trick-or-treat!

ok, so long story short: russell was supposed to wear THIS:




but apparently he did not like the extra 20lbs of buzz lightyear on his body, so we went with something really simple (and really last minute).

we were going for the skeleton look from the karate kid (you should have seen how excited big russ got when i brought up the idea!) and this is how it turned out:

(click on the pictures for enlargement)

natalie asked to be snow white a couple of months ago and she had been very patiently and excitedly waiting for halloween to come so she could put on her dress with all her accessories and make-up. here is my beautiful princess:

tonight we went trick-or-treating with some very dear friends of ours, barry, alisha and ashton, and although russell was a little grouchy and natalie fell about 5 times - both of which didn't surprise us much - we had an awesome time. here are some pictures:

ashton is only 3 weeks younger than natalie and they have been friends since birth. ashton's daddy has been a good friend of russ's since about middle school (and i won't say how many years ago that was...)