Halloween!

Let me first say,

I have been feeling preeeettty miserable,

baby #3 is definitely making it's teeny tiny little appearance known.

No doubt about it, I feel pregnant.

 

Thankfully after making a call to my Doctor,

he prescribed me Zofran,

which helps with nausea.

It has helped a lot,

I could literally tell if I was 15-20 min late taking the next dose!

 

So with all of this morning sickness,

anything that was coming up on our calendar had me a little nervous

about how I was going to feel.

 

Thankfully I felt pretty good for Halloween festivities!

which was actually moved to November 1st this year due to a stormy forecast on the 31st.

 

However I must say,

it's a pretty cruel thing to not be able to stomach anything sweet or chocolate this pregnancy, ESPECIALLY around Halloween! Whatever! ;)

(Literally ate a handful of m&ms one day,

felt nauseous for an hour or so, then they all came back up, blah!)

 

Anyway,

on to the cute Halloween pictures!

 

Rhett was very intrigued with his cousin Avery's face paint! 

 

 

Monkey man would be my husband.

The same man who walked into the house like this, while I had my back to him getting the boys costumes and clothes together...freaked me out!!

 

He ran by Kroger on the way home, and said it was on super sale,

he is crazy!

 

 

 I mean, honestly we couldn't take him seriously the entire night.

Ha!

 

 

The sweet Anderson girls!

 

 Cute Ely and his sweet Momma!

Here's the Marshall crew, plus Cy's adorable girlfriend Lucy!

They dressed as each other for Halloween!
They were hilarious, and um, cutest couple ever!

The Rhetter man got a little tired, we made it our usual route,
which isn't very long yet. I have a feeling it will get longer and longer the bigger the boys get. ;)

So much fun,
and the boys ate way too much candy.
...and also way too interested in candy to take another picture. :)

...and baby in my belly still doesn't like chocolate, which is seriously just WRONG!!!
We're going to have a talk about this when baby arrives. :)


Love making these memories,
hope everyone had a great Halloween this year!



Halloween Fun!

First just for fun, here's our fall mantle & porch this year!

This year for Halloween, I had planned on Case being a baseball player (since, hello, we already had the outfit)

and for Rhett go be a fireman since we still had Case's costume from when he was 2. 

That changed though, when one day I asked Case if he would like to be a baseball player, 

and he shot back with, 

"No, Mom! I am gonna be a dragon and Rhett is going to be a Knight!" 

(I mean Duh Mom!)

My mind raced back to when my nephews were little and were a dinosaur and dragon one year.

Lucky for me, Amy had saved them, so after a quick search on the internet for a knight's costume, 

Case was going to have his idea come true. 

Halloween was on a Wednesday this year, so the day before Case's preschool had a Fall Party

where all the kiddos dressed up. 

It started out with a little parade, then the kids sang their Halloween songs they had learned. 

Then back to their classroom for snacks and a little Halloween craft. 

Even Mommom and Grand-Dad joined in on the fun! 

Amy's dragon and dinosaur costumes she had saved both fit, 

so Case decided he wanted to be a dinosaur for school and a dragon for Halloween. 

So much fun! 

...

The 31st's forecast wasn't looking so great for trick or treating. 

I believe it even called for possible snow. 

I had remembered seeing that our local library branches were all throwing a Halloween party, 

so we asked Kelly & Sydney if they'd like to go with us to one of the parties. 

I figure in case we weren't able to go trick or treating, we would at least have some sort of fun activity to do on the actual day. 

So I helped Case put on his dragon costume, and then went to help Rhett put on his knight costume...

The kid had a fit. 

I mean a flat out, fit.

He did NOT want to wear that costume.

I have no idea why either! It's just a shirt!

He was raking at it, screaming, crying, pulling it off every time I tried to put the shirt over his head!

Besides the fact it was slightly scratchy material, I was cracking up at his resistance! 

It was so strange!

After about a five minute fight, he finally calmed down with teary eyes. 

Silly boy!

Sydney was such a cute little owl!

The library had story time, a parade and then even provided a snack! 

So cute, we had a lot of fun! 

Wouldn't you know I don't have a good picture of them, 

with Case's dragon head actually on his head, next to his knight?

Turns out I wouldn't have a chance to get that picture later that evening either. 

Since it was going to be SO cold, we opted for Case to wear the dinosaur costume again.

He could wear a ton of layers underneath it, and it was a full body costume. 

Rhett ended up being a ninja dude, another costume Amy had saved, since it would fit OVER a coat. 

He cried over that one too! Stinker! 

Avery actually wore my old costume, that had Mom had made when I was little! 

Such a sweet little trio! 

My boys adore their cousins!

Case especially adores Avery, whenever I ask him who his best friend is, he always responds with "Avery."

We met up with, and ran into lots of friends trick or treating! 

We went up and down a few blocks, before Case said. 

"I have enough candy, I ready to go home."

:)

So... Matt and I are loving this trick or treating thing while our kids are still little.

It means lots and lots of candy for Mommy & Daddy!

Trick or Treat!

Halloween snuck up on me! 

Case was little Maverick from Top Gun this year 

and little Rhetter followed in his big brother's footsteps and was a Farmer for his first Halloween!

We had lots of people come over before we headed out to the neighborhood, Amy & Avery headed over with Griffin and Cy. Kelli and her three girls came over, so I could paint Teagan's face like a cat. Kelli's sister Shauna and her daughter Zuri came over. Shauna's friend Kelli came over with her little boy Jeremy...we had a full house! Matt walked in and was a little overwhelmed seeing all of those kids running around our house! :) 

I'm so upset that I didn't get any pictures with our camera, so the iPhone shots will have to do this year! Shauna got some cute pics with her awesome camera, so hopefully I can get some of those soon! 

 

Kelli's Mama :)

Hee! He is such a cute little stinker! 

Case had SO much fun trick or treating this year, he really got the hang of it and was super excited. 

His big cousin Griffin took him around to the houses, and Case was in heaven. 

He cracked us up when he started saying "Happy Halloween!" 

instead of Trick or Treat half way through the night.

Everyone kept asking him what he was, and he always replied "I'm free!" (Three) HAA! 

Daddy and our neighbor Joe pushed the Rhetter man around, and he only lasted until around 7 or so, big man was getting sleepy (and cold) so he went home to get into warm pajamas and hit the sack early. 

Case was a trooper, and walked house to house until 8 o'clock, then we ate dinner, he got to eat three pieces of candy and slept like baby. 

We had a fun little Halloween this year, even if it did creep up on us, and was over like that!

Hoping Thanksgiving and Christmas aren't over as fast! 

Love this time of year!

Halloween!

Last Halloween Case walked around a little bit, but mostly chilled in his stroller watching his cousin Avery run up to houses over and over, he was probably pretty bored last year!

Not this year though. This year we got him a candy bucket and worked on saying "Trick or Treat!" His big cousin Griffin came over and helped him walk up to the houses and get his candy. He just went with the flow for a little while, but eventually started saying "Trick a Tree" and "Thank You!" He was such a little trooper, he carried his bucket the entire time, and that little thing was getting heavy too!

Amy, Tim, Avery and Cy met up with us a little later so he got to Trick or Treat with all of his cousins! By the end of the night Matt was pulling Avery and Case in his new wagon! They were worn out. :)

We gave Case two Fun Size M&M's out of his candy stash, which resulted in completely ignoring us while we were trying to take pictures...

Our little fireman had such a blast, and we had so much fun watching him walk around the neighborhood like a big boy this year!