Halloween 2011

A couple of years ago, Alexis coined the phrase "the candiest day of the year" when referring to Halloween.  This year, Ella said it was the "best day ever."  And a few days after, Ella was sitting on the ground sorting her candy when she said out of nowhere "Sometimes life is not so hard. Cuz of the candy."  Amen, sistah!

This year Alexis dressed up as Laura Ingalls Wilder (we've been reading her books and watching some Little House on the Prairie), Ella was a princess (Belle from Beauty and the Beast), and Caleb was an adorable little lion. We met up with friends and trick-or-treated our way through some neighborhood businesses to meet up with more friends for more trick-or-treating.

We ran into some people who loved our costumes and wanted to take a photo together.  The father (off to the right) was shocked to find out Lexi was only in 2nd grade and knew who Laura Ingalls was. That's my girl! (I've loved LHotP since I was at least 7, if not younger than that).

Here are the kids at a local Chinese restaurant getting their fortune cookies!  We also stopped in a Dunkin' Donuts and got free donut holes.  Other businesses had all sorts of great candy.

After hitting the local businesses, we visited a few apartment buildings where we have friends.  Tenants who were welcoming trick-or-treaters had a paper pumpkin on their door so we knew which doors to knock on.

Then we'd all cram in the elevator and go to the next floor.

What a great night!  The kids made out like bandits.

And a little video of Ella's excitement.  While we were waiting for our friends to catch up (Ella was a super fast trick-or-treater trying to get as much candy as fast as she could), she was standing on the sidewalk looking around and spontaneously yelled, "Best! Day! Ever!"  I tried to get her to recreate it in this video, although it's not exactly the same.