Halloween 2015

     After months of planning for Halloween, it has already come and gone {tear}. You're probably wondering why I started planning for it months ago, but it's because I had to make sure everything I ordered online arrived in time. Plus I didn't want to wait until the last minute to build Connor's prop, a 1930's era biplane. Last Halloween we waited until the night before to build Connor's gondola and it wasn't as nice as we wanted for it to look, so this year we knew we didn't want to rush.

    This year Connor was an aviator flying around in a cardboard biplane, and Aaron and I were both clouds with a little sunshine. When I picked our theme, I quickly created a secret Pinterest board to collect ideas.

     I ordered Connor's bomber jacket and shirt {that he actually ended up not wearing} from Gap and his hat from Amazon. The sherpa inside it was really white compared the to sherpa on his jacket. The perfectionist in me didn't like that, so I sprayed tea on it as dye. Suprisingly it worked really well and almost matched perfectly. My friend Kelsey let me borrow her little boys infinity scarf for the final touch. For Aaron and me, I bought matching navy blue sweaters at H&M. I then cut white felt in the shape of two clouds and made a sun for me. I sewed it onto the sweater and our costumes were complete. The final part of the costume was Connor's biplane. A few weekends ago Aaron and I spent a couple days making it. It was more work than I imagined, but came out perfectly! It was definitely a team effort and made with love. {You will see the final product in a little while!}

     Enough about our costumes, and onto how we celebrated Halloween. On Thursday, Connor and I made sugar cookies after he woke up from his nap. His friend Holden came over and they decorated cookies with frosting and sprinkles. Those boys had a blast! I can't tell you whether they had more fun making a mess frosting the cookies or eating it all up. After frosting cookies, we made spider hand prints and ghost foot prints. They came out absolutely adorable! The googly eyes were the perfect finishing touch.

      On Friday Connor had Halloween Day at school. Since his costume required a huge prop to make it complete, we decided to just let him go in Halloween themed clothes. Thank to his Pappy for buying him an outfit. he had the perfect clothes to wear. 

     After Connor got out of school and took his afternoon nap, it was time to get ready for trunk or treat at Aaron's work. We got dressed and headed to our friends house to take Halloween pictures, but ended up having to drive back home because I forgot the pasta salad I signed up to take. Because of that, our pictures were super rushed and we only got a couple good ones... neither of which Connor is smiling in. :(

  Smile or no smile, how cute is he though???

     There were a lot of people already at trunk or treat when we arrived. Connor was the center of attention and had his picture taken by so many people. He didn't care because he had his mind set on getting lots of candy. Haha! There were so many great looking trunks and good tasting food. Not to mention so much candy!!!

 Aaron's platoon setup this FLA into a spooky ice cream truck. Connor was brave enough to enter.

 I can't get over how adorable he looked and how perfectly everything came together. 

Connor loved all the games, especially the bean bag toss and bowling.

Connor got tattoos as a prize, so Aaron put on on his hand.

 This trunk won second place. Connor was really scared to enter because someone was inside and would scare you when you tried to grab candy. I don't blame him.

 Connor was tired of wearing his plane, so I wore it the rest of the night.

    After trunk or treating, we went to our friends house. Connor was able to get the traditional trick or treating experience there.

 The moon was orange and spooky.

 Trick or treat?

 So many good candies for me Connor to eat.

     On Halloween, we wanted to take it easy. We took Connor to another trunk or treat event, but the line for candy was so long that we skipped it. All the game booths were gone, so we let him run around and play for a little while before going to the store to buy candy for trick or treating at our house.

 My most favorite picture EVER! A little boy pushed the googles down on his face and I was able to quickly get this picture before he pushed them back up.

 Aviator in the clouds!

 When we got home from buying candy, we ate dinner and then put our pumpkins and a candle in font of our house to signify that we were handing out candy. Like I said last year, most Italians don't celebrate Halloween like we do, but have started to recently since there are so many American's in the community. It didn't take long before the first group of kids rang our bell. There were at least 10 of them and they swarmed our bowl of candy. They started grabbing at least 4 bags a piece {there was candy, and bags of cookies and sour patch kids}. They weren't shy and ended up only leaving us with 2 pieces of candy! Connor was so excited when the kids came to our house, but that smile quickly turned to tears when they took all "his" candy. He kepts saying "no kids my house" over and over and anytime the doorbell rang he got really sad and said "kids no candies."

Handing out candy to the first group of kids and right after they left.  

Thankfully we hadn't poured our chocolate candy in the bowl because I guarantee you it would have been all gone! After that, I coached Aaron and told him NOT to let them take it from the bowl. In between trick or treaters, we watched episodes of The Walking Dead. We just started season one and have quickly become obsessed!

Don't worry, we saved a bag of good candy for us!

    I'd say Halloween was a success this year. I'm not really sure how we are going to top our costumes next year, but I'm sure we will come up with something!