Happy Halloween!!

Greg + I took the kids out trick or treating tonight and we had a pretty good time.  The weather was much better then last year - so MUCH warmer out!

Here are some photos of our little ghouls!

Penelope the flower

Finley the Monkey.  Notice the full cheek + licorice in hand.  We had to bribe her to get it on.  She would wear the bottoms but refused to put the top part on!

Although seeing all the trick or treaters helped with the process too and soon she forgot she was wearing the top part of the costume

Handing out candy to the trick or treaters before we headed out!

Penelope out and about!

Finley's first house at our neighbour's!

The first trick or treat of the season!

Daddy with his ghouls!

Penelope went about a few blocks and then headed home to hand out treats.  My hands were cold and Penelope didn't want to be in the stroller.  Greg and Finley continued on and ended up with 2 pumpkins more of candy!  We've probably had over 50 kids and it's barely 8pm! The kids started much earlier this year, which is kinda nice!

Finley is obsessed with suckers even though she can't have any.  She wants to eat and eat and eat the candy and freaks when we say no.  I did let her have a box of smarties + some swedish berries for the first time EVER but she wants more.

Hope everybody had + is having a Spooktakular Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving!

For various reasons (mostly medical), we hadn't carved a pumpkin since Halloween 2007, so it was pretty exciting to be able to do a couple this year, especially with Finley + Penelope now here!  I was really hoping that this would  be something that Finley would enjoy but maybe next year.....

She was not impressed with the goo on the top of the pumpkins at all....

For some reason Greg thought it would be good if Finley put her hands inside the pumpkin to feel the pumpkin guts.

Apparently he forgot that she HATES her hands being dirty - especially with wet, sticky, stringy, slimy stuff.....

She was not at all impressed.

She did like touching the pumpkin until Greg threw pumpkin guts on it so she'd be forced to touch it.  She did, however, help put the insides of the pumpkin + the seeds into the bowl if daddy missed.  Which he started to do on purpose.  She left when he began putting it on her arms + legs.

Greg getting the stencil ready to do pumpkin #1

Finley taking a look at the end result.  She wasn't too impressed until....

She saw Mr. Skeleton are lit up!  She kept saying ooooh and wowww it was quite cute!

Here is pumpkin #2 - which was done by freehand incase you guys couldn't tell.....hahah

It was especially fitting considering the Riders are taking on the Lions today!

Both pumpkins all lit up before going outside!

Hopefully this pumpkin won't result in our house getting egged or vandalized.  There's a kid down the street who trash talks us all the time after seeing a Rider flag in our garage...

Happy Halloween Everybody!

Spooktacular Decorations....

Here are some photos of our house decorated for Halloween.....

Party #1

Finley still has no idea what a birthday actually is.  When we wished her a happy birthday she was clueless.  But she certainly enjoyed all of the attention and the fact that Grandma Gail, Grandma Toot + Aunty Kristy were there to spoil her!

Finley + I went to CRAVE cupcake in Willow Park so she could pick out some mini cupcakes for her actual birthday dessert.  She was so excited to be there.  We had the Princess Cupcake in chocolate!

For supper we had Spaghetti with meat sauce.  Spaghetti is one of her favorite meals.  She refuses to wear bibs anymore so we have to get her naked for these very messy meals.  Although she did slop less then Grandma Toot.....hahahaha

She was a little unsure of the sparkly candles at first....

But eventually she warmed up to them and it looks like she enjoyed them...

She looks so big in this photo - it makes me a little sad inside....

She was so excited for her cupcake.  Daddy kept teasing her before she actually was able to grab it out of her hand!

This year's Crave cupcake experience was FAR LESS messier then last year, that is for sure!

I had wrapped this present a few days before her birthday and set them on the coffee table.  Greg had said that I should hide them because Finley would rip them open.  But she didn't even acknowledge them and had to really convince and help her to even open the one above.

But as soon as she saw what it was, she was super excited!

Daddy showing Finley how to use her new hockey stick

Finley had a blast playing hockey and thankfully the puck never went near Penelope!

All in all, Finley had a great birthday spent with some of her favorite people.  We even went to Red Lobster for lunch where she got some garlic shrimp, cucumbers + cheese biscuits!  The servers surprised her with ice cream and some singing!  She loved all of the attention and especially the ice cream!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Finley!