Our Little Guy's First Halloween

I know, I know. I am over a month late on telling you about our little guy’s first Halloween. It’s been crazy around here. I talked about how my little blog took a back seat during all of the crazy the past few months. I thought it was time to not only be back, but to make up for lost time. I can’t believe our sweet guy is celebrated his first Halloween already. This past year Halloween fell on a Monday (boo!). Since J and I have been together we always go over to his family’s for Halloween, but this year we didn’t get to. We live too far away to make the drive and be work-ready the next day. So we opted to stay close this year.

We did go to my parents’ house to do a little trick-or-treating. Well I’m not sure how much you can do with a 6-month old, but hey! we tried.

Actually, my parents live out of town a bit so my Mom never got any trick-or-treaters besides my and my sister’s friends. It was kind of nice for her to have a trick-or-treater at her door. Even if we showed up late and had to get him dressed while we were there. Have I mentioned life is crazy?

I never knew how hard it would be to decide on a costume for our little guy, too! So many choices and they are all so cute! I couldn’t get over it. I wanted to keep it simple. This budgeter wasn’t about to go spend a small fortune on a costume. Instead we used what we had. During vacation in Florida this past Summer, J had found a Forrest Gump costume. It was on a clearance and way too big at that time. Honestly, it was still too big on Halloween, but we made it work.

I was never a big fan of Halloween, even when I was little. I would go to my Grandparents’ house each year to help pass out candy. I never dressed up and pretty much avoided Halloween through college, too. Now that I have a child to take around, I totally get the excitement. I can’t wait for him to just keep getting bigger and bigger. I’m thinking next year we might actually go trick-or-treating with him.