Halloween Tails

 This year Joshy was an elephant...

 ...and Gracie was a cow!

 I guess you can say they were both calves.  :)  

Sunday, the 30th, we went to G'ma Colleen and Papa Scott's right after I came home from a girls weekend in Leavenworth.  I think I was missed...Gracie displayed this by not wanting to rush off in costume as soon as I got home.  So, the sweet outfit that G'ma Colleen made for her was worn half-heartedly this night.

 Janie and Henry were at G'ma and Papa's house, too!

 Janie was the Tiana from Princess and the Frog

and Henry was Tigger.

(This was hilarious to us--Gracie had just had a crazy dream about "Tigger crying"a few nights before.  This Tigger was quite content, though--no crying here!)

 This boy is getting so big so fast!

 On our way home, Gracie got to eat one Mounds bar.  The others she had to save for the next day.

When we got in the garage, Jeff thought that the smell of chocolate and coconut was awfully strong...










...and he opened our van door to this:  a girl with a warmed candy bar oozing out its edges onto our cute pajama'ed girl.

But on Halloween Eve, you get a quick wipe down and you get sent to bed with chocolate smudges on your jams...

And on Monday, after work, we tried it again...

...stopping by our neighbor's house and Granny and Pappy's house.  A much better go-around.  :)

Elephant Boy.  When you ask, "Josh, what does the elephant say?" he does a quick trumpeting noise while lifting up his arm like a trunk in the air.  Cute!

Gracie wanted to be a cow ever since she saw a baby cow costume at Costco in September.  She talked G'ma into making her one and loved the red cowbell that G'ma found to complete the outfit.