Halloween Happiness

Well, we lived through it. The girls had a blast, and the traditional temper tantrums have been dealt with. So now we can put this holiday to rest for another year.

On the 30th we made our way to a battalion holiday party that the girls got to dress up for. They decorated cupcakes and ran around in circles. We stayed for about 30 minutes and it was anti-climatic to say the least. Here are a few pictures from that night. Carmen became camera shy all of a sudden so I took a short video of that.

Rosemary refused to wear her witch costume so she ended up going as a "spoiled brat". But she did invent a new way of eating cupcakes, here is the video for that too.

The next day we did venture out into the chilly night to trick or treat in the neighborhood. Each apartment building had a stairwell that you could go to. Most had people at the bottom of the stair to hand out candy so that made it a little faster. Since the girls are young we got away with skipping the others. Our building actually created a haunted house. Jim and Carmen went through it and Carmen enjoyed it completely!! Rosemary had never trick or treated before so when she held up her pumpkin and got candy she was extremely excited. She kept saying "mommy I trick treat! got candy!!" adorable. I think she shook most of her candy out of her pumpkin out of excitement. Too cute. Jim came up with a good idea to keep the path lit for the girls and not have to intrust our flashlights to the girls. He put them in the pumpkins and so the pumpkins became lights themselves. The girls loved it and we were stopped a few times to explain what we did and how it worked. Jim was very proud of himself.

Of course, the evening ended in screams, tears and time outs. About 10:30pm the fire alarm went off in our building so we had to grab the girls and carry them outside. Come to find out the smoke machine from the basement haunted house set it off. I was less than impressed (carmen doesnt do well when her sleep is interupted and she has actually had two siezures already this morning) But after making our way back up, the girls curled up and went back to sleep. The firedepartment showed up and finally turned off the alarm and all went back to normal.... well at least as normal as grown adults wandering around singing off key at 11pm can be. (gotta love military living!)

Here are the pictures I did get from the evening, my camera fogged over when we got back and so it took some cool pictures. I didnt realise I got any good shots of the girls in their outfits till this morning, oops, bad mommy.