Halloween!

We started our Halloween celebration a week early this year.  On Friday night, the weekend before Halloween, we went over to the Nelson's house and had our second annual "Kids in Costumes Get Together" :).  See here for pictures from last year!  We got together with the Nelsons, Hofferts, and Williams' and ate dinner, played, and dressed up our kids in their costumes to take some pictures.  Let me just say, this year was a bit more challenging trying to get all the kids to sit still in one spot and take a group picture!  Kyler didn't want to be put in one spot and once we got him to stay there, someone else decided to run away.  Oh well, I guess that's what you get with three 1 year olds and a 2 year old. :)  We all joked about the fact that it won't get any easier for next year because the number of kids will have doubled!  Here are some pictures from our gathering!

I'm not sure if I like this thing on my head...

Kyler the dragon eating a cracker :)

Our best group photo :)

All four of our cute kids! :)

The above pictures were taken by Emily Hoffert!  She did such a great job getting some picts of everyone!

 Our family!

Then on Halloween day, we went to church in the morning, came home and ate lunch and then got Kyler dressed in his costume.  This is the best picture I got of him on the steps with the pumpkins, again, he didn't want to be told where to sit... :)

Kyler and the pumpkins

We then took Kyler a few places before Trick-or-Treating started.  We drove over to visit Erik's parent's at their house and saw them as well as Aunt Leah.  Then we came home and took an afternoon nap.  After Kyler's nap, we took him out again to go and see Erik's Grandpa at his house and my Grandma at the Lutheran home.

Erik, Kyler, and Great-Grandpa Blanchard

Ashley, Kyler, and Great-Grandma Arthur

By this time, Trick-or-Treating had started, so we came home to eat dinner and hand out candy.  After dinner, we went down to our neighbor's house to trick-or-treat, then came home and went a couple more places.  We stopped at Cindy and Lauren's house, David's apartment, and lastly my parent's house.  My parent's weren't home, but Uncle Ben was!  

Kyler and Uncle Ben!

We had a fun night, Kyler got a few pieces of candy, and got to see some important people all dressed up.  I'm sure next year he will be ready to do more of the "door-to-door" trick-or-treating and will actually understand that he gets candy when he goes to everyone's house. :)