Roar!

My original plan was for Anna to wear a bear costume and dress our yellow lab as a lion (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!), but my coworker offered to let us use her lion costume and I couldn't justify buying a new costume when we could use one for free.  My little 2 1/2 year old girl is wearing an 18 month sized costume.  The legs were a little short, but otherwise it fit just fine.

We actually went trick or treating twice- well okay, three times if you count our church's trunk or treat which we did on Saturday for something fun to do.  Our town has trick or treating hours on the Sunday closest to Halloween to avoid trick or treating after dark.  A long time ago before we moved here a girl was abducted around this area during trick or treating in the dark, and it's been scheduled like that for daylight ever since.  However, for the second year in a row, Daddy was required to go on a work trip during trick or treating, so he was not able to go with us.  We went anyway with our our daycare provider's family, just for fun.  My orignal plan worked out anyway, because they were all dressed as bears.

Lions, Tigers, and Bears (times three), oh my! 

(The best photo of the 5 kids, ages 5 and under)

Daddy got home from his work trip the morning of Halloween and so we went trick or treating again at the city I work in, because they have trick or treating on the actual date every year, so he could go with us for the first time.  Since Sam and Anna love going out and about, and judging from their excitement the first time, I knew they'd have a ball doing it again.