The Richardsons: Happy Halloween!

The first holiday of what I consider to be the "holiday season" is here! But before I say anything about this year I just want to post a few pictures from last year's Halloween, Ryleigh's first. I hadn't started this blog yet at that time, so I want to look back and be all nostalgic : ) Join me!

The day before Halloween...16 days old

Halloween day, with Momma.

Our happy, new little family...Lucy was still getting used to her little sister

admiring the pumpkins

Yaya was still here visiting with us

Bat Ryleigh...all 9 lbs & 21 inches of her!!

Ryleigh and Daddy, passing out candy

exhausted!

So cute, my little munchkin!! I can't believe how tiny she was. Sigh. This year I can use her to get candy though : ) hahahahaa (insert evil laugh here).

She had multiple Halloween "outfits" this year, so we started yesterday. We went to church and Ryleigh modeled this cute little number her Gammy bought her...

I'm sorry about the brightness from the background, but she is a mover and you gotta catch her when you can to capture a picture! So this is the best I have...but isn't it adorable? Her shirt has a witch on it and says "here comes trouble"...and that adorable skirt with her little black sweater tights?!?! Ahhhhhhh! I wasn't able to snag any more photos because I had to work yesterday so right after church I was outta there. But Daddy said she was extra cuddly and he was able to capture Ryleigh in rare form....

snuggling!

I mean, she always snuggles her little pink snuggle guy (you can see him off in the bottom corner), but you're pretty lucky if you can get her to stay put long enough to snuggle AND fall asleep with you! She's at the point now where you can say to her "Ryleigh, is it naptime?" or "Lets go to bed" and she just takes your finger, leads you to the stairs and right on up to her crib where she grabs her snuggle guy and curls right up. That's great and all, but I miss the snuggles : ( I am glad that Daddy got to enjoy those snuggles, I know how much he loves them.

So that leads us to today...Halloween day! Ryleigh adorned her next Halloween outfit given to her by Aunt Lori for her birthday. Isn't she just Bootiful?!

Then we dressed up Lucy. She's worn the same shirt the past 3 Halloweens, but she really does hate it so I figure, why spend the money on a new one she's just going to hate too. Plus, I lovingly took the sleeves off this shirt using seam rippers (let me repeat, seam rippers, not just scissors!) so that her broad bulldog chest could fit into it!

It was then time to eat dinner. Daddy has a tradition in his family to eat chili with hot dogs every Halloween, so we like to try to keep that going since we never get to spend Halloween with family. I made the chili (using a great recipe from The Neely's from Food Network), and was then informed that the hot dogs are supposed to go IN the chili. My bad. But in my defense, that's just weird, and the hubby doesn't like beans in his chili either, so I was already compromising my chili there, so I was not about to add hot dogs into my it. So we ate chili with hot dogs on the side.

After dinner we skyped with Yaya for a little bit, but then it was time to Trick-Or-Treat, which Mommy & Daddy kind of dropped the ball a little bit. We started out walking around the block, but we noticed were the ONLY people. Eventually we ran into a neighbor that told us there is a neighborhood parade at the other end of the subdivision and everyone starts down there and works there way to our side. So we were a little late getting to the houses, BUT we did get some candy and we did get to show off our cute costume! Cut us some slack, we're newbies.

our babies, ready for a night of Trick-or-Treating

Mommy's little monster (clearly she obeys my finger points)

Daddy's little monster

and we're off!

a true working Daddy, manning the baby, the doggy and the blackberry

completely loungin' in her pink buggy...leg up, slouched back, total relaxation

Ryleigh had lots of fun Trick-or-Treating, especially giving everyone hugs and trying to walk into their houses. She did actually manage to successfully get into a neighbors house, but it was OK because Daddy got a beer out of it ; ) She also got lots of kisses from a dog the size of a moose and loved it when Mommy poured M&M's into the cup holder of her buggy. All in all, it was an exciting first experience for all of us and we're excited to keep it up for many years to come! Lucy may or may not agree with that statement.