A Life Full of Love: Trick-or-Treat

Since this was Lilly's first Halloween, I had to go all out in dressing her up and taking tons of pictures of her! I guess I'm just the typical first time mom! Jordan and I went all out in celebrating our first holiday with our daughter. I really wanted to make her costume, but since I'm not a pro at sewing, I decided to make her a cute little Halloween tutu and bow instead. First,we took her to the Dallas Arboretum for some fall pictures when she was only 3 weeks old. We thought this was a good idea, until we saw tons of crazy kids running around and all we could think about was germs and getting stampeded by 5 year olds. We survived and got some great pictures with our baby girl.

Then, my mom and I took Lilly to a pumpkin patch to take even more pictures of our little spook. :) Once again, I'm not sure that I thought this through enough. Lilly had no interest in staying still for some pictures while she was getting poked by straws of hay.

Finally, on Halloween night, Jordan and I decided to take Lilly to my parents house where we went trick-or-treating with my brother, Sam, and our cousins. I think I had more fun than Lilly or Jordan did. I was so proud to be pushing her stroller and to be stopped by people who complimented on how cute Lilly and he outfit was. I think we started a family tradition by going over to my mom's house and trick-or-treating with our family. There were so many kids and friendly neighbors that I feel like Lilly will have a blast doing this again when she's older.

She was definitely a TREAT to be around this Halloween season! I think next year, I'm going to dress her up like the little pumpkin that she is! :-)