Halloween

This year Halloween was so much fun! Between carving pumpkins, dressing up, and trick or treating, we had a great time! Alli got to wear her costume a few times for my mom's school party, the city trick-or-treat, and then going around our neighborhood. She didn't really get into the pumpkin carving, but Ryan and I had a good time. She did like going around getting candy. She would look in her purse in amazement at the loot she had and I think she was really wondering why she was able to keep so much candy at one time! The first few houses she didn't really get it, but after that she was ready to go and was so cute saying trick treat. Ryan and I debated if we should dress up or not, but we figured we had the costumes and why not after all, life can't be serious all the time-ya gotta let down at times so our Hippie costumes were fitting :) Earlier in the day (since it was nice weather) Ryan finished filling our flower bed/retaining wall that we built this summer so I could finish planting my bulbs. It looks so nice! He did such a good job-7 wheelbarrows full of dirt that he hauled for me yesterday! Alli was so pooped from all the fun during the day between the working outside (she had to help Ryan), the family party, the city trick-or-treat, and going around our neighborhood that by the time we headed over to a friends' house for a party she crashed on the way over and slept through the entire thing (and there were quite a few people and kids so it wasn't quiet), slept all the way home and all night-so probably about 13 hours!





Here Alli is post trick-or-treating while we hurried to light the pumpkins before too many people had come by. She loved the fact that there was a whole bowl of candy just sitting there and in this pic I think she is getting her share of our candy before we started handing it out.


I also had to take a pic of the food at my mom's Halloween party because it was soo good and there was so much of it. Seriously we had apples and caramel dip, veggies and dip, and delicious fresh tacos with fresh tortillas and all the fixins, and these cupcakes we've had every Halloween since I was little-thanks Mom!
Well also this week we had our first snowfall of the year. At first Alli really didn't know what it was, but after I caught some in my hand she thought it was pretty cool. At first she called it nos, the s before the n was hard, but now she can say ssssno. so cute! It was right when she woke up so we just bundled her up and took her out (if you are wondering about the pjs in the pic).



and just cause I saw this picture and thought it was cute-here ya go: