Happy Halloween!

Yeah, yeah, I'm a couple days late :P


This is Averie's second Halloween but her first year trick-or-treating.  We took her to our church's trunk-or-treat last year, but at not quite a year old, she didn't really get the point and we only let her have one or two pieces of candy -- we're terrible parents, I know ;-).  


We went with a skeleton costume for her after I found this shirt for myself and a similar one (without the baby :P) for Chris, so we were a little skeleton family.  


This year, we're living with my parents and their ward does not do a trunk-or-treat.  We took her to StorageCraft where Chris works for some T-o-Ting around the office.  


She got the idea pretty quickly and ran from bowl to bowl grabbing candy to throw in her pumpkin bucket.  


A few times, she got a little overzealous and dug in with both hands!  She wasn't afraid of "Death", AKA Chris' coworker Aaron, until he got down at her level and then she just ran away. 


After some candy-gathering for Mommy and Daddy herself, we went home and rested for a little bit until it was time for a little jaunt around the neighborhood.  We only ended up hitting 7 houses -- the houses in my parents' neighborhood are large houses on even-larger lots so it's still a lot of walking.  Averie started off walking down the street with her bouncy little walk and by the end was holding out her arms to be carried.  

Obviously she couldn't say "trick or treat" but we did teach her to sign "thank you."  She pats her mouth when she does it, so it actually looks like blowing kisses, which is equally cute :). 


When we got home, she promptly dumped out her candy on the floor and gave us this winner of an expression...

Ahhh, caaandyyyy....

Averie got enough to keep her happy for a few weeks, although we told her she needs to step up the candy-gathering next year so there's more for us her :D.