Your Favorite Little Monsters on Halloween

 

Happy Halloween from your favorite Monsters and our little Boo! This Halloween we joined our sweet Fant friends and her sister's family for a night of block party trick and treating.

 {The Zellners, Fants, and McLeans}

When we arrived at the Fants, we were all hugs and excitement. Her favorite ninja turtle and princesses greeted her with the best hugs and even let her play with their toys. 

 Aubrey loves her little Princesses and also her sweet Lion friend, Ellie.

Let the Trick or Treating begin! This year Aubrey was "one of the big kids" as she "ran" and stumbled from house to house. You would catch her saying, "Mommy, I fall down" as she quickly got back up, picked up her purple pumpkin, and followed behind her little playmates.This was such a huge change from last year and just makes her mommy and daddy so excited that each year she will be able to participate even more.

As Aubrey made her way to the houses, she would say, "I eat candy!" or "More candy please!" I of course would quickly repeat, "Trick or Treat" and "Thank You!" It's a learning process for sure. Our little girl surely had a good system as she continued to get handfuls of candy from their sweet neighbors.

I surely loved celebrating a night of sweet imagination with these sweet families.

 {Kristin, Jenn (baby Charlie), and Me (baby Liam expected March 2016}

{The Gents- Ray, Brandon, & Michael}

After a few hours of trick or treating and food truck goodies, we made our way back to the house.

 Our little sweet filled with sugar and spice.

The kids went through their candy and enjoyed a few delicious treats.  

{Bryson & Aunt Stephanie}

What a fun night of tricks and treats with sweet friends. We are so thankful for these relationships and memories made. Happy Halloween!

Fall Festivities 2015

From our ABF Arboretum excursion to see the Pumpkin Village to our Patch on the Prairie with Oma, our fall family fun, and Trick-or-treating on Halloween with our friends, we have had an exciting amount of fall festive fun this year. Enjoy a picture post of our fall festivities.

Pumpkin Village at the Arboretum with our ABF

We love our fall family fun with our ABF friends. On Saturday, October 17th we met our sweet ABF friends for a day of pumpkins and festive fall fun.

 {Aubrey & Audrey- 2 years}

 {Kayleigh, Aubrey, Eva Mae, and Audrey}

 {The Ladies & Littles @ The Arboretum}

 {The Gents}

 {Snack Time resting}

{Aubrey style'n in her shades}

What a perfect and exciting afternoon of pumpkins and pals at the Arboretum.

Patch on the Prairie with Oma

On Sunday, October 18th we were gifted with a small visit from Oma and Opa as they had attended my father's 50th high school reunion that weekend only a few hours away. We took advantage of our Sunday evening after Aubrey's naptime by taking Oma and our little family to the Patch on the Prairie.

 {Pumpkin & Penny Penguin Pictures}

 {Pumpkin love}

 {loving on Oma}

{Sunday Funday at the Patch on the Prairie}

This Fall gave us many opportunities for costume parties and play. We were able to celebrate sweet Clara's 2nd birthday- a costume party.

 Aubrey went as the beautiful Snow White.

We surely loved celebrating Clara's 2nd birthday and costume party. There were some adorable sightings from Princess Ariel, Cinderella, a pretty peacock, an astronaut, and our sweet Snow White. 

 

 

On Wednesday, we met up with our ABF for a night of dinner fellowship, a costume photo opt, and play date with our littles. 

As Halloween quickly approached, our little family enjoyed fall festive fun including pumpkin carving, dressing our pumpkin with twissler hair, triangular eyes and nose, and marshmellow teeth. And while we may look interested and excited about touching the "inner workings" of the pumpkin, as soon as Auby had a seed on her, she was all done. But the pumpkin's redeeming qualities were the strips of candy hair and triangle eyes. 

 {Halloween Jammies from Papa Z and Grammy}

 

Sully brought his little Boo to his work costume contest. Let's just say with the help of a toddler and a grown man in a full Monsters Inc costume, they blew the competition out of the water. They took home 1st Prize!

Happy Fall Festivities 2015. To see our Little Moster of a Halloween, be sure to keep posted! More to come soon!

