Thursday, November 5, 2009

Halloween!

We had a very fun Halloween this year! Logan and I were brave and actually went trick-or-treating door to door in the neighborhood around the corner. Our comfort zone usually makes us wait to hear word about a trunk-or-treat, because we are pretty shy people. Seriously, knocking on a stranger's door and demanding candy is scary for us, even though we're supposed to. But we wanted Gwen to get the full Halloween experience, so we bit the bullet and did it! It was a lot of fun and Gwen had a blast! She came home and chowed down immediately on a couple candy bars. She was in heaven.

The night before Halloween, Logan and I carved our pumpkin. It was our first time ever carving a pumpkin and we were quite proud of the results.
Do you see it? It's a scary face peeking out through blinds. Very startling.
Gwennie loved her cowgirl costume. She wore it all day on the 30th and on Halloween. She even let me do her hair in pigtails. She usually hates for me to do anything with her hair, but I told her that cowgirls wear pigtails, so she let me.
And our Phoebe was an elephant! She laughed and laughed when I put it on her. She must have felt silly, but she was the cutest elephant ever!
Here's us checking the mail before trick-or-treating. Once we turned the corner, Phoebe was sound asleep.
It was a beautiful night. Gwen got extra candy for being so cute. After a half an hour, we returned home and made cinnamon hot chocolate, ate some candy, and convinced Gwennie that she needed to go to bed. I had to wrestle her out of her costume. She looked so confused the entire night, but I knew she had a lot of fun.

3 comments:

Michelle said...

What and adorable cow girl and elephant! Yay for you to actually going trick or treating! That pumpkin you carved turned out awesome!

Owen Family said...

I must admit that those were the cutest trick-or-treaters ever. Too bad Phoebe missed out by sleeping but she'll have plenty of Halloweens to come.

Eliza said...

I laughed at the first picture cuz it looks like Logan has a pumpkin on his head! Cool carving! Your girls were super adorable! I love that elephant costume and I can't believe how old they both are looking. I remember how funny Rex was last year, that first year of really being able to understand what's going on (sort of). I'm sure it does seem so strange to them that they can go around dressed in these costumes and ask people for candy! But what fun!