Trick-Or-Treat & Party

So much for being Dora. Addison was dead set on being a cheerleader when she woke up yesterday morning! It didn't turn out to be so bad because I was able to keep her nice and warm a little easier than had she been Dora. We had a great day yesterday full of treats and fun. We met our friends the Beck's for trick-or-treating in Spirit Lake. This was the first year Addison really understood what all of this excitement was about and Beck's took us to a perfect neighborhood for it. Tons of kids, every house open to trick-or-treaters and the weather, although cool, was pretty darn good considering all of the rain we've had lately.

This is Addison and lady bug Ella.

Ella sat in the stroller while Parker, the safari guide, Evan the elephant and cheerleader Addison made mad dashes to all of the houses. Addison's trick-or-treating did come to an abrupt stop though. The kids went to a house that was completely decked out for Halloween and the people handing out candy were dressed as gorilla's. She stood on their steps, screamed and cried until I came to get her. Poor pumpkin. After that she told me her bag was full enough of candy and she was done!

Last evening, our friend's Jesse and Melissa Leiss and their little boy Talen had their annual Halloween party. It's always so fun to see the kids dressed up and Addison even had two fellow preschool friends to play with there. Melissa is a kindergarten teacher so she always has the cutest activities for the kids to do, they had to find parts of a skeleton hidden around the house this year and their favorite was breaking open the pinata.

Every year we try to get all of the kids together for a picture which is always interesting when you have kids ranging from 5 months to 7 years old! They actually did pretty good this year.

And finally, this is why Addison absolutely loves going to Talen's house! He has a huge room above the garage and right in the middle is this swing. This is pretty much all Addison did for the 5 hours we spent there last night!

Sugar overload and sore arms from this swing are probably why my daughter is on her 3rd hour of napping right now and I cannot get her up! Wish me luck on getting this gal to bed anytime before 10pm tonight.