Halloween Hyjinx!

I don't know about you, but Halloween is not my favorite holiday. (I can hear my mom gasping now. It is one of her favorites.) I really would like to be cool enough to come up with really great costumes, but I'm not. And, I've said for years that I bet Halloween is more fun with kids. Well, I'll let you know!

Our Halloween festivities started a couple of weeks ago at our 4th annual Pumpkin Walk with Ryan, Marcela and the girls. Well, this year Marcela was feeling a little under the weather so it was just Ryan and the girls. The line for the pumpkin walk was SUPER long so that's all we got to do this year, but it was still a great time!

Our first family scrunch picture. Awww...

Then I decided to have a little fun and see what the world looked like through Reyes' eyes. I taught her how to use my camera, and firmly strapped it to her hand, and let her have fun. This is what she got.

That's Tyler strapped to Brent's tummy.

She actually is really good at getting people framed in the picture. Much better, in fact, than most of the people Ryan had take his picture on his mission in Spain. His head was always cut off. It was funny!

After this pumpkin, she got a little bored of documenting everything so the camera came back to me.

Since this was our fourth year, I decided we didn't need as many pictures as we have had. So, this is the only one I took and the reason I took it was because Cami was SO EXCITED to see an R2D2 pumpkin. It was just plain old adorable! (She does quite the impersonation of  R2D2. If you get the chance, you really must see it!)

We are so glad this is a tradition! And we're looking forward to Tyler being a bit more into it next year!

And now to Halloween week...

Even before Tyler was born, we began thinking about what we should dress him up as this year. There were many ideas passed around ... admittedly mostly Star Wars ... when I found the absolutely perfect outfit!

But first, a couple of other cute pictures from this week...

Can you see his teeth?

Golly, I love that little cheese! He is such a flirty thing now-a-days! I love it!

We went to Tyler's first Trunk or Treat. And I have a picture from that night. It shows Tyler asleep on Brent where the only thing visible is the top of his helmet, but I took it with my phone and the computer doesn't seem to like it. If you'd like me to text it to you, let me know. :)

And, now for the perfect Halloween costume for a 2 month old ... Darth Vader! **Cue the Darth Vader theme now.**

We tried to explain to Tyler who Darth Vader is, since he can't quite see the tv yet so has not seen Star Wars. The first picture wasn't quite right.

No, Ty, see Darth Vader is actually the bad guy, so you need to not look so happy to be Darth Vader.

One should not put one's light saber in one's nose!

Nope, still too happy.

Umm...nope.

Closer but you just look like you're trying to make a duck face.

There you go! Serious with just a touch of cockiness!

I still can hardly look at these pictures without giggling quietly to myself! He was the cutest Darth Vader ever!

Now to the planning for next year. I'm told it's going to be a family affair. Perhaps Halloween is more fun with kids!