A well costumed little guy!

With it being Trey's first Halloween I of course had to buy all the cute little onesies I saw while out shopping!  And then of course had to take pictures of them all.  So here it is, Trey's line-up of Halloween outfits topped off by his actual costume of course!

We begin with the typical "My First Halloween" onesie.

And then the pumpkin face onesie

I think this one was one of my favorites.  Mummy sure does love Trey!

And then we have the skeleton jammies with candy in the belly, so cute!  Trey's little buddy Oliver had matching ones.  It is so funny to watch Trey interact with Oliver right now.  It is going to be fun watching these two grow up!  By the time we got home from playing with Oliver Trey was PASSED out!

Here is the real deal!  The actual Halloween costume.  I loved this cute little lion outfit I found online.  It was a little tough to get a picture of Trey though!  He kept staring up at his main or down at his big paws.  These are the best I got from my attempts!

Halloween Treats!

Ok so I think I can easily say that I got carried away with baking Halloween treats this year.  It is all because of Pinterest!  That site is so addicting and I kept finding things I wanted to try.  So needless to say, what was going to be one batch of cookies to take to our Halloween party tonight turned into 2 kinds of cookies, brownies, and cupcakes for Roy's work.  Oops!

First up was the original batch of cookies I was going to make.  Chocolate chip Oreo stuffed cookies!  I used a Halloween Oreo to help make it festive.  Recipe was found on the Picky Palate blog.

Then I found a recipe for those wonderfully delicious sugar cookies that you can buy at the store in seasonal colors.  I had to make them into Halloween cutout cookies!  Recipe can be found on Sweet Pea's Kitchen blog.  If you try and make them take note that I did have to add an extra cup of flour from what the recipe called for to dry the dough out and be able to roll it.  I am guessing it could be because it is more humid in Arkansas than wherever she is?  They turned out great though!

And then for the brownies!  Any old brownie recipe will do.  Then add some chocolate frosting on top and crumbled up Oreos.  I trimmed the bottom off of a mint milano cookie to make it stand up better.  Used some decorating gel to write "RIP" and added a pumpkin.  And presto! A graveyard brownie!

Then Roy comes home from work with Halloween cake mix and frosting and wants cupcakes to take to work.  What the heck?  So these are not from scratch, they are a box.  But I fancied them up a bit by adding a spiderweb decoration to the top.  He forget to get cupcake liners though and I only had 12 regular size ones at home, but I did find some mini cupcake liners.  So he got 12 big cupcakes and 24 mini ones.  It worked out!

Happy trick-or-treating to all!  More pictures to come later of costumes and such from this weekend's festivities!

Pumpkin Patch

Well I couldn't let Trey's first Halloween get past me without a visit to the pumpkin patch!  After much online research and asking around at work I decided to head to the McGarrah Farms Patch.  I didn't really care much about the activities since Trey is too young to do the corn maze.  I just wanted one that was good for pictures.  And this one was!  It is crazy how many pumpkin patches and corn mazes there are in Arkansas!  Here are some pics from our trip!

This will be fun to take his picture next to each year.  Although the crooked and bad attempt at fancy handwriting drives me crazy!  You think they would be offended if I brought them a new sign next year?  Haha!

Such a big boy!  Standing up with some help from the pumpkins

But all he was interested in was the grass!

And the straw....

Finally looking at the camera!  It's tough work to get this guys attention!  Notice those two teeth on the bottom.  So cute!