Happy Halloween

Connor as Yoda, Toni as a Cat



  I will be the first to admit that Halloween had never been my favorite holiday.  I'm not sure if its because I live in a neighborhood with not alot of kids, the greediness of the older kids who don't dress up, come  around with a pillow case and give you the look of "are you kidding me just one piece?" or what, or maybe its because it crashing into my birthday (which is the following day) but Jon and I would either hide in the back of the house watching movies in the dark or we would go over to Colette's house to watch Waylon trick or treat.  I'm going to say that all of that changed this year because we actually went to a neighborhood that everyone was involved and because we got to dress up Connor.



Connor and his first pumpkin

Flash back a few days before when we picked out Connor's first pumpkin.  I was so excited to carve this with him and he wanted nothing to do with it.  I let him have it and he wouldn't even stick his hands in the pumkin.  So Daddy ended up carving the pumpkin while Connor had dinner.   I made some great pumpkin seeds with it though and at least we had a simple yet happy little pumpkin.

Connor giving his pumpkin kisses



Happy Halloween!! 10-31-11



   So a few days later we headed out to the Pickards for the annual Trick or Treating.  It was SO FUN since Connor and Toni were older now and were able to be involved.  Alot of family gets together for this night as not only is it Halloween, but it is Uncle Jake's birthday as well (and they usually throw mine in there as well since it's the follow day :)  Waylon this year went as Jake the Neverland Pirate, Toni was a little kitty cat and Connor was Yoda.  I wanted Connor to be Yoda last year for Halloween but he was only 7 or 8 weeks old so he was still too small. But THIS year...he was PERFECT!!  I couldn't get over how cute my little Yoda was!

What was so funny about Halloween this year, was that Connor was just in awe of Toni and Waylon who were dressed up.  He knew that he knew who they were, but he wasn't sure as they were wearing funny clothes!  Little did he know that he was dressed up too :)

Happy as Yoda

Colette and I took the kids around the neighborhood and I have never expierenced Halloween this way.  In her neighborhood it was a full on family affair.  Everyone was out with their kids right as the sun was setting, nothing scary out, 90% of the kids were under 6, all the houses were lit up and people who didn't have kids sat outside with candy, it was the perfect summer evening.  I just pulled Toni and Connor in the wagon while Colette took Waylon around (Toni and Connor are still to young for candy)  Papa and Grandma were there, so was Grandpa Smith and Aunt Jeannine, it was so good that they came out as well.  We had such a great time just being silly.  Although we don't celebrate the real reason for Halloween, it was nice to be silly with the little ones dressed up so cute.

Papa and his munchkins

In a few short weeks we will be coming up on Thanksgiving!! Aunti Nicole was also here for a short visit this week which was awesome. Connor always loves hanging out with her.  I will put pictures up of her visit once she sends them to me in an email so I can place them on my blog (wink wink)  Until then, enjoy this little video of Connor on Halloween!

Love Jon, Cort & Happy :)

PS - Yes, Connor has had his little hair cut since then so he doesn't have that huge "Puckerman" mohawk coming down the front anymore. It was hard to have to start cutting my little man's hair :)