We love Halloween!

Planning for Halloween is pretty much a year round activity at our house.  What we want to be for Halloween changes from time to time as the year goes on.  This year Aleah was set on her costume! She didn't waver except for one moment when we were at Costco buying Cade's costume.  She even grew out her hair so that it would be just like Astrid's (from How to Train Your Dragon)!

Cade changed his mind regularly, but once he saw the police/swat costume at Costco he was set.  He was so excited!  We bought Cade's costume and then my Mom, Dad, Grandma Bushman, Brad and I got to work on making Aleah's costume.  It was a lot of work.  My Mom did most of it, she is completely amazing!  It was a group effort that turned out incredible!  The best costume ever!

Our first party began with some pumpkin carving.  We grew our own pumpkins again this year!  We love our home grown pumpkins.

These kids totally rocked their costumes!  

I was a bat and Brad was a pirate, just in case you couldn't tell.

Grandma Bushman was sick and not able to make it to our party.  We made her some Halloween get well cards.  It was amazing to see the uniqueness and creativeness of each card!

Every Halloween party needs a doughnut eating contest!

Aleah and Cade got to do a Halloween parade at their school.  It is always fun to see all the different costumes.

They both had parties during their classes.  Cade's teacher sent me some pictures.  I wasn't able to help with their parties this time.

Aleah and Cade got to carve two pumpkins this year.

On Halloween night we had a dinner party with our neighbors in our circle.  It is a fun tradition that we look forward to every year.  We had dinner and visited.  We handed out candy and took our kids trick-or-treating.  It was such a fun night.  It was nice that it was good weather too!

The next morning Aleah and Cade organized and divided their candy.  They are so sweet to each other, always making sure that they both have equal amounts.