Trick or Treat Part 1

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. Maybe it's because I'm a teacher and I love kids, candy, and dress up? or maybe it's because I like the spooky, creepy, crawly holiday. Who knows exactly why. All I know is that once October hits, I am counting down the days until Halloween. Side note: This is one of the least favorite holidays among my teacher friends. Because, kids are cray. However, it's my absolute favorite. (yes, more than Christmas and Valentine's day.) Kids in costumes?! Parades? trick-or-treating? Um, yes please!

However, now that I'm a mama I love it even more! I'm convinced everything is more fun when you're a mom. At least looking back, I think so. Anywho, this year picking out Dayton's costume was pretty easy. We thought about his favorite things (#allboy) and wrote down a few ideas: shark, dinosaur, construction, John Deere, firefighter, police man, etc. We looked at a few costumes and availability (and price), but we finally narrowed it down to the shark or a construction worker.

We bought both at Target and brought them home to make our final decision. I was leaning towards shark, but only because I had found the cutest turtle costume for Colton and I was all about the matching/coordinating costumes. But, Dayton finally ended up picking the construction worker. In the end, I was glad he did because he's getting much more use out of that $20 costume (thanks Target!) than he would have gotten from the shark. And I have to say, he was a pretty darn cute construction worker.

Our first trick-or-treat adventure was down in Marion, Iowa at the Marion airport. Thanks to my sister-in-law, who found this gem, we were able to drive down and trick-or-treat with the grandparents, and the cousins. The mini airport did a fantastic job of making the afternoon enjoyable. There were fire engines, police cars, helicopters, and of course small airplanes. I'm pretty sure Dayton was in little boy heaven (even though you'd never know from his stoic facial expressions).

After we got done at the airport, Grandma and Grandpa took both kiddos to their house for 24 hours (that's about all this mama could handle) for our first kid free weekend since before I got pregnant with Colton!! We were a little excited. And I did pretty good. Only a few tears. *wink*

Grandpa was a sweetheart and sent this mama photos of her babies the whole time they were gone. They had a blast playing with their cousin, Jackson, and getting to go for some more trick-or-treating! And we enjoyed some quality alone time at home - with no kids!