"Happy Trick or Treat!"

Evelyn hasn't wanted to go trick or treathing in the past, preferring to stay home and help hand out candy on halloween instead. This year, however, she started talking about early on and was quite excited to go out and get some candy!

Our fun started at my mom's. Both my Tinkerbell and my monkey were happy to see Grandma and Grandpa Doug!

*Just so you know.. some of these pics are blurry! :( My camera battery was dying.. some are good, some not so good!

My sweet Monkey

Tink

SO hard to get a good picture of them together.. sheesh! But I love Evelyn's face in this one!

Matthew with Grandma and Grandpa Doug (and Sophie the dog!)

Matthew raiding Grandma's pantry!

Since Evelyn has never been trick or treating before, Grandpa Doug suggested they "practice". She and Grandma knocked, Grandpa Doug answered. The first thing out of her mouth was "Happy trick or treat!" No prompting needed! It was so sweet! Thanks Grandpa Doug.. good thinkin'!

We left my mom's and headed to our friends the McIlraith's for their son Colin's first birthday party. He has had quite the year and we are so thankful that he is now a happy and healthy one year old!

Singing to "baby" Colin (as Evelyn calls him)

Happy Birthday Boy!

From there we went to Jody's. I am bummed this picture wasn't better cuz the kids love her so very much!

She just had knee surgery so that's why she is positioned the way she is!

FINALLY.. we made it home to grab our pumpkin basket and head out to get some loot! First, tho, daddy put a glow stick in our pumpkin. Evelyn thought it was SO neat that its face was lit up!

You have to click and enlarge the picture to see her face. Priceless!

She didn't want to wear a coat so I made her put pants on under her outfit!

She was squealing and giggling the entire time we were out, loving every minute of it. She was SO cold.. but there was no way she was going to go home!! She was polite and would always say, "happy trick or treat!". She just had a blast!

We ended or evening at Troy and Lucille's. They live across the street and are the dearest people.

Here is them with Evelyn in 2007 (we just took her over there her first halloween). Yes, that is the same costume Matthew is wearing this year!


And tonight...

Troy is the most gentile of souls, but Evelyn has always been a bit timid around him. Tonight, tho, she sat right next to him without a fuss. He was pretty happy about that!

And I'll just end this SUPER long post with this...

This is what it's all about!!