More from Halloween 2020

Halloween was so fun this (last) year. It's amazing how much my opinion changes on this "holiday" when I have little kids to celebrate with. And our little honeybee absolutely soaked up this special weekend to the fullest. She played the part of the cute little bee buzzing through the neighborhood on trick-or-treat night, and her excitement level every time she saw a lit up jack-o-lantern on a front porch all season long encompassed everything that's great about kids seeing the world - or part of it - for the first time. And my whole thought process around Halloween - young kids or not - is to make a party out of it for the adults, too. A little bit harder to do in 2020 with all things pandemic, but luckily our weather was mild enough -- and Halloween fell on a Saturday -- so our neighborhood was socially-distanced abuzz with adults mingling in the middle of every street - beverages and snacks in hand - tables set up on driveways for candy grabbing - and lots of much-needed reconnecting in the Covid fresh air. ;)

This was the first Halloween that neither of the boys dressed in costume, but they had a great time, too - helping Kaitlyn enjoy the occasion, enjoying treats of their own, and relishing in all the extra social and community time.

We kicked off our Halloween weekend with pumpkin carving on Friday night.

Kaitlyn wasn't all that shy with diving into her pumpkin and though she didn't care at all about the design on the pumpkins -- she did love the way they looked all lit up.

I'll let you guess which pumpkin belongs to which child of mine. ;)

And pictures of trick-or-treat night. Our neighborhood did a FANTASTIC job making sure the celebration was both safe -- and spirit-filled for everyone. I went into the night thinking Kaitlyn would maybe make a few stops at the houses on all sides of us and then call it good... but she stayed out for almost an hour! Those two little legs walked our full neighborhood with confidence and charm, and my favorite part of the night was when she proudly introduced me to everyone we saw in the street: "This is MY mommy!!!" Gosh, I love this girl.

Halloween 2020 || Our Sweet Little Honeybee

All last summer our sweet little Kaitlyn was obsessed with bumble bees. Only in her eyes, every bug was a bumble bee - ant, fly, bee, insect -- all of them were bumble bees. :) So when I spotted this costume on my hunt for the perfect getup for our girl, I knew this one had to be a front runner. And then I actually let her choose - between this one and another one - and she chose, of course, the bumble bee outfit. 

So when one gorgeous Saturday October night fell upon us, we strolled the UNI campus in full costume with efforts to capture our girl in her costume and all her glory. We never know what Halloween night will actually be like as it relates to weather, and nothing is more depressing than having the cutest costumes covered up in coats and hats. So... I always make sure to take costume pictures early to make sure we capture some good ones! 

Sis looked cute as can beeeee strolling through campus and was pretty proud of herself and her little bumble bee wand. And the UNI onlookers that saw her buzzing by? Well, let's just say she could have stopped a live Panther in its tracks... ;)