The Life of Riley: Ms. Emily Saves Halloween!

Okay...I won't even go into all my excuses why this post is SO late! :) It's the pictures! Uploading and arranging them is what drives the most time! Still...that's a really lame excuse! Better late than never though!

So Riley