Halloween Traffic

*warning: LONG post. But hey, it was a LONG weekend!

I know I've said this before but Lucy is obsessed with STOP Signs. So what would she be for Halloween? An Octagon of course! (as she refers to it):
And keeping with the Traffic theme, Owen was a Traffic Signal. Casey had big hopes of making him light-up like Lite Brite. But my procrastinating sewing skills decided to keep it simple and did a little felt onesie:
For more info on how I made their costumes, check out my sewing blog here.
And now a recap of the weekend's festivities....
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We started on Thursday with a 1st Year Birthday Party for our little friend Charlie. He made a perfect Dracula:
And his mom Laura was one cute Brownie. She even wore her old school vest and it looked great!
Sherri and her girls were the Three Little Pigs. Their wolf dad was wandering around as well:Little Miss Muffet Sienna and her Spider mama, Sachia:
The cutest little Yoda I've ever seen, Weston. He did this pouty lip thing the whole time. Love it!
And Max the lobster, scoring some sweet drinks:
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On Friday we drove Downtown to Casey's work for a Halloween visit. We've been doing this for 3 years now and some of his co-workers look forward to us coming. It's kind of cute.
I put money in our parking meter and turned back to this cute sight. They were patiently waiting and making each other laugh:
Casey's office is a cool old loft-like building, with awesome windows. The kids had fun looking out on the busy streets and cars:
Posing with dad at the entrance:And in case you were wondering if Owen gained back that weight he'd lost from the stomach flu? Well, I'll let you decide:
From Casey's work we headed to my parent's house to hang out with family and cousins. As I've said a million times, Jeremy is such a good friend to his little cousins. He even let Lucy wander around in his Indian Jones costume hat:Owen "rode" a skateboard for the first time. It was funny. He pushed it along with his hand as he crawled:And we ate lunch at Chipotle!
Chipotle has a tradition on Halloween: If you dress up like a burrito, they'll give you one for free! We didn't join in but I thought this group looked great (and they didn't mind me taking their picture):
Halloween night we got the kids dressed up again and went Trick-or-Treating in my parent's neighborhood. The kids were amazing and all stood totally still and smiled for about 1 minute straight. We parents couldn't believe it and just kept snapping pictures. From left to right: Ava the butterfly, Indiana Jeremy, baby Delilah as a mummy, Chloe the Super Martian Robot Girl (from Yo Gabba Gabba), and Owen and Lucy:
Ava and Lucy went about the same speed from house to house. They both got the concept. And contrary to only wanting to eat candy wrappers last year, Lucy wanted to eat each piece of candy the moment she received it.
This lady was cuckoo. Her house was decked out in Christmas decor and she made the kids sing her a Christmas carol before giving them candy:
The men stayed home and "manned" the door. I think Eric ate a piece of each candy variety as they sat there:
And to finish off the already sugared night, Lucy got just what she wanted....a big yellow frosted cupcake:
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Saturday evening we went to our ward Trunk or Treat. Lucy had too much fun running around with her cute friends Grace and Chloe:Owen wasn't in the best of moods but he looked cute all the same:
I've never seen such a great turnout for a ward party, ever. The bait? In-N-Out! Someone in the ward treated us all and paid for the In-N-Out truck to come and serve us dinner. Brilliant! The only funny thing about the truck vs. the restaurant: you don't get french fries. You get a bag of potato chips. And the drinks are all poured for you. Shockingly, there was no rootbeer! Come on, these are Mormons! We loved it all! (well, I did. Not sure about Owen)The whole week had been super warm weather but that night it decided to rain. The kids thought it was great to play with umbrellas:Lucy's friend Owen is very into the Mary Poppins movie right now so he dressed up like a chimney sweep. He looked perfect. I love these kids together:
Our friends the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Ragozzines, with little Alice. Great costume ensemble!
Probably my favorite costume of the night was Max in his Ghostbusters costume. He even had the pack on his back. And an awesome pose to go along. His sister Mia looked too cute too in her Wonder Woman outfit:Two black cats, Linet and sweet Paige:
Some people went all out with their trunks. I was very impressed. Our friends Lyndsey and Brandon and Melanie and Jeff. They were pumpkined out:
And this set-up was ridiculous. There was a huge pirate ship at the end of the parking lot. The kids entered, got plastic swords, and fought the pirates on-deck for the pirate gold:
It was pretty funny and Lucy seemed to enjoy it.

After Trunk-or-Treat we were total party animals and drove over to the West Side for a party with some of friends from the single's ward. These are friends from our early days in the ward that we haven't seen in a very long time. It was great to catch up with everyone. Lucy entertained herself by exploring the house:
And since they had mini cupcakes, she ate about 3:
Ah. I'm done!

We had a really fun weekend. Holidays are always more entertaining with kids. And the excitement will only build as they get older and understand it even better.
We hope you all had a fun few days too!