Halloween 2016

Our Boo Crew!

I love our new tradition of the past couple years going over to my brothers house for Halloween trick-or-treating. Our neighborhood is a bust unfortunately, it's not much of an actual neighborhood with a country-city living mix, barely any kids and on a very busy street. Thankfully my brother and his family have a huge family friendly neighborhood with kids galore running around. 

There are so many kids dressed up out on the street that I think it feels like a movie. Plus, the biggest bonus is the cousins get to run around together all costumed up! They have so much fun together. 

Two years ago Madden was the slowest kid that him and I were houses behind everyone and we even skipped some to keep up. Last year him and Stella were little buddies the entire time. And now this year, Stella and Emery stayed together while Carter and Madden led the pack. MJ really wanted to keep up with his big cousin and were literally running house to house with so much excitement. We had a hard time at the beginning slowing those two down repeatedly so we could stay somewhat close together. 

Fortunately they haven't learned how to pace themselves just yet, the first 20 minutes was practically non-stop running from house to house that they burned out quick which luckily meant it was easy to keep everyone together after that :) By time we had been out maybe 45 minutes Carter was asking Jordan to carry him and Madden was asking to go home, LOL! 

It was time for them to pass out candy to the other kids and they have an absolute blast doing it! They won't leave the doors site as they wait for kids to come and if they can't see anyone out in front then they all run out to the sidewalk to look down the street to see how close or far away the next kids are. Then they run back to the door yelling "Theirs a kid coming!". They each grab a handful of candy to throw in every kids bag.....any kids that comes to this house sure makes out well!

Once we were done Trick-or-Treating and running our sugar highs off, we stopped over to see the other grandparents and show off their costumes. 

These kids were beyond tired and wore out from Halloween! They had so much fun and we are fully stocked for a couple months in the candy department. Now we just have to hide it so we don't eat ALL.THE.CANDY!