Trick or Treat

Ah Halloween, my second favorite holiday after Christmas. I love seeing the imaginations come out when people dress up and am pleasantly surprised every year. I am not a huge fan of the gruesome costumes or looking for a gory Halloween. I just love that once a year people get to use their imaginations to dress up and be something else for a day. We enjoy going to the harbor in Gig Harbor where the store fronts open up from 3pm-6pm and give out candy to the kids. It is great that it is during the day because then we don't deal with bad dreams later at night. It is amazing how young kids can realize that someone dressed up during the day is not scary but you pair that with the night and darkness and they have a harder time realizing that it is all pretend.

Hunter dressed up as a crocodile this year and Brayden was a dalmation puppy. Since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year we decided to get down to the harbor early so we could beat the rush of people. We met our friends Matt and Merrilee at their house and drove down together. We got to the harbor at 2o til 3 and saw some people already started. We were very thankful to start so early and we finished up at 4:15 and there were tons of people down there by then. We headed back to Matt and Merrilee's where we ate pizza and watched movies. It was a great evening spent with friends and the best part was how much fun the kids had.

Our first stop was the espresso stand.

My little crocodile walking with David, Matt and Merrilee's son.

Brayden would not wear the hood to his costume so most people thought he was a cow. He was very interested in what was going on with everyone around him.

Matt and Merrilee's daughter Rachel, dressed as a witch, showing us the toothbrush the dentist's office was giving out.

One of the store front owner's dressed up giving out candy. Hunter was not too sure about this and Brayden clung to Sean.

Hunter and Rachel waiting for the kid dressed up as the UPS man so they could go in and get their candy.

The sea monster! He growled at us and we were watching Hunter to see what his reaction was and he stepped back but then realized that he was a crocodile and he growled back and him. We all were cracking up!

Love the adults that dressed up.

This was the most beautiful costume we saw!

One of the houses along the harbor.

It was such a beautiful day out that Hunter got too hot with his hood on. At least it stayed on for half of the trick or treating.

Brayden was looking at another puppy. One of his favorite things right now.

He did so good. It only took a couple times before he figured out to take a piece of candy and put it in his bucket. Pretty amazing!

Hunter and Rachel stopping off at the firetruck.

Brayden getting his candy from the firefighter.

Look at the large chickadee, I didn't know they grew them that big!

A guy in the store front mimicking me.....hahaha

Mrs. Doubtfire

Some more fun costumes.

Towards the end, Brayden was dragging his bucket from all his candy. Around this point he gave up and just wanted to actually eat a piece.