Happy Halloween!!

In the Des Moines area we have Beggar's Night, which we learned was put into place to keep kids safe when Halloween started having a lot of vandalism years back in the area, so we dressed up the boys and headed out for a fun filled day!  We started by hitting up the Pumpkin Parade in Valley Junction.  Finnean wasn't quite sure what to do, he thought as soon as you got a piece of candy you were supposed to eat it!  Hutchinson just relaxed and enjoyed the ride and the view of all the people dressed up as he was "perched" on Michael's arm.  Then we hit up the Murphy's and the Darrington's for a little trick or treat action.  We finally ate some actual food before "Trunk or Treating" with the Blanchard's at a local church.  It was a sunny day but the wind kept it chilly.   It really felt like fall, like it should on Halloween.  As you can see Finnean was a fire man.  He picked it out himself and thought he looked pretty cool!  As soon as he put it on, he said-"I want to look in the mirror!'  He had the biggest smile when he checked himself out!  Little Hutchinson was dressed as the sweetest little owlet!!  Kelcee got him the little hat and I made the little feather onesie!  A lot of cutting and a whole tub of fabric glue later...he had the sweetest costume.  I found the little booties at the Gap and of course he needed little tights for the skinny owl legs!  I okay'd the tights with Michael and he said only for a costume can I put our children in tights.  I agreed that is probably a pretty good policy!  The way the feathers got ruffled from all of his snuggling and carseat riding really made him look like a baby owl.  Our sassy fireman (I say sassy because lack of sleep and a need for sugar-make an interesting combination) and little owl were so fun to be with today.