Halloween

Halloween...oh if Chad and I had been thinking we would have dressed up as zookeepers!  Rylee was our elephant, Sawyer our zebra and Cassidy our lovely ladybug.  We had been fighting colds so skipped the down town trick-or-treat in lieu of naps this year and hoped for a break in the weather during the Halloween party that night.  We were rewarded and had a great adventure that ended all too soon

 The wild animals were not very cooperative to stand still for photos...

Ahhh, sweet containment!

The trick-or-treating crew; Maddie, Sawyer, Claire, Jolee, Cassidy, Rylee, Daniel

So on about the 4th house, our ladybug decided to cut through the yard to catch her friends and met a very mean branch that not only tripped her up but banged her up.  Thankfully she missed the edge of the sidewalk by about 2 inches that I thought for sure was sending us to the ER as I scooped her up and ran for ice.  Poor lil' ladybug was very sad and tearfully asked "Am I all done trick-or-treating?"  And through the swelling and blood I said, I think so baby.  After some clean-up, ice and chocolate cake she was ok, but this was the next morning... 

I did manage to arrange for a few co-workers to be open for trick-or-treaters the next night and the whole crew got dressed up again and off we went.  I think Cass got more candy than if she'd stayed out on Halloween as every house we went to seemed determined to give us all the candy they had left...UGH!
This was the first year Cassidy got to do pumpkins and was totally into it, especially the spooky faces.  Unfortunately, because of the eye you can tell that Mom was a little late and we actually carved the day after Halloween, but hey like we say, better late than never!

Definitely a year to remember!