Halloween

Carving pumpkins

The kids were adamant that they wanted coordinated costumes for Halloween this year.  The original plan was to do Mickey and Minnie Mouse for Charlie and Anna.  They were so excited about the idea.  I went to the Disney store thinking they would have the costumes no problem.  I easily found a Minnie Mouse dress for Anna, but there were no Mickey outfits.  Turns out they only carry Mickey for 24 months and under.  After searching everywhere, there was no decent Mickey costume to be found.

Wearing Minnie Mouse

She's so beautiful!

Top Gun costumes.  Zach and I went to a Halloween/costume themed wedding.  So fun!

So we went to Plan B: we hit up Party City.  There we found Lion King costumes.  The kids were obsessed with that movie and the stuffed animals the entire fall, so they were very excited by these.  It came complete with a body outfit, lion head, and little lion gloves.  The kids looked adorable.

Charlie was so happy to see us at his parade

Love him

Charlie's school does a Halloween parade and party, so the kids wore the costumes to that.  They were the cutest in the school if I do say so myself.  

After the party we headed home for dinner and trick or treating.  We had a babysitter for the night, so she stayed in with Zoe and passed out candy.  Charlie and Anna went for a little while, but it was pretty cold out.  Again this year Anna wanted to continue long after Charlie lost interest.  We finally got Anna to agree to head home, and they both had a blast answering the door and seeing the other kids' costumes.    

Zoe loved trying to open all the candy