Wall-E Love, Halloween Fun, and Trick-or-Treats 2014

 

{Ray's home made Wall-E costume}

 



I absolutely love the fall. It brings cooler weather, fall festivals, yummy drinks and eats, boots and scarves, themed dress up and photo opts, and so many special memories with my family. This weekend we celebrated Halloween, traveled to Yesterland Farm in Canton with our Fantlet friends, and enjoyed our 3rd annual ABF Chili Lunch with sweet church friends. It can't get any better than that. This post will focus on Fun Halloween activities, Wall-E Love, and Fantlet fun. Other activity links to follow:)

 

Halloween day fell on a Friday this year. Ray spent most of Thursday night and Friday morning finishing special touches on his Wall-E costume. I have to say, it is my most favorite costume to date. This year we were a little rushed for time... to say the least. With Auby's birthday and birthday party, dedication, visiting family, and busy schedules, we kind of procrastinated on this year's costumes. But in the end I think they turned out great. Before daycare, I took a few fun pictures of Auby and her cat ears. I love these adorable pictures of our girl. The mornings are some of my favorite moments with her. She continues to crack me up and keep me on my toes but I do love every moment of it.

 

While the kitty ears quickly became a chew toy, we finished our breakfast and were ready to begin our day. Halloween at school was a lot of fun with my first graders. It was surely a crazy and chaotic day, but filled with so much excitement by my first graders. From Pumpkin Math on Thursday, planting in our garden, a birthday celebration, our Friday Fair, a Magic School Bus Haunted House, candy graphing, and lots of super hero dress, it was an absolute blast.

 

After school, we quickly gathered our things and made our way to Kristin's parent's house for pizza and trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. The weather had turned rather chilly. Thank goodness for baby turtle-necks, jackets, and mama cuddles to stay warm. It was a perfect night. Thank you so much for our dear friends for letting us join them.

 





{Wall-E, Eva, and our precious plant}

After dinner, it was time to get our kiddos ready. I just love watching Auby and the twins "play" together. There is nothing sweeter than Madelynn's running hugs and hearing both of the girls say Aubeeeee!

 



{Madelynn & Emily}

{A Little Lego Fun}

 

What a special moment! Auby's first Trick-or-Treat was with Kristin's mom, Cindy. I am so thankful that they captured these little pictures and a video of Aubrey's first Trick-or-Treat and Halloween experience.

 

Let the night's funtivities begin!

 





{Yay Candy!!!}

 

I cannot tell you how excited she was about these nerds. So I had a definite mommy fail when I realized that she had been chewing on the box and had nerds all over her tutu. Plus who knows how many made it in her mouth as well as any other chocolate candy she devoured that night.

 

{Emily & Madelynn}

{Fantlet Friends}

{Madelynn's Sucker Treat}

{Auby's Halloween Bucket}

{Trick-or-Treat}



 

From our first trick or treats and delicious eats, attempting to choose candy, throwing our candy bucket, strolling around the neighborhood, chilly night, baby cuddles, and good friends, I have to say it was a successful and memorable night.

 

She did so well even though it was a bit after her bedtime. Once we returned, we quickly changed into our girly skeleton jammies, assessed our candy (as you can see sucker in hand), we said our good-byes, and left for home. Happy Halloween 2014!

Super Daddy & Our Little Strawberry

I celebrated a very special Halloween at home this year with this amazing super daddy and our adorable little strawberry.

 

 

I was a bit nervous for the many upcoming door bell rings with a newborn. So we decided to forgo the traditional Halloween trick or treating and candy pass out and opted for a less optimal bowl of candy and a sign. Yes we were those people this year. The funny thing was that we totally forgot to turn on the light. Talk about epic fail. Oh well. I'm obviously not too torn up about it as we ended up with a pretty good bowl of goodies and enjoyed a night just with our little fam of three. For dinner we dined on a Papa Murphy's Halloween themed pizza and a redbox movie.

 

It was a perfect and low key night with my sweet Super Daddy and Little Strawberry! I can't wait for next year when we'll have a one year old and will be having our first taste of trick or treating. Happy Halloween to you and yours!