Trunk-or-Treat

Emily has been talking about being Cinderella for Halloween since getting a Cinderella dress from Santa for Christmas last year. We've been counting down the days until Halloween for the past month.


Around the same time we made the chain, she was talking with me about her Halloween plans as I was putting on my make-up. Her face lit up as she looked at me hopefully and asked if she could wear real make-up with her costume on Halloween. I told her that she could. She has looked forward to it ever since. She woke up on the morning of the trunk-or-treat and said excitedly to me and Chad, "Today's the day I get to wear real make-up!". Here's Cinderella getting ready at the royal beauty salon. :-)



Our ward had a trunk-or-treat last night. They had a chili/ "chowda" cook-off and games for the kids followed by the trunk-or-treat. We had a great time! We had a busy day. We were over scheduled our day and going busily from one activity to the next. We didn't get a chance to have the traditional "pre-party" photo shoot of the kids at home. I tried to get a few at the church, but the kids were more interested in all the excitement around them. I still managed to catch a few cute ones.




Little Miss Annie LOVES Emily's tutu! She puts it on every chance she gets and twirls around in it. She loves to dance! We decided to have her be a ballerina for Halloween this year. She was so excited! She liked wearing her tutu and was excited to have her very own pair of ballet slippers. She looks so PRETTY in pink!







We brought aprons for the girls to wear while they ate their chili. Too bad they were both so distracted that neither of them ate any. They promptly found a cake walk game to play and won some cupcakes. (We took them home and saved them for later.)

The Cake Walk

The Fishing Pond

This was Emily's favorite game.
She was so proud of herself for winning these bracelets.

Chad is currently serving in the Young Men's presidency. The young men and young women were in charge of the games. Chad made the boards for the bean bag toss. The kids seemed to really like it!

We had some friends join us for the trunk-or-treat, so Chad handed out the treats while I walked around with the kids and our friends. I ended up having to hold Annie most of the time so I didn't get many pictures of them actually trick-or-treating. She must have been starving because she kept trying to grab all the candy from her bucket. She kept trying to eat the candy she received, wrapper and all! Luckily, I caught on fast and helped her out! :-) There's nothing like candy for dinner. Yum!

Some of our friends decided to rent a cotton candy machine and hand out cotton candy for their treat. Emily was VERY excited about this and could hardly wait to get one of her own! (Side note: Their daughter's birthday is on Halloween and they used it at her party as well. Emily went to her party and already received a bag of cotton candy earlier that afternoon! I guess you can't have too much of a good thing. Ha!)

Annie enjoyed her cotton candy too!

Emily with her Sunbeam teacher, Sister Milne

Annie, Chad and Emily

Family Photos

Ready to Go Home

The Loot

This was Emily's first real experience with exploring the "loot" after trick-or-treating. She initiated it and Annie joined right in, eating the candy with the wrappers still on!

Happy Halloween!