Halloween 2016 here we come! Okay, so Jatin and I have been reading and watching all the Harry Potter Films again 😉 so it seemed like a pretty natural choice for him to transform into Harry Potter for Halloween this year! We bought his Hogwarts robe from the costume shop, and then painted an old clip on tie from his closet red and gold and I knocked out the lenses from a cheap pair of gold rimmed glasses and finally we made our own wands out of rolled up paper, hot glue and paint. AMAZING! His costume was awesome and he really did great acting the part and casting spells when needed!

Aaniku has been showing a lot of love for our car collection and the need for speed is apparent so we popped on Jatin’s costume from years ago to make Aaniku the cutest Lightning McQueen of all time. With her naughty expressions and carefree attitude she rocked her outfit! The kids went to school and participated in their halloween parade and festivities. My favorite pictures and videos below.

That evening we had the usual group of friends over for trick o treating in our neighborhood. We started off the evening with a little bit of dancing to thriller (of course!), and once everyone arrived we had some delicious sugary treats (it is Halloween after all) and then ventured off into the neighborhood to collect king sized everything (our neighbors spoil us). Aanika was such a trooper. Really did well and walked for about 30 minutes….and then she looked at Nick and said “Daddy I need to go home, I’m tired…” so we left the group a bit early and let her dig into her candy before the rest of the monkey’s ended up back at home. Awesome Halloween. Spoooooky and fun!