Halloween Parade 2010!

Friday night we had our second annual Halloween parade at the house! We have really been looking forward to it and it was so much fun! I took some pictures, but there are more coming from friends who were there. I will post those as I get them, but I wanted to go ahead and get this post up so that I can post about trick-or-treating on Halloween night (I'm a little crazy about things being in order! Ha!).

Kendall has been telling us for weeks now that she wanted to be a kitty cat, so we decided little Cooper could be a mouse. I put her in a grey shirt and pants and made some ears that I sewed onto one of her headbands. Then I cut a sponge and glued it on her sass - cheese! We think she was a pretty sweet mouse. :) She had her 2 month check-up Friday morning and got 3 vaccinations, so she was pretty sleepy all night.

Here's the cutest kitty cat! I wasn't sure she was going to keep her ears on, but for the most part she did! She loved her tail, too.

Such a ham!
Ready to get the parade started!

We had a "float" contest this year! Since the girls were a cat and a mouse, we decided to put Molly in the wagon too and make it like a pet store. We even got some things from Petco to help! We put Molly's bed in the wagon, but she didn't end up staying in there (we put her in the house - she was barking too much!). It worked out great though for Cooper to lay in Kendall's lap. She was asleep the whole time and Kendall was so sweet holding her and making sure she was safe. :)

Some of the parade participants! We counted up how many people (adults and kids) we had this year and it was 93!!! We invited friends to be IN the parade and friends to watch the parade. I was a little nervous that we would be taking over the neighborhood, but it really worked out ok. People dropped their wagons or bicycles off at the house and then parked down the street, past the parade route. Then some people brought chairs and sat along the route to cheer and let the kids throw candy to them. It was really soo cute!!

Lined up on the driveway, ready to start the parade!

Kendall got a little overwhelmed and needed to hold my hand. I will never get over that! Love it!

Noelle was so sweet to snap some pictures with our camera so I could pull Kendall and Randy could "direct." Here are Jillian (Snow White) and Sarah (Ariel)!

Ethan (Spiderman) and Ella (Minnie Mouse) rode on their gator.

Lawson, Aubrey, and Brynlee were the tin man, Dorothy, and the wicked witch!

Two of the three Mbaraka girls! Precious!

The parade is over- Cooper is still passed out!

After the parade we had cupcakes for the kids to decorate. Jeff helped entertain Kendall by wearing her ears. :)

And Kendall helped herself to LOTS of icing!

We also announced the winners of the float contest: Mikey Hintze got funniest for his Hulk costume, Alex Vrazel got most creative, the Reyes girls won the cutest award, and the Calhoun family of M&Ms won Best in Show! SO. MUCH. FUN!! Already can't wait til next year!