Happy Halloween!

Today we celebrated Kerriann's third Halloween.  Wow, I can't believe that we are entering her third holiday season already.

We had a great day together!

We started by getting all dressed up in a cute Halloween outfit, and then heading to school.  I dropped her off and came back about an hour later for her Halloween parade.  Since her preschool is affiliated with the Department of Energy, all of the kids put on their costumes and walked over to the DOE building.  The employees were all lined up in the hallways ready to pass out candy.  Kerriann was such a good girl, and rotated between saying "Trick or Treat," "Happy Halloween," "Please," and "Thank You."

Kerriann received a ton of candy and had so much fun at school.  She was really upset when it was time for me to leave, but when I picked her up she was in a great mood again and even had a couple of really cute Halloween crafts to show me.

(Don't mind the cake, or the rest of the mess in the background... haha!)

As soon as we got home from school Kerriann was begging for candy and to go trick or treating, so I managed to get her to eat some chicken and strawberries and then we put her costume back on. 

We walked around our neighborhood trick or treating for a good 30 minutes before I decided we should call it a night.  Kerriann had already collected a ton of candy, it was cold, and it had also started raining.  When we came back in we watched Halloween specials on TV and ate a few pieces of candy.

She had a bag of regular M&Ms, a bag of peanut butter M&Ms and a mini three musketeers bar and still went to bed at 8pm with no problem!

We had a great day, and the only thing missing was Kevin.  I'm already looking forward to celebrating Halloween and the rest of the holidays as a family of three next year!

Trunk or Treat

Tonight Kerriann experienced her first taste of trick or treating!  Trick or treat takes place on Thursday night this year in Morgantown, and unfortunately I have night class.  When I saw the sign that Chick-Fil-A's family night this week was "trunk or treat" themed I knew we had to stop by!  Kerriann is a big fan of their food and I wanted her to be able to trick or treat at least once this year.

After we had dinner inside, we got in line for trick or treating.

She was so excited that it was hard to keep her standing still in line.  There was a little girl dressed as a princess in front of us, so I asked her to please stay in line behind the princess.  So she proceeded to stand right up against this poor girl.  Luckily she didn't care much, but I tried to teach Kerriann a lesson in personal space without much success... haha.

Luckily I had my trusty sidekick aka "Aunt Loogy" along to help out with my crazy girl.

Kerriann had a great time going up to each car and saying "trick or treat" before getting her candy.  The only candy she ended up getting that was appropriate for her age was a little pack of M&M's, but I don't think that was entirely a bad thing!  She loved trying them for the first time and was so cute eating them.

We had a great night and hopefully we'll get to take her trick or treating again this year, but if not, at least we got a little taste of Halloween festivities tonight!