Halloween 2014

Leading up to Halloween, we hit up the pumpkin patch, carved pumpkins, decorated our house a bit, roasted and ate pumpkin seeds, and dressed the boys in festive shirts my parents bought for them.  We talked a lot about Halloween, and Jackson couldn't wait to wear his costume and enjoy all kinds of candy.

It was fun to have two kiddos to dress up this year.  While I have all of Jackson's old costumes and using one of those for Cole would have been easy, I really wanted to do some sort of theme for the two of them.After Jackson looked through the options on Amazon and settled on Elmo, it was an obvious choice to find a Cookie Monster costume for Cole. 

On Halloween day, Jackson wore his costume to school and enjoyed trick-or-treating, photos, and a party.  Cole got dressed up in his costume (we took in J's old dragon costume, since the Cookie one is a bit hard to get on), and had a great photo taken. 

After a quick dinner with Grampa Kent and Gramma Linda, we headed out for some trick-or-treating. 

Last year, Jackson was still pretty shy and only made it to a few houses for trick-or-treating before calling it a night.  This year though, he was so excited and did a great job saying "trick-or-treat" and "thank you!" or "Happy Halloween" at each of the houses we went to.  Cole enjoyed the walk and he did a great job keeping his head piece on (after dry runs at our house, we weren't sure it would stay on for long).

Then Corey and I headed to a Halloween party (he was a monkey, I was a panda, thanks to his co-workers who loaned us costumes) while the kiddos stayed behind with my parents. J loved snacking on his sweets and opening the door to give candy to other trick-or-treaters.

Another successful holiday!