Tricky Tricky Halloween

"Tricky, tricky, Halloween." I have no idea what that's from, but I vaguely remember my cousins chanting it with a thick accent in Colombia.

Halloween is kind of a bust this year. We had our fall festival last night, but Mila and I were feeling deathly ill. I didn't even want to go, but felt like I had to for the kids. Marcelo was working a booth and had invited a friend, so he got there early while I stayed home with the kids for awhile longer. Poor Diego kept asking, "How much longer are you going to feed Camila?? When can we go??" We finally showed up with just an hour left. It was pretty breezy and cool outside, which made me want to just take Mila home, but alas, someone had to pass out candy while someone else took the kids trunk or treating. Thankfully my cousin helped and held the baby while I handed out candy to all the kids.

Before we left, I set up a tripod and begged my family to smile for one picture. When I got some eyerolls from my poor husband who probably gets quite sick of being married to a photographer, I said, "Come on, we'll never get this moment back!" He said, "We'll never get A LOT of moments back." Because I probably use that line a lot. BUT HE WILL THANK ME ONE DAY. :)

So here we are in our Cowboy and Indian get ups. A big thanks to my mom for scoring these costumes and to my mother-in-law for providing a shirt for my growing Diego who no longer fits in hardly any of his plaid shirts. I made Mila's outfit (I rock the glue gun), the "boots" for the boys (didn't quite work out, but I whipped out my mini sewing machine for them...I know, who am I?), and the headbands for both girls.

My handsome cowboys. Whoa there, smolder much? ;) As they were getting dressed, Celo decided he wanted to be Batman instead. Pretty sure one of his friends at school is going as Batman because Celo has zero interest in superheros. Anyway, he finally gave in and wore the cowboy stuff, but I'm guessing he's going to want to wear his Batman PJs on Wednesday for trick or treating.

I had too much fun making these braids for my sweet baby girl. Hilarious. Hoping I can get a better picture on Wednesday. And Eliana thought these boots were so awesome. She wanted us to be twins so she kept telling me to put on my boots, too.

On Wednesday Marcelo has school, so he won't be able to go trick or treating with us. The boys are sad about that. And we didn't do our usual family party this year for the first time in....I don't even know how many years. There's just been too much going on and no one was really up for it. Hopefully we'll bring the tradition back next year for the kids.