Boo to You!

We had a great Halloween this year! The girls really had a blast dressing up, going to the Fall Festival at church, but their favorite was handing out candy to kids going through our neighborhood. We started the day off by going out to breakfast, then heading home to paint pumpkins. Audrey wanted no help at all with her painting and completely covered herself in it! Ella's pumpkins were all painted perfectly as rainbows--she's such a girly girl!

Rainbow pumpkins of course!
Audrey was little Miss Independent with this project!

Sweet but oh so messy~

We headed to our church's Fall Festival and let the girls play games, eat candy, jump in the bounce houses, eat more candy, eat popcorn...you get the picture. I think they both ate their way through the church! By the time we finished there, we swung by to see Garrett and then headed home to hand out some candy and trick or treat at a few neighbor's houses.

Our sweet fairy princess!

Don't you love all the tulle!

Sweet sisters

Ready to buzz right out for more candy!

Family shot from Fall Festival!

Playing in the ball pit!

Pin the tail on the donkey!

Ella LOVED being in charge of the candy bowl and could not wait for kids to come up to our door. At one point, she started crying because she couldn't see any kids coming and she told me "I just really want to give out candy." She would scream down the street "Please come get our candy, kids! " Audrey was only interested in eating more candy herself and when she tried to dip her hand in the candy bowl, Ella scolded her and said "Audrey, this candy it not for us. It is for kids that don't have their own candy."--We're really working on teaching about a servant's heart around here. :)

Ready for the trick or treaters!

We headed to a few houses on our street, but Ella kept her eye on our house and ended up running back home when she saw a group of kids coming up to our door--she didn't want to miss out on passing it out! By 9:00 we decided to turn off the front porch light and brought the kids in for a snack of pretzels to try to neutralize all the candy they had eaten! Being way past bedtime at this point, Audrey's meltdown started up and screams of "candy bar, candy bar, cannndyyyy barrrrr" lasted for the next hour. John and I couldn't help but just laugh!
The meltdown begins!

We had so much fun and Ella has already started talking about what she wants to be next year -a bumble bee!