I've got to be honest I've never been a fan of Halloween. Not just the celebration of darkness bit but as a kid my costumes were ALWAYS homemade and not the creative and cute homemade but the "well, what do we have here???" homemade. So I never really got into it.

This past weekend my heart has been softened to this strange little holiday we celebrate. Matt and I dressed up for a murder mystery party and had a ball. On Sunday we dressed our little miss up and took her trick or treating and we seriously had the most fun we have had in a long time.
We loved that she enjoyed wearing her ski suite of a costume.
We loved that she understood the drill after getting to collect treats at the first house.
We loved how thankful she was for each treat.
She loved walking to houses and knocking on the door.
She LOVED that everybody adored her. I'm not gonna lie, her parents liked that part as well.

One of our sweet friends gave her a bag of goldfish early into the night and so after she got a treat from somebody we would give her some goldfish. Matt made the point that Arabelle was under the impression that she just collected 5 pounds of goldfish and she couldn't have been happier.
All in all we had SO SO SO MUCH FUN!!!

So, I'll start with the ugly.
I was given the character of a Bounty Hunter for our Murder Mystery Party and Matt was given the character of Wyatt Earp.
Because I kinda dig this guy....I went with it.




While pulling together this costume my favorite part just might have been when I went to check out at the thrift store and the lady at the register told me what a beautiful shirt that was.



Now to the cuteness.....here's my Elephant, Mouse, Ant Eater of a little girl.