Halloween Week-end Wrap Up

14 days late on this post, but what's new these days? Feels a little odd to be blogging about Halloween as we gear up for Thanksgiving and some are already decorating for Christmas- ie: City of Hiram, who has already put up their Christmas lights on the all the light post and power poles in Hiram. Too early if you ask me-can we just give our Thanks first AND then decorate for Christmas? Why is that so abnormal these day's?

Halloween festivities lasted a good week around this house. Between the girls Fall Festivals at school, the Paulding Meadows Annual Trick or Treat Village and Halloween itself, the P's had to detox on candy for a good week. Throw in a couple of birthday celebrations that weekend and we were partied out.

Here's the run down:

Fall Festivals- Tues and Thurs- Prior blog post

Alicia's Birthday Dinner at La Cocina- Friday- Great time w/ great friends, enjoying our fave cuisine and monster margaritas! The girls really love hanging out w/ their son Brayden, they get along so well and we complete content playing ant smasher and angry birds all night. Here's a cute little pic of Brayden and Presleigh.

Trick or Treat Village-Saturday- Its held at Paulding Meadows every year. Local businesses, vendors, along w/ the fire depts, sheriff dept's etc, set up booths, haunted houses, games, hay rides where they hand out candy. Its always a lot of fun for the kiddos so we go back every year, we've been going since Presleigh was 1 1/2 and Paisley barely crawling. They of course rack up on candy, get their hair sprayed funky colors, play games, pick a big ol' nose full of snot to find more candy, walk through haunted houses, watch a parade, play on the inflatable slides and dance at the dj booth. I only have one pic to share from this year, but its a pretty impressive one. Presleigh showed a lot of courage by having her picture taken with this scary lookin' dude and the look on her face is proof.

Tinsley's Fairy First Birthday- Sunday. We headed over to the McCollum's house for the birthday celebration. Jennie ( the Mom ) did a fabulous job decorating for T's first birthday! Rolling w/ the woodland fairly theme, all the little girls were equipped w/ tutu's, which the P's loved. We had a great time at the party catching up with all the parents that we do not get to see enough. Although we showed up an hour late, because in my mind the party was a 2, not 1, it went off without a hitch and the birthday girl scored some pretty sweet gifts-which I had to fight the P's off of. Here's some pics of the party stolen from the creator's page :)




Miss Tinsley, Mableton's Most Magical Woodland Fairy





Me and sweet Abigail, 1st time meeting this little one in person.




Me and the pretty birthday girl, post party.



On Monday, Halloween had officially arrived and by 5pm trick or treaters were already making their rounds in Downtown Dallas. We loaded up Snow White and Cinderella in their plastic radio flyer carriage and headed down to MiMi's. Each year we have a big group that meets at my Mom's to trick or treat. She's a great hostess, providing food, adult beverages, snacks and little goody bags for the kids. We quench our thirst and fill our tummy's, watch a few of the trick or treaters then head out. The girls LOVED handing out candy to the trick or treaters and looking at all the costumes, especially the scary ones. I'd venture to say, they probably enjoyed this part more than actual trick or treating. A little background info, thousands of kids trick or treat in downtown Dallas every year. If you are a resident in the City of Dallas, you best be stock piling your candy all year because you will spend a few hundred dollars on candy and still run out by 8pm forcing yourself to run in the house before the next group comes up and turn off the lights. Its unreal how many people come out to podunk Dallas for Halloween. We had a couple Princesses,Captain America a Lego, Donald Duck, Spider Man, and  Ladybug in tow as we hit the streets. Some handed out candy, others gave popcorn and one house even gave out cotton candy. After a couple of hours our entourage started to get a little sleepy so we headed back.I didn't get too many pics this year, but I did get some. Notice Craig in his scary old man mask, we decided to have some fun w/ that while we were out. Even better, notice Erik in his Batman costume. I cannot tell you how many little boys wanted their pictures taken with Batman, if he got stopped one more time,I was going to start charging. We plan to pimp him out for b-day parties in the near future!

Another successful and fun Halloween is on the books and the girls are already talking about what they are going to dress up as next year.