Happy late Halloween

I'm a little late, but better late than never.

Want to see the cutest little Indian to ever go trick-or-treating? I'll show you.

Alright, fine, you have twisted my arm. I'll show you a few more of my sweet feathered girl.

I can't stand it. She's just too dang cute. 

And she loved Halloween and all the candy collecting that came along with it.

Except when a man (or so I think it was a man) dressed in a giant gumby costume and perched himself on the porch waiting for trick-or-treaters. Chey wouldn't even walk up to the house. She eyed him until he was no longer in view.

With Grandma's help, we strolled around the neighborhood for a little while knocking on doors until we all got tired. It took her four houses until she jumped on the energetic "trick or treat!" bandwagon. As soon as she started to realize that greeting people with this meant she got candy, she was all for it. 

Of course it had to be inspected to make sure it was the good stuff first.

We headed home after a while to hand out candy of our own. Chey was our window watcher. She let us know when anyone was on their way to our door.

This is her alerting Grandma of our arriving trick-or-treaters.

This year, we got "trick or treat!" and "thank you!" down. Next year, I'll teach her the dump and sort our candy game. For now, we play the out of site/out of mind so we get one piece a day if we're good game instead.

If you saw how much energy my girl had from her one blue lollipop, you'd understand why we limit the candy intake. Although, I can't say that hiding candy has done anything to deter me from sneaking a few. I figure if I only snack on the ones that she can't have, its not really stealing… right?

Happy late halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!

From one crazy cute chicken who absolutely LOVES Halloween

Trick or treat!! Cluck cluck cluck!

Come on Skipper. We've got candy to get.

Dadd-oo we sure missed you today. You're boo-tiful little girl would go trick or treating every day if we let her. We have lots of candy we would share with you… but it probably won't last that long. Love you Giant.

What a day

Not the best one in the books but thankfully my parents are here to make today better.

After an hour of wanting to throw my phone across East Bay Street into oncoming traffic because my phone was not allowing my husband's calls to come through, I thankfully still have a "working" phone. I say thankfully because it means we can try the phone call again tomorrow if he gets the time. Fingers crossed so tightly. Seeing him calling and not being able to speak to him made me almost jump out of my own skin. My parents can attest. Thank God that they were here to help me with Cheyanne. I tried to keep it together in front of her, but my blood was boiling inside. I think boiling is actually putting it mildly.

Anyways, after trying for an hour to answer his calls, we called it a day on touring downtown, and in effort to save my nerves, we headed home to internet to catch him on Skype. Unfortunately, it was too late. I'm really hoping tomorrow we have better luck. Say a little prayer for my nerves.

Even though that little fiasco altered our plans, we still enjoyed the day together. We did a little halloween shopping, home decorating with all the fall wedding beauties my parents unloaded brought down, cooking AND baking, and reorganizing the kitchen. Gotta love my mom- the Queen of Organizing.

Wanna see all we've done?

Improvement right?!

And Chey of course helped us relocate and organize the tupperware cabinet.

and unorganize

and then reorganize

In fun news…

Guess who had her first set of pigtails in today!!!! 13.5 long months and we finally have enough hair for pigtails- and she hated every minute of them being put in thus the little lopsidedness. Still, doesn't she look ridiculously cute with them?!

Her expressions kill me.

Ok, so tomorrow will be a better day and hopefully I'll be a much better/happier hostess. Its gotta be better, right? Its Halloween! We're ready to have some fun (and a whole lot of trick or treaters.

Here's a sneak peak at Little Miss' costume. Can you guess what she's going to be? I'll give you a hint- she's going to be one cute little fluff ball.