Weekly update...Halloween!!

We have been looking forward to Halloween for some time...10 years waiting to take out one of our little ones. Well let me tell ya, we had a blast!!

Avery was a little black kitten, with pink ears and tummy. She was just adorable! One of the benefits of being a dance teacher, you get all sorts of costume catalogs etc. Everyone expected us to dress her as a ladybug, and we hate to be predictable, so we did something different. Avery adores all of our cats, and says Koko, and Homer all the time, and chases the cats around and loves on them constantly, so it was a great fit for her to be a "Koko"- kitty cat.

I love her tummy in the pictures, I think it's the best part of the costume, and she would waddle in the costume-so cute!

We actually started or trick or treating on Saturday evening. We went to Great Aunt Nancy and Uncle Tom's house in Mexico. They go all out for Halloween. A graveyard on the front lawn, all sorts of life size people- Frankenstein etc. A special walkway and a ton of orange lights and light up pumpkins- FUN!! So we traveled there Saturday night and trick or treated with them and a neighbor of theirs across the street. We visited and got some candy, and visited their dog-Carly. Avery loves Carly, she woofs at her- so sweet!

Avery was great about her costume, never fussed one bit, always kept her hood with her ears on, and fussed only a little Sunday night with the make up. Saturday night she sat still for the make up application, Sunday she knew what we were up too- little stinker! But she hung on to her orange plastic pumpkin old school trick or treat bucket. She would meow when you asked her too, couldn't say trick or treat but she was very much vocal telling everyone a bunch of stuff.

We started out at Uncle Steve and Aunt Beth's house and went from there with cousins Noah, Owen and Sam to Grandma Judy and Grandpa Ron's all together. Then we all went to Great Grandma Vi and Great Grandpa Lew's house. Went across the street to their neighbor Joanne's, and then we tagged along with Steve and Beth to a party of one of their friends. We know them also, I teach their daughter Lucia dance. Lucia, and her Mom were very anxious to meet Avery. Lucia met us out on the sidewalk. Lucia had sent a goody bag home with me from dance on Thursday, with marshmallows in it for Avery. We introduced Avery to a bunch of people that hadn't met he yet- a lot of fun!!  Thanks for letting us tag along!!

After that we stopped to a couple of friends houses in town, and went to Grandma Margaret and Grandpa John's house. To round off the night we stopped up the road from my parents and went to cousin Cindy and Paul's house. We had a ton of fun!!

We couldn't get over the number of kids, and families in town that were trick or treating!!  We kept saying to eachother look at all we missed over the years. We live outside of town, so we never see it, we usually just wait for our nephews to come trick or treating they are the only ones we would normally get.

We had a lot of fun and Avery was very good at all of the stops, just threw a little fit when we went to leave the party, didn't last long though. Avery was very sociable at the party walking around and smiling. We were very impressed with her.

Avery got a lot of special things for Halloween, a kitty cat stuffed animal, a book that has sounds, McDonalds gift certificates, glow bracelets, big candy bars. She made out like a bandit.

So our first Halloween was a hit, and now we can't wait for Christmas!!! Hope you had a fun and exciting Halloween!!