Happy Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!  What a week!! With meetings and church functions and trick or treating, this week has flown by. (Yea!!!) Bellah and I have had a blast with this holiday!  This picture is from Bellah trying on her Halloween outfit right before the Fall Festival at church. (They didn't do a trunk or treat this year but they let the kids dress up at least - I know- Lame-o!!)

Bellah loved going around in her outfit.  In case you couldn't tell, she was little red riding hood. She and mommy were twinners this year! (Check out the last picture for my outfit.) She did the cake walk and came back with some little chocolate bar. She found her little friend Ian and ran laps around the satellite dish on the sidewalk - it was so stinkin' hilarious!!

There was some music at the Fall Festival at church and Bellah was a dancin' fool!!  We had some square dancers show up from Sun City (You know, the neighborhood that hates kids ;) ) and Bellah was hooked - I could not get her to leave.  It was 8pm and she was running around dancing and trying to get me to square dance with her too!!  I eventually got her to leave, but it was definitely pulling teeth!  I'm glad that she had fun - she loves going to church!

So, on Friday, Bellah's school had a Halloween Party, which really was come and see how much sugar your kids can eat before getting sick!  I mean seriously, do you really need to have parents of 2-year-olds sign up for, cookies and cupcakes and any other sugary substance you can get your hands on? Really - REALLY!!  But, I guess it's Halloween - I'll let her get high on candy once a year, I guess... :(

The lady in the orange UT shirt is her teacher Miss Heather .  I had woken Bellah up from her nap when I got there so she was a little clingy and unhappy at first, but then she saw the sugar cookies and got VERY excited! lol .... She has my sweet tooth. :o)  

So, Bellah and I decided to go trick or treating with some friends in the ward.  This little boy is Ethan (I know! Great name!) and he LOVES Bellah and she LOVES him too!  She is always talking about Ethan and Savannah (his little sister).  Ethan is a few months older than Bellah (His b-day is March) but they have a great time.  Kinda like Camden and Gage - a little wacky and get really hyper together - pretty crazy! :o) They are a trip!!

So, of course, in Halloween spirit, Zeta dressed up too.  And, how appropriate - a Devil Dog..... crazy little rat! :o)  j/k Zeta. ;o)

Since I hardly ever (well, never really) take Zeta for walks, I couldn't find her collar or leash, so after a few times of her trying to run and get candy from strangers too and running into garages, I had to ground her.  Into the stroller, she loved it - I know she did. :o)

Here's Bellah, after a house or two - starting to get the process down.  At first she wanted to sit in the stroller, but after the first house she was allllll about walking!! Too funny!!!

Here she is doing her thing - at first we did a few houses without porch lights on, but from what I understand, if your porch light is off - you don' t want trick or treaters.  But Bellah wanted to see. :o)

It was sooooo much fun watching Bellah start to understand what was going on.  We were with Ethan and Savannah and Jenny (the older daughter) was walking around Savannah and Sandra and I were kinda hanging back and watching and talking.  It was so cute to watch Bellah look and Ethan and Savannah going up to the door and getting candy in their bags and understand that she could get candy just by going up to doors too.

So there's Ethan and Bellah again.  Ethan was Elmo. :o)  Everyone loved Bellah's outfits - soooo cute and they loved Zeta's too.  :o)

Candy! Candy, candy, candy, candy, candy, candy, candy!!!!  A very happy Bellah with a sack full of candy.  At one point it was getting so heavy she kept dragging it!  So, we had to unload a little so that she could keep going! hahahahaha!!  We stayed out for an hour and a half!  The last 15 minutes were Bellah in the stoller because she was too exhausted to walk!  I don't think she's ever walked that much in her life!  It was awesome!!

And to continue the tradition of the coolest accountant -  we were allowed to dress up for work today.  In case you don't live in Texas, there's one thing you have to understand - Texans are crazy for football.   I mean, seriously crazy!  They go nuts over high school football- seriously!! They are also crazy about college football.  So, for those "too cool" to dress up, they wore their team shirts instead of a costume.  And Ginger, our receptionist, felt we might need a little intervention, so she wore a referee costume. lol! Soo funny!! :o)  And, of course, I was little red riding hood too.  Bellah and I were twinners! :o)   I didn't get a picture of us together (I know, I know) but Arien did, so I'm gonna harass her for the pix and I'll post it when I get it.

So, we had a really great Halloween week and we are so excited that October is over! One more month closer to daddy coming home! Daddy can take Bellah next year while mommy holds down the fort. :o)  We hope you guys had a great Halloween and we are soooo excited for this holiday season to come and go.  We have so much to do and so many people to see - it's going to be awesome!!! :o)  Take care and stay tuned for more posts - I love doing this! 

Love you!

JB & B