Neverland and the Maddux clan

halloween was spook-tacular for us this year!

it started off at the ward halloween party...

it was so fun to get into it with the kids.

my mom found this tinkerbell costume months ago after I mentioned I was thinking ali would make a cute tinkerbell this year, and the rest just fell into place after that.

cole thinks pirates are awesome and he loves the movie peter pan so he was just a little excited about our theme...

seriously how cute is he? Captain Hook was all about posing for the camera this year...so much easier than last year...alas my baby is growing up...

but don't worry ali fell right into the-hard-to-wrangle-in-a-photo-child role. this is the best I could get...
(and if you are looking closely yes those are dots on her legs...a topic for a whole seperate post...ali has had quite the month poor child. and that is a bite mark on her arm, not ring worm, from a run in with an equally stubborn gal pal.)

please note the adorable tinkerbell shoes that I had to search hard to find, that she for some reason refused to wear in this picture, but has been otherwise obsessed with.

a huge shout out to my friend Ashley who whipped this wendy costume up for me! I know super talented huh?!

and an ever "huge-er" shout out to my fabulously secure husband who worked this

Mr. Smee costume like nobodies business. seriously he is such a good sport. love him.

(he and cole would only call each other Captain Hook and Mr. Smee around the house.)

the ward party was tons of fun. it was a carnival/dinner/trunk or treat event.

ali got a hang of the trick or treating really fast...does she look happy about her haul or what?


in fact she was still obsessed with it 2 days later when it was time to trick or treat. instead of running off to the first house she stooped down and inspected her candy in her "pocket" as she calls it that was still there from trunk or treating.

we eventually got her going though...


but that was short lived...this was her after the first house, crouched down admiring her spoils.

cole was all about it and up for visiting every last house.
daddy eventually had to resort to this...

and speaking of daddy...he gets the award for cutest daddy ever this year...

he planned and exicuted this awesome acivity all by himself. he made hot apples cider, dyed it red, and added dry ice. then he had dried fruit, but told cole and ali that it was lizard tounges, spider legs, tail of rat...you get the idea...look how into this they were...

and who wouldn't be when daddy puts something like this infront of you!

and let's you throw "gross" stuff in...

...to something that looks like this!

it was awesome...he even replaced the kitchen lights with a black light.

it was ADORABLE.

the kids LOVED every minute of their "potion making".

I think it needs to be a tradition.

and as if it could have gotten any cuter daddy ended the night with hilarious monster stories.

basically this halloween was rediculously fun.

hope you had fun too!

Happy Haunting!