Halloween 2009

Agh, Halloween is now over and a lot of chocolate has disappeared from Olivia's pumpkin...and not because she ate it (it was me)!!! Oh well, there is still a ton of their loot left! We were planning on going to The Pumpkin Walk this year but the day we planned on going Olivia came down with a stomach bug and fever. So needless to say we missed it 2 years in a row now! Oh well, there is always next year. To top the day off that Olivia was sick, Frank informed me that he caught Alyson drinking out of Olivia's sippy cup. 'Oh great' I thought. I had spent a good part of the day trying to keep them quaratined and then Alyson decided that she was SO thirsty that she needed to drink from Olivia's cup. Thankfully, she never got sick.

On Thursday, we went to our church for the Trunk-or-Treat. Olivia and Alyson had a great time, especially when it came to treat time! Olivia was a witch, Alyson was a butterfly, Frank was a rodeo clown and I was Medusa. The only thing I bought for mine was snakes from the $1 store to put in my hair and Frank just bought face paint and the blue wig. All cheap costumes this year!


Frank's dad was a clown so Frank decided he would be a clown this year. He borrowed my dad's hat, boots, hankerchief and shirt to finish off the look. He called it the 'Tribute to the Grandpas' since they have both passed away. He incorporated both of their looks very well and he did pretty good with the face paint, better than I thought he would have done. I told him he should be a rodeo clown in real life for fun, and then quickly took it back because I forgot they are in the arena with a bull!


Halloween day came around and we still had not carved our pumpkins. Frank didn't have to go to work until later that afternoon so we decided to carve them in the morning. Olivia had a great time! She wasted no time putting her hands in the pumpkin to dig out the goop. Alyson wandered in at one time and tried eating the goop too! After 1 pumpkin Olivia was done and left the other 2 for Frank to do.

Olivia had a great time Trick-or-Treating this year and wasted no time trying to dig in to her candy! Because she is so darn cute she got a ton of candy at the 4 places we went to. When we got to my grandma's place (Olivia's great-grandma) she said "Wow, you must have been to a lot of places" when she saw how much candy we already had. I said "Nope, this is just from 3 other places!" Olivia used the same witch costume and hat I used when I was a child. Alyson also used the same costume that Olivia wore when she was the same age. They both sure looked pretty darn cute!

(left) Alyson

(right) Olivia

And to end this post...here is a flashback picture of Frank and I on Halloween! We had to dress up for our Lamaze class we were doing. I had no idea what we could possibly be with me being massive (I only had 6 weeks to go before having Olivia) so we ended up being Hugh Hefner and his Playboy bunny! There were some pretty funny costumes there in the class as well that night! A few that I can remember was a hunter and target (wife's tummy being the target), a pregnant nun and pope and Father Time and Mother Earth (wife's tummy had a picture of Earth on it).