Halloween in Happy Valley. Through the Lens Series, Entry 36.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!  It's 6:30am and I've been up since 5am editing a maternity session from last weekend.  We have a big day ahead of us with a Turkey Trot and feasting with friends this afternoon.  I'm going to squeeze in another Christmas card session this afternoon too, so getting my editing out of the way at 5am is the way to go for me today.

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm working on Christmas card photos, so I can't post them just yet.  So now is a good time for me to put up a few photos from Halloween.  Russ and I both big fans of Monsters Inc. so I couldn't resist buying a Sully costume for Maxwell this year.  Unfortunately for me, he was not as enthusiastic about the idea as I was.

We got to celebrate Halloween 3 times this year.  We went Trick or Treating in Minturn the night before Halloween with our friends Emma, Evan and Tyce.  This is my favorite event for Halloween because the people watching is fantastic.  Minturn's main street consists of store fronts with homes dotted throughout and both the businesses owners and the home owners go all out to make it special.  It's also a small enough town that you can be done in an hour, which is important in the valley, because you never know how cold it might be.

The next day they had a big party at Maxwell's school and parents were invited to come along.  We played in the gym and the kids had a big picnic with cookies, candy and a little bit of fruit.  We ventured on to Miller Ranch that night as you can see by the photos, Maxwell was done with that silly costume by this stage.  He was much happier to be munching on pizza in his Superman t-shirt.  Maybe we'll try a Superman costume next year...

Happy Turkey Day!

Getting dressed in the back of the car in Minturn.  We learned pretty quickly before leaving for Minturn that costumes and car seats don't work well together.  

Emma the Pink Unicorn and Evan the Bumblebee in Minturn. 

Tyce the Dragon.

Halloween at Daycare with Ben the Cowboy.  Maxwell wouldn't let me get one photo with the head on his outfit!

Hmmmmm, sugar cookies or chocolate chip.                                            I'll start with a sugar cookie.

So happy to be out his costume at Miller Ranch.