The Costumes and Trick-or-Treatin

I love people that dress up on Halloween and I love seeing what people dress up as on Halloween.

And I LOVE seeing homemade costumes. Those people are EXTRA awesome.

I feel like you get to know people a little better when you see them on Halloween. Seeing whether they are fun or creative and to what level, what things they like, movies they are in to, their sense of humor, what they are willing to wear for someone they love perhaps. I like hearing about people's costumes. It's all just so fun to me!

 This is Kasen's fourth Halloween and it was the best one yet!
 This year he was a bear and had his bear ROAR down.

 Little Miss Tai Lynn was the lion that Kasen wore 2 years ago, except she got a pink bow to go with it cause she is a girl lion... and she knows how to ROAR as good as Kasen!

 She thought her hands were so funny.

 More hugs. I LOVE the hugs.

 Dah dah dah duh!
Our complete Lions and Tigers and Bears ensemble.
The only thing I had to buy this year was Kasen's coat! I made Kyle's shirt with an iron on transfer, borrowed the Tigger costume from Melanie and had the lion costume from 2 years ago. I'm sure we will use it again in the future too.

 Yay for family group costumes!

 And yay for me finding an easy costume for Kyle to participate in! Took minimal convincing.

 Jon and Sydney came over to go trick-or-treating with us since they live down the road.
My mom came to see the kids costumes again this year too! So she took a turn staying to hand out candy then Kyle went back and switched with her.

 Tai was so cute. The first piece of candy she got she just held in her hand so the second house we went to she tried putting her piece of candy back in their bowl. She figured it out by the end though and never stopped holding my hand the whole night. I never heard her say trick-or-treat, but when she'd leave a door she'd say, "halloween!"

 Also, one of our neighbors had a table set up outside making scones and homemade doughnuts for the trick-or-treaters! Ummm YUM!

 This year we even made it down 2 street instead of just one! Then we came back and had some of Sydney's yummy Cincinnati Chili over spaghetti noodles and I made the kids some dirt cups, complete with the gummy bears that Walmart substituted my gummy worms for.

 Happiest of Halloweens!

HALLOWEEN

On Halloween we took some fall pictures out on my mini session set up because I think it's stinkin cute!

I won't be doing them again next year though because I didn't have enough people sign up to make buying the set up worth it.

Also, Peeka likes to eat/tear apart pumpkins.

Actually, I am super shocked that I didn't have more people wanting to do fall mini sessions. If I saw a chance to get some good photos of my kids for only TWENTY dollars I would be ECSTATIC (Like over the MOON ecstatic) and jump at that opportunity! My friends charge $150 for their mini sessions and then I charge $20 and have 4 people come... Then I see people's super crappy, dark, blurry and grainy Halloween pictures and #1 feel bad for them and #2 want to tell them that's what you get for not just coming on over and letting me take some photos for ONLY $20! If I was just trying to make money then I guess I would charge more, but the bigger point for me is that I believe that pictures NEED to be taken of your children (good, PRINTABLE pictures) and if that means charging next to NOTHING then I'll do it because I also LOVE seeing everyone's costumes. So THANK YOU to the 3 friends that supported my dreams! :)

Furthermore, any advice to aid in my future success would be welcomed.

And while I'm bragging about how awesome I am I will tell you that the week before Halloween I had 5 photo sessions in 4 days AND everyone had their pictures edited and delivered to them within 1-2 DAYS. DAYS!! Tell me of any other photographer that does that!

Anyways...I went to Walmart and Old Navy and finally found some Halloween jammies for Tai at Target, but nothing for Kasen. But I am still in love with these pictures!

So I'm going to print them and cherish them because I can ;)

 Lil' cameo of the pumpkin we carved ;)

 I can't even pick my favorites. I have to have all of them!

Kasen didn't want to be in the pictures for a little bit because 1. Tai was touching his pumpkin and 2. He wanted to help me to get her to smile by singing "E-I-E-I-Yikes!" from a library book they think is hilarious. Tai kept saying, "Come on Kasen!" which is new cause she used to just call him "Asen" without the K.

 I don't know if she's pulling his hair, but her crossed ankles make it cute whatever it is that she's doing!

 Hello Meeko!

Happy Halloween!