Halloween Night!

We get an insane amount of Trick-or-Treaters at our house.  It is so much fun to see all of the awesome costumes that the kids are wearing and we love seeing all the familiar faces of our friends and neighbors.  This year, the Uffelmans came over early to take some pictures and have dinner with us.  Brinn and Luke looked so cute and Matthew and Emily got a kick out of their costumes!

Also joining us were Mark, Jocelyn, Gabe and Brennan, Heavenly and Pascale, Ali and Terry, and Auntie Gina!  We had a full house which is exactly what we love on Halloween night!  All of the cousins were loving being together.  As usual, we had some pizza and other Halloween goodies before heading out on the Trick-or-Treating trail!

We got out our dry ice and placed it in our cauldron which is always a hit with everyone.  It seems no matter how old or young you are, dry ice is just kind of fascinating!  This was Heavenly's first time here on Halloween and she fell victim to our annual prank.  Every year, Damien makes his famous caramel apples.  They are not only famous because they taste and look so good, but famous because one of them isn't an apple.  It's an onion.

This year, we set Heavenly up for a 'Caramel Apple Eating Contest'.  Heavenly is always totally into contests and she was going to race Mark to see who could eat the apple fastest and get to the middle of the apple.  When we said, 'Go!' she went for it!  We were all cracking up because we knew what was really happening but she wasn't noticing it was an onion!  The caramel was so thick that she was just chewing that.  And then it happened.  One big bite in and she figured it out and threw the 'apple' on the floor.  We were dying.  We love you Heavenly and love that you were such a great sport!

Damien and I like to dress up every year but couldn't figure out a good costume!  That was until I happened upon this amazing Bacon and Egg duo.  I mean, seriously.  How funny is that!

Trick-or-Treating was awesome!  Pascale had her first door knocking experience and we also found Auntie Gina on our route!  She tried to make it down from SF as soon as she could and we found her!  She ran home and changed into the hot dog costume that I had waiting here for her.  It's funny to us because we have called her Hot Dog Gina since Michael and Claire were little.

The kids stayed out and Trick-or-Treating for various durations.  Of course, my sugar obsessed kids stayed out for over an hour.  God love Damien for staying out there with them!  When they got home, we checked their candy and then they sorted them out into categories in order to trade with each other.  We used to do that as kids, too.  It really brought us back.

This Halloween was exceptionally awesome!  Emily is so independent now.  No more running after babies or worrying too much.  She just stuck it out with the big kids and made it so easy!  We hope everyone had a safe and spooky Halloween!  The kids are already talking about costumes for next year!