults" dressed up and decorated their cars/booths for the trunk-or-treat, which made it extra neat. This was Clifford & Emily Elizabeth--very cute!

Rhett hugging Clifford

I loved this picture of R with his arm around his sister. :) She was a little bit shy tonight for some reason (unusual), so he was sweet to stay right with her and encourage her to walk up to the cars.

This was a cool booth: Jonah's Fishing Hole. A suburban had been converted into a whale!

A sweet Veggie Tales group!

One of R's favorites because he watches this cartoon--Flintstones! Great costumes, guys! :)Crosby found another chicken that he liked

fun bounce house

Alexee was excited to see her friend, Ann Katherine

It was fun seeing lots of friends there.

Snack time. They were giving away popcorn, bottled water and grilled hot dogs.

This picture cracks me up! Love the mustache!

baby boy

Don't be alarmed, Luigi had done nothing illegal. This State Police car was parked there for the kids to look at. They even got to climb inside and push the siren button!

Huge blow-up slide. Alexee turned back about half-way up, but Rhett thought it was great! He flew down it!

Sleeping Beauty with neighbor friend, Glenda the Good Witch

When we got home we trick-or-treated with a few friends through our neighborhood. Toward the end of the walk, Alexee told me, "Momma, my whole body is tired." It reminded me of Halloween when R was about that age and he told us, "My shoes are getting tired. I need to go put them in the closet so they can rest."

Luigi & neighbor friends

I'm so glad the kids had a good time, but trick-or-treating made me a nervous wreck to be honest. It was hard to keep my eye on everyone because the girls and boys kept running to different houses, it was dark, lots of other kids were wandering around and cars were constantly driving by. I was so relieved to get everyone back home safely and lock the doors! Lane stayed home to give C a bath and hand out candy, which was my job last year and I think it's the better one! :) I always do this after being at stressful places with the kids (well, my definition of stressful...the lake, pool, crowded/busy places where they could easily get lost, etc.), but all night I dreamed about searching for them in the dark and not being able to find them!