Halloween, 2015

Why yes, we are lately very excited about Halloween. Catalina can't wait to get dressed, she hears from school about all the events the other kids have planned, and this excitement rubs off on all of us.

It started with the Halloween parade at her school. She wore her last year costume, the cute fairy! She gathered so, so many compliments! She was stopped by adults to admire her fancy costume, while watching the parade we were told by people we never met how absolutely adorable she is. Duh...we know...we see her and marvel at her every day.

Once all the fun was done at school one of Catalina's classmates asked if she can come to our house to play.. All good for me, we had 3 happy girls playing in our house, while the two adults had time to catch up with whatever happened during the week. Did I mention October was an especially crazy, stress (good stress) filled month?

Once the girls left home we were ready to start our own Halloween preparations. Jack'o lantern, here you come! Mommy was incredibly tired and fell asleep on the couch, but never tired Catalina found and convinced daddy to participate in an elaborate pumpkin dissection.

Look what I've done, mommy!!

Catalina decided long ago she will be Merida for Halloween. This happened after we found a blue/green velvet dress that was very much to her liking. If you ask me, the dress looks more like Anna' dress (from Frozen), but Catalina hates Anna, so we all decided that the pretty dress and cape go very well with Merida. Thus, I braided Catalina 12 braids so she can have some volume in her hair and she was one happy Merida!

Dare I say I have a gorgeous princess?...

We went trick or treating in our old neighborhood and we collected lots of candy. My kids has an amazing sense of sense control, so after her basket was half full she looked and decided that she has more than enough candy. We had a nice, warm evening, and a happy and very excited girl. perfect recipe for a happy Halloween.