Halloween 2016

First of the holidays are past, I can’t believe it!  Every year it feels as if it takes forever for Halloween to arrive, but then once it does it feels like Thanksgiving and Christmas that follow just zoom on by.  This Halloween was SO special to us this year.  Finally, our FIRST as a family!!  Last year Norah and I had to celebrate alone, but we made the best of it!  She sure made the cutest little mermaid anyone ever has seen!

This year we didn’t have a lot of money to spend on costumes, which definitely made choosing a bit more tricky.  We finally settled on a Harry Potter theme!  Ties from Amazon $10, and the cutest knitted Dobby hat/ears from Etsy and WaLa!  We had everything else to complete our getups.  My husband isn’t the most festive man you’ll find, but he definitely doesn’t want to be left out so he participated!  Even let me draw on Harry’s lightning bolt.  He sure made one handsome Harry.  As for myself, I LOVE Halloween.  I love dressing up, and since we became a family of three it’s really just become so much better.  I love figuring out each year our “family theme”, and I’ll be a little sad when Norah doesn’t want to match us anymore!  Luckily we have a few more years to go I think.

First we celebrated with her school fall carnival!  Dad had his night school, so it was just Norah and I.  She loved playing the games each room had set up, and LOVED her first sucker.

We of course had to paint our pumpkins this year.  I love that she’s old enough to do this.  She really was good with it, which leads me to believe she definitely has painted before at school!  She was patient and so delicate with it.

We went to Sand Springs downtown scare on the square and loved watching the costume contest.  Gave us great ideas for next year.  We got so many compliments and everyone loved our little “Dobby”.

Dobby loves suckers!

Harry freed Dobby!

Finally came Halloween night!  We didn’t dress up for that, and we thought no one would get Norah’s costume if we weren’t dressed up, so she wore her dress up princess clothes for trick or treating.  She made the cutest purple princess!

Trick or treat??

Needed a rest!

Treating at susnet

We’re so thankful to be celebrating this all together this year.  No long flights and short weekends.  We are loving the holiday season thus far!  Bring on Thanksgiving!!

Happy Halloween!  Love ALL the McVays!