halloween 2013

it began with the halloween parade at school in the afternoon.
my little kindergartener looked pretty darn cute...

the 8th graders always have a big halloween celebration with their 1st grade buddies.
it was so cute to see christopher taking care of his little friend.
proud moment for me to observe him watching over and teaching him good manners.

i only had two trick-or-treaters home for the annual front door picture (plus the babe:)
the boys both had tournament football games and got home later...
yes, crazy that there are catholic school football games on halloween!

 uncle bobby still gets into the holiday - makes it so fun for my kids:)

i got to spend the evening with this beautiful little superbaby attached to me:)

we went to a neighborhood block party before heading out door to door.
ella and elise dressed the same again this year.
they looked adorable, as usual.  

we stopped at grandma's for a little rest and ella got to see her little cuz, felix.
then we headed to elise's to hang out at their huge halloween party for a bit.

the little guy was knocked out on me when we got home.
he slept on me most of the evening.
i loved having my little babe asleep on me, so sweet :)

he looked so adorable when he woke up too.
i could just eat him up, oh how i love these babies of mine...

nani has come over for years on halloween.
she stays at our house and passes out candy while we take the kids trick or treating.
this year it was especially helpful to have her there with the boys schedule.
after football, they were able to come and go with their friends - thank u nani!

here is andrew with his friends who came over after football to go out in the 'hood with him.
couldn't get the red eye out, and i'm not quite sure what his costume is -
i gave him a million ideas in the days prior, he apparently didn't like any of them.

chris and his friends decided last minute to go as men in black.
they threw the outfits together when they got home.
apparently there weren't enough suit jackets to go around, makes it all the more funny.

john started doing this pose in the pictures, so some of andrew's friends joined in too.
they all had a great time, so fun for them to have so many school friends nearby.

chris and i went to our next door neighbors halloween party the weekend before.
put these costumes together 10 minutes before we left, luckily we had them in the closet.
i borrowed the skirt from ella (with some tweaking :)

we went for about 15 minutes without darrel while he slept.
the kids called when he woke up and chris walked right next door to get him.
it was so nice to be so close to home!

 

when we got home, he fell asleep on ella (a regular occurence in his early days).

he looked so adorable on her, i could not get over it!

he looked like a little doll in the picture above - so dang cute.

i just cannot get enough of this precious baby, i am soaking him up.

when i had him in the carrier on halloween a lady yelled out from across the street,

"is that a real baby?" - ha too funny.

 

it was a great halloween and so nice that the next day was a friday = short school day.
i look forward to the next couple years when it will fall on the weekend!