sneak peek trick or treat

It's officially my favorite time of year!

Yesterday we took the kids out to take photos of them in their halloween costumes.

I like to take photos of their costumes before the actual day so that when Halloween comes around it's all about the trick or treating and a few snap shots of all the action!  :)

This year we are handing out popsicles again, it seemed to be a big hit last year so we're doing it again!

Back to the costumes.

Oliver is (still) obsessed with anything Lightning McQueen so of course that's who he wanted to be for Halloween.

I'd rather not attempt to make a McQueen costume so I bought one.

Nidas then wanted to be Fin McMissile with bombs.

The Fin costume wasn't too hard to find 

(I bought both boys costumes on ebay for super cheap!)

but the bombs .. BAGH!

I thought about water balloons, it made sense, so we bought some water balloons and Leonidas used those as bombs, it was a hit .. you'll see!

I let Leonidas choose Aveline's costume since she's just a hair too young to choose for herself and guess what he chose for her .. a flag .. he wanted her to be a racing flag, to match both of the boys and their car costumes. not cool.  

oh well, Nidas chose and he was super excited when I finished making A's costume.

I made Aveline's costume out of the table runner that we used for Oliver's birthday party a few weeks ago.  :)

Jared drove us out to Medina where he knew of the perfect location to snap a few photos of the kids.  :)

The photos aren't the greatest quality and I don't edit photos, I just capture memories .. how cheesy does that sound!  haha!

As usual, when the camera comes out, at least one kid isn't having it and all of the kids had major cases of the "jumpies" as Aveline says.  Everyone was jumping around, having fun.

Leonidas in his Fin costume.

seriously, he is the sweetest!

Oliver in his McQueen costume.  :)

This girl .. she was not in the mood for photos!

seriously, how pitiful is that face!

:)  finally a smile!

This is where the "jumpies" start .. and the predicted tears from Oliver.

Nidas saw this last night and said "Whoa, look at our baby's hair!"

feeling a little rotten with her tongue out!

Now Oliver has the "jumpies" too!

Aveline was "finning" (spinning) and she's actually pretty graceful, she hardly ever falls down.

We brought out the bombs .. do you see the splash?

Geronimo! 

Nidas about ready to nail Jared with a bomb!

ker-splat!

Oliver was having way too much fun.  We realized this was their first water ballon experience (we think)!

I asked Nidas to take a few photos of Jared and I after the kids were done.

Usually Nidas does an okay job .. not this time.  

He was all over the place, cutting our faces and legs off.

The exposure is different in every single photo, still not sure how he managed that! 

They're cute though because Nidas took them!  :)

 

I have massive root growth now, which is a good thing.  I'm letting my natural color grow out ...
and I can't stop styling my hair like an elderly lady, I just love it .. :)

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed.  :)