Halloween

With Avery's overwhelming obsession with horses lately, it was pretty easy to come up with a Halloween costume for her...a cowgirl of course.  The costume itself was made up of things we already had and things that we bought that would easily be reused for daily wear or otherwise.  We got her some really cute pink cowboy boots that I'm absolutely in love with!  I was so excited to show off those boots, and luckily we got a few opportunities to do so.  On Friday afternoon, there was trick or treating at the businesses downtown, so we met Jeremy at work, showed Avery off to all of his co-workers and headed downtown where Avery made off with quite the loot.

We stopped at the bank that just happened to have the teller line "dressed up" like an old west town.  Avery posed in the Saloon doors!

On Monday, Halloween day, we made our usual trip to Hyvee...have I mentioned how much I love that store!  I'm not sure that Avery appreciated it as much as I did, but I really like that it's indoors and the fact that they hand out things other than candy...like FRUIT!  Avery, however, remembered that she got loads of candy when we went out on Friday, so she was disappointed with some of the things at Hyvee.

She managed to get her cowgirl pose down with no coaching at all.  She even has a Tootsie Roll in her cheek posing as her "chew."

After Hyvee, we visited Jackie and Jason then to Terry and Teresa's.  Avery really liked to hand out the candy to the other kids, which Terry and Teresa were more than glad to have her do (they live in the best neighborhood for Halloween).

Teresa even made Avery a little goodie bag with necklaces, bracelets and vampire teeth!