Halloween Festivities 2012

This Halloween season was full of lots of fun for our family!

First off, I took the kids to the Houston Zoo Boo a few weeks ago with a bunch of friends.
Lawson always loves the zoo but the Zoo Boo is especially fun because you get to dress up and then participate in a bunch of Halloween activities and pick out a pumpkin to decorate.

The only bad thing about it was it being so dang hot!
I never thought I would sweat to death by going to the zoo in October but it was pretty miserable.
Last year when we went it was freezing and raining.
So maybe next year it'll be just perfect since we've experienced the two extremes in past years!

Lawson and a bunch of his friends!

One of the few pictures of Lawson holding still...
He loved the pumpkin patch!

His favorite...the elephants!

It was too cute watching how excited he got over them.

This is how he stood just admiring them for several minutes!

He also got really excited about the lions!

We were lucky enough to catch to feeding time so we got a pretty good close up look at them!

And this is how Raleigh spent the majority her first trip to the zoo...
It was way to hot to keep her little Tiger outfit on.
So then she became a little ice cream cone!

The next Halloween festivity was our annual Ward chili cook off and Trunk or Treat!
We had a great night of way too much chili eating, a fun cake walk, bean bag tosses, all our friends and of course lots of candy!
It didn't take Lawson very long to figure out the whole "go up to someone and hold up your bucket and they'll fill it full of candy" trick.
He loved it!

Here's our little Lighning McQueen and Miss Tigeress!

 As soon as Lawson saw the Lightning McQueen costume at the store it was all over.
He was very insistent on getting it!

 

The next Halloween festivity was a Halloween party our good friends the Nordgrens had last night!

Here's a little family shot:

Mine and Travis' costumes were very last minute and very impromptu.
But we love our Denver Broncos!
(Even though these are technically Tebow jerseys...oh well)

All the little kiddos getting ready to go Trick or Treating!

Once again, it didn't take Lawson very long to figure the whole process out.
He got pretty fast at running door to door and getting his candy.
After every house he would run up to me holding up his bucket and yell "I got candy!" and then bolt towards the next house.
Oh, that kid...

After Trick or Treating we headed back to the house for tons of yummy food, socializing and fun games.

We're so glad we got to party with all our friends.
Plus it was fun having a child who actually got all excited and understood what Halloween was all about!
(Thanks Ashlee!)

The morning after...

Already raiding his candy bucket!

Needless to say, Mommy has already hidden the rest of the candy because this little guy was probably going to go into a sugar induced coma!

Funny, he didn't even know what candy was until the past few days.

He definitely knows what it is now!

Happy Halloween!