Halloween 2011

We had an amazing Halloween, Isla was ecstatic when she realized that people will just give you tons of candy and treats for a smile and a "hi"

Our great friends Janae and Boston came over and we decorated our Halloween bags with footprints that were really ghosts. Now Isla thinks that paint is just for the bottoms of her feet. 

We got some cute pumpkins from Isla's Great-Great-Grandpa Stuke's own garden, and we decorated the front porch really spooky with spider webs, a spider named Frank, and some strobe lighting! 

Isla is really getting the hang of saying "cheese" when the camera comes out.

Our first stop was Grandma Gaye's house for the annual Halloween pizza party. Unfortunately right as Isla and I rang the doorbell to say "Trick or Treat" Isla slipped and fell face first on the porch step and started bleeding. But no worries, Grandma came to the rescue with treat bags and pizza!

Gardner girls were dressed in their finest as Tinker Bell and beautiful fairy princess (I can't remember what the exact name was for Aliya, they always have the funnest names that somehow involve a Disney princess character)

Next stop was at Daddy's work, Aunt/Grandma Helen had a nice sized treat bag for all her adopted grandchildren! Isla is getting to know Helen is the one to know at the office, she has a special treat drawer and will give her anything she wants!

 Helen gave her this Tucan Sam bird that's a puppet, candy, a Halloween straw, and these spooky glasses. All of which Isla is still playing with to this day. Especially the glasses, Isla wears them in the bathtub the WHOLE time she's bathing.

So you may be wondering, what's Isla's costume??? Well the thing is Isla LOVES stuffed animals. But she wasn't really into wearing them. She was a Panda Bear, but she wanted to hold and cuddle her panda bear the whole morning. So after finally realizing that other kids wear costumes we got to put it on for some trunk-or-treating and trick-or-treating!

I love the picture up above because Micah told me that this is the exact face I make everytime I pick Isla up, and I'm so grateful he snapped a pic at the right time so I could see it. She really does make me so happy :)

 We headed over to the trunk-or-treating at our church, and they put on a great party. There was music blasting, really good decorations, and tons and tons of candy!

Our friends the webbs had a great family costume: Damsel in Distress, A Dragon, and a Knight in Shining Armor! Haha

So we kind of got a little lazy with Micah's costume, I was a zookeeper with my animals...Micah just stuffed Isla's giraffe in his hoodie and called it good :)

 BFF Boston was a cute little sock monkey and helped Isla show some dancing moves off in the parking lot:

Isla was loving this blow-up Frankenstein, She kept wanting to touch and give him kisses:

A rare picture of the momma's and their babies:

After a couple more neighborhoods Isla was ready to dig in to her candy stash! She loves popcorn, skittles, and whoppers and was so delighted to open up the bag!

 Uncle Poo-Bear was close by so he could eat some of the hard-earned candy:

Good thing Isla loves brushing her teeth...because our candy stash got low pretty quick with daddy, mommy, and uncle poo bear around to help her!