Halloween 2010

This year, Halloween was jam-packed. I imagine this'll happen pretty much every year, considering Anya's birthday is 2 days before the holiday. Anyway, away we go with pictures:

Holiday festivities began on the 29th (birthday!) with a preschool Halloween parade. Anya didn't feel like wearing the head to her elephant costume, but I think she was just as cute without it.

Teacher Bonnie was the the Morton Salt Girl and Teacher Emily was a Scrabble Board

Then that evening, we hosted our PEPS Halloween party. Somehow we managed to not take many pictures, but there were some good costumes. Anya, considering she turned 3 that day, decided to wear only her birthday suit to the party. Of course.

Kids did crafts, ran around, and had fun. It was a nice time. We sure are fond of our PEPS friends.

Then on Sunday, we got together with the Seligs and went to a neighborhood Halloween parade & did some trick-or-treating. Anya decided at the last minute she'd rather be a princess than an elephant.

Anya, Riley, and Flynn. Sweet, angel-faced children.

Neighborhood parade. Much fun. Very loud.


Cow, princess, and Greatest American Hero (I still think Chris should've worn the costume he wore to work. Wuss).


Trick or Treat!

Excited about their first candy score.

I think this is the first year Anya is starting to "get" Halloween. She was all about dressing up. Slightly less about the candy (I think it was more about keeping up with the big kids she was trick-or-treating with), but she certainly got into the excitement of it all. Anya cared about the candy, of course, after she got home and surveyed her loot. She got 1 piece per day for a few days until suddenly the Halloween Fairy showed up and took it all away to be handed out next year (I dunno...I made it up on the spot when she was demanding more candy. She accepted that explanation, so we'll go with it.