Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloween 2012

My family gathered at my parents' house for the annual Hadfield Halloween extravaganza.  Russ borrowed a super nice camera lens from work and took hundreds (seriously) of pictures.  I have whittled it down to the best 50 or so ;) but if you only look at five, it should be these:

Davis was the cutest cowboy. Ever. In the history of the world.

I love my daddy, and I'm so glad he was feeling so well this fall!

My mom is amazing. And beautiful.

Thanks to cousin Kahler for letting up borrow his authentic getup, Davis was dressed to the hilt.

Callie was an Indian princess. I figured I might not have many years when I can dress the kids according to a theme for Halloween.  And the fact that I had a costume to borrow (thanks, Lynette!) didn't hurt.

And now on to the next best 40 pictures :)

My sister, Michelle, always has a great blackmail picture in store.

cousins Ethan, Brett, Davis, Abbie

Abbie has always loved The Wizard of Oz, just like her mom

After riding in the tractor to "the pumpkin patch" (my parents' garden), the grandkids get to pick out a pumpkin


my beautiful girl


 




This was the closest we could get to a smile from Ethan -- love that kid!

Grandpa even let the kids help drive the tractor. 
Davis loved it. 
I could almost see him driving the tractor on the farm.
Not that we have a farm...



my lovely sister, Amy

Davis sure loves Callie


The kids played "pin the spider on the web."

They also played Halloween bingo.

There was also a ring toss.




Callie looked festive in her Halloween shirt from Grandma Hadfield.



After the party, the kids had fun playing in the leaves for a very long time.





Some kids liked having leaves thrown on them more than others...


Sweet Abbie puts up with a lot from her younger cousins.
She is the only girl cousin in state except for Callie.
She is counting down the time until Callie can do girly things with her.




Our Halloween festivities this month included carving pumpkins.
I'm not sure why Davis felt he needed to wear my sunglasses.
He is his own person.

On Halloween, we had visits from some of our favorite people, Ellie & Lynlee Spencer.

It is so hard to get three kids to smile at once, especially when one of the kids is Davis.


Davis had a blast trick-or-treating.
We only went to a few homes around the neighborhood before we headed to Lynette's house for trick-or-treating with cousins.


Our cute neighbor, Joy Thompson, got all dolled up as Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games.

Davis wasn't sure what to think of her.




It was a great holiday.  Davis looks forward to Halloween all year long.