"Candy!!! Yay!!!"

Ryan and I started getting pretty worried earlier in the week when Brooks REFUSED to wear his costume. He picked out a Lightning McQueen outfit from a picture online, but once it got here, he didn't want anything to do with it. Our first battle with the costume was for a costume parade at Brooks's preschool. There were definitely crocodile tears at first, but he got into it once he saw all of his friends in their costumes. Then, just to keep us totally confused, he refused to take it off when the parade was over. Go figure! After the little costume fiasco, Brooks had an awesome Halloween! He figured out that people were giving him candy for absolutely no reason at all and he was overwhelmed with excitement! Everytime he would visit a house, he would throw down the candy he was eating and say, "Candy!!! Yay!!!" Then, he insisted that we "ope it!" Luckily, we had no candy left to take home because he ate little pieces of everything before he threw it away AND he was so exhausted from all of the going, that he zonked out pretty quick that night! We were very proud to be "Brooks's Pit Crew!"
He was not happy!

It got better when Daddy got there!

Lightning McQueen!

Downtown Trick or Treating

Balloons are always fun!

At the Spinks's Family Halloween party

Ryan enjoyed wrapping me up in toilet paper WAY too much!

The daddies had to eat a doughnut with vampire teeth!

Brooks liked trick or treating, but his little legs couldn't keep up!

We dropped him off in the driveways because he wanted to run like the big kids!

Brooks and his pit crew!