Halloween!!

We had a pretty darned good Halloween.  Keilana was Ariel this year (she declared months ago that this would be the case and never wavered) and it was Dylan's turn in the Tigger suit.  Keilana got to go trick-or-treating in the morning during preschool, and her favorite stop was definitely the firehouse--they gave her a sticker and a frisbee, which was so much cooler than the candy she got everywhere else.  So by noon she already had a fair amount of loot.  We made a stop at the ward party for dinner, but didn't stay for the games and stuff. Halloween is also my mother-in-law's birthday, so we always head over to her house.  When we got there, Tim, Paul, Christa and Rachel were just heading out to do a round of trick-or-treating and they took our kids along for us.  I very much appreciated that, because I had already eaten too much sugar and it was very muggy last night, so my hands, feet and face were all much puffier than usual.

They got a pretty good haul and the kids all had fun together.  Taylor was a very beautiful Rapunzel (and a very tall one! man she's getting big), Clayton was Baby Jaguar, and Keith was a most adorable little scarecrow.   This was his first year trick or treating.  Later in the evening, Keith and Keilana jammed out pretty good to our Barenaked Ladies children's album.  They are both dancers! And Keith was so hopped up on sugar that he was kinda hitting the delirious point and he was so funny.  

We ended up staying at Chuck and Katy's til about 1:30 (everyone else managed to leave by 9:30 or so, but apparently we were feeling blabby).  Keilana eventually asked for a blanket and put herself to bed on the couch, but Dylan of course was going strong right up til we left.  He thinks Halloween is all about the suckers (his favorite candy, and one I rarely let him have), so he was falling asleep in the car on the way home nursing his giant Tootsie Pop.  So here's just a few highlights of the evening:

One of the things Keilana was most excited about was getting to wear Mommy's makeup.  Doesn't she look pretty? :)
Posing in her Ariel costume before we head out for the night's festivities.  She told everyone, "I got it at Target!" (If you talk to Keilana for more than 20 minutes any day, you will likely hear something about Target).
Dylan had a sucker of some kind in his mouth pretty much all night (long after the costume and shoes had been ditched).
Clayton and Keith check out some of their loot.  As Christa said, it looks like they're getting ready to make a trade.
Dylan and Keith are an interesting combo, because they are both very weird, in very different ways.
She's such a poser!  If the camera comes out, she's cheesin' !
Have you seen those Got Milk?  White Gold commercials?  You know, with the rocker who plays a guitar made of milk?  Paul put on Taylor's Rapunzel wig, and that's what we thought of right away.
Christa and I belly-to-belly.  She's due either Nov 2 or Nov 8 (they changed her due date on her) and I'm due Dec 2
Lining up the three bellies.  Amanda is due Christmas Day.  We should get a picture of Melissa and Photoshop her in! (Katy was having trouble figuring out our camera, so all the shots are in between our posed moments.  We're all making kind of funny faces in all of them!)