My wonderful Halloween

Ok, so Halloween is THE big thing in our house. Tonight we went to Epcot as a family and had not only just a relaxed, wonderful night, but probably one of the best Halloweens I've ever had.


Here's Chloe taking off the clip earings we put on. She kept 'em on for about 3 seconds.



No singular thing happened that made it spectacular--it was just a culmination of things. Chloe finally wore the witches outfit that I was sooooo aching for her to wear.




Of course Fox HAD to dress up. This is one of the many outfits he wore during the Halloween season.






I'll post more photo session results later.


Fox was so fun and so good at the park. So many people commented on how cute HE was, too!



Granted, I had to bribe her with M&M's and other assorted candy to begin with -- I'll freely admit I'm not above bribbery. She started to melt down like during my previous attempt to dress her up, but when I brought out the candy, she was all eager to wear this outfit.

See? Candy does do you good.

And in her little witches outfit, she took my breath away.



The evening actually got off to a rocky start. I got Chloe and Fox all dressed and we were going to go up to Animal Kingdom and meet Barry and then head over to EPCOT to walk around.


Well, I get the kids ALL loaded up, I ran to both the Post Office and Bank like I needed to, found a perfect parking spot right on the first row of the park...only to realize I had left my Pass to get into the park back at the house.



I was going to bring up all this candy and leave it up at work, but as I had to come back home to scout for my pass, we didn't make it up to meet Barry inside the park.

So after having wrestled with the stroller getting it OUT of the car, I then had to get back into the car and head home. But we made it in time to meet Barry as he was leaving work.







Where's the chocolate?








Chloe is all excited to leave.












We turned on some music while we all got ready. Chloe had to DANCE.










I think once when we were mingling out with the crowds at the park and had quite a few people made a big deal over just how Chloe she looked, she ate up the attention and thought the outfit was pretty darn cool after all!





It wasn't that the kids got loads of candy (in fact, we didn't do any trick or treating, but Chloe was given a little bag of candy by a sweet Disney worker).

It was just one of those nights--we were just all together. We were celebrating one of our favorite holidays.

















As we walked around the World Showcase at Epcot, the UK band "Off Kilter" was playing. This is a band that plays cool music AND with a bag pipe in the mix to boot!












She stopped and listened and the more she listened, the more she had to move.









That's her, right in the middle.



Chloe was enthralled with the music!!! That's her in the center of the picture.





After the band stopped playing, Chloe dissolved into tears. She kept saying "want music, more music"! Luckily candy once again saved the day and after she munched a couple of sweet-tarts, she was able to move on.

Barry and I got some Cheddar Cheese soup at the Canadian stand. The Food and Wine Festival is still going on at Epcot, so we sampled a couple things. The soup was really yummy.

We also tried a meat and cheese wrap in Mexico and ate hummas at the Morrocan stand.

We left shortly before 9 so Chloe wouldn't get upset at the fireworks. She HATES fireworks!

But walking around and just enjoying the evening with the family was just perfect. Couldnt have been better.

Happy HALLOWEEEN!!!!