all dressed up

It took us a long time to decide what to wear for Halloween this year.  In fact we did not buy something for Matthew until the day of.  You can imagine I was running all over town to complete his costume.  The shirt and boots were found at Smarty Pants, a resale shop here in Waco.  I got the bandanna at Academy and the hat came from Baskins.  He calls it his Woody hat.  The costume was completed by his great grandaddy's Texas Ranger badge.  It is an honor for us to have it and to let Matthew use it for his costume.

"The Cowboy"

We were lucky that he wanted to be a cowboy.  This outfit doubled as a costume for his cousin Maverick's 1st birthday party a couple of weeks later. The theme was cowboys and indians.  

We had never really talked to Matthew about Halloween or trick or treating so he did not really know what it was. In fact, this was our first year to trick or treat. But once candy was mentioned he was ready to go. 

We went to the Bruer's house first.  Mr. and Mrs. Bruer live right across the street from us.  They were giving away normal size candy bars and packages of skittles.  Not the fun size ones.  I think they gave us two.  

"Let's go get more candy."

Matthew had a lot of fun trick or treating.  He tried to dig in each persons candy basket to get more candy than he was given.  He even tried to go into one person's house.  We only went around our block but ended up with a whole pumpkin of candy.  

And here is Samuel.  This was his first Halloween   He was supposed to be born before Halloween but I guess he wasn't ready yet.  So he missed it last year.  

 "Super Sam"

We put him in the Superman costume that Matthew wore for his first Halloween. He was so cute but it was a stretch for it to fit.  Matthew was only about 6 months old when he wore it.

"Super Matthew"

He was so happy to get to walk in the street.  

He even got to do a couple of fly byes.

Here the boys are going to our neighbors house, the Manhands.  They are so sweet and love our boys.  They also have two dogs that Matthew and Samuel love.  

We had so much fun, and ate so much candy!  In fact Matthew ate too much and was sick in the night.  Yuck! We will know better for next year!