Happy Halloween!

Emmet's masterpiece below. Who doesn't love the time honored tradition of carving a Jack-O-Lantern with Daddy on Halloween Eve?

Leading up to this Halloween, Keeley, like most 3 year old girls, changed her costume idea multiple times. She started out the fall wanting to be Angelina Ballerina. Then she was dead set on "Elsa" from frozen and wearing her new dress up from Aunt Bri - the "FRozen Gown." However, last minute the day before the "Trick or Treat Street" Bethel downtown event, she told me she wanted to be a mermaid. Total curveball. I remembered we had a tiara in her closet and the singing sea shell necklace from "The Little Mermaid" in her closet. That will work. Then I found a sparkly sweater that I thought looked like scales, or at least, that is what I told Keeley. Finally a tutu that was her "fins." She was thrilled. And just like that, we had a mermaid. Cora was a little girl frog, a hand me down costume that Keeley wore at this age, which I can't get enough of. I guess the Ferriter girls just wanted to go aquatic this year. I'd say they pulled it off.

This was our first year participating in the "Trick or Treat Street" event, where all of the store owners in town stand outside handing out candy to the children of the neighborhood. It was so much fun. The streets were packed with Bethel kids and they couldn't have got a sunnier, more perfect day for families to be outside all afternoon walking up and down the sidewalks of Greenwood Avenue. On the Municipal Center lawn, they had speakers playing loud and fun Halloween music, and we met up with lots of familiar faces there. Dancing around with her satchel full of chocolate candy and greeting her friends like the mayor, Keeley was in her glory.

On Halloween night, we promised Keels we would trick-or-treat "In the Dark" for a bit, so we headed over to Ralph and Cheryl's next door, and then to the Ferriers up the block for some house to house strolling. The girls loved seeing all the kids out in costumes and the homeowners off of the main street did a fantastic job decorating and preparing for all the little people in town to come by.