halloween 2012

This was the boys' first year trick-or-treating and they had a blast! I'm glad we waited until Caleb was ready for it. He was so excited to wear his costume and say trick or treat and go to the houses with his little friend from down the street. It was so fun. It made me miss our family and a little sad that they don't live closer for times like this, but we did a skype with grandma and grandpa and we did some phone calls to nani and auntie jenny. When I made the video the only thing you could hear were the adults telling the kids to say 'trick or treat' and 'thank you' so I decided to just put in the one video where you could clearly hear caleb 'practicing' He said some shy thank yous and we were so proud of him! He was nervous but he did it.
Being able to do things like this with the boys makes me remember my sweet childhood memories! We always had the entire family over for dinner before trick or treating. Nani was always a clown. Pasta was always made. Daddy always scared the kids in his Darth Vader costume. Poppy always handed out the candy. My mom and nani always took us girls trick or treating around the neighborhood (in our usually hand made matching costumes) And we always had a lot of fun. Dave remembered always having spider hot dogs...so he made a spider hot dog for caleb (which was caleb's thrill of the night). We are carrying on some of our family traditions with the boys and creating some of our own...and I love it :)
Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween :)