Halloween 2014

Somehow, this past October has been much busier than previous years.  Sadly, we weren't able to squeeze in our annual trip to Gentry Farms' pumpkin patch.  We only saw the Cheekwood scarecrows once.  And Justin's two weekends off were jam-packed with activities and parties that nothing else fall-related could fit!

We did manage to make our annual trip to Oktoberfest, complete with yet another year of a child (begrudgingly) wearing lederhosen!

As far as Halloween goes, when we asked Lissie a month or so ago what she wanted to be, she immediately responded with an enthusiastic "PIZZA!"  Justin and I half-heartedly tried to talk her into something that could be store-bought, but after doing a Google image search on homemade pizza costumes, Justin was more than willing to give it his best shot.  All I had to do was supply the teacher discount card to Jo-Ann, haha.

I'll admit that I was a bit worried that this would be a big fail.  That it wouldn't look up to par.  Or that, with Justin's crazy schedule, he wouldn't finish what he started.

I should never have doubted, though.  Because when given a challenge, he doesn't give up.  And he ended up going above and beyond and creating the best looking pizza costumes ever!

Since Lissie was going to get a chance to wear her costume at her school Halloween party, we decided to even up the playing field and take Xavier to Goblins in the Garden at Cheekwood so he could enjoy some solo Halloween fun, as well.

It was X's first time trick-or-treating, and Cheekwood always does a great job keeping the children entertained with art projects and a stroll through the gardens with stops along the way to get candy.  Xavier had a great time showing off his costume and loved being a ham for all the admiring passersby.

Lissie, too, enjoyed trick-or-treating around the church at her school and had a blast at her class Halloween party.

But, the best fun was saved for Halloween day itself.  We started off with trick-or-treating around the Y so they could show their new friends their costumes and, really, to just whet their appetites for more - haha.  After nap time, we made our way to our friend's annual Halloween party and trick-or-treating.

Just some pizzas eating pizza.

The costumes were a huge hit everywhere we went.  Major props to daddy for making their costumes!  Lissie's already requested something special for next year.  We'll just have to wait and see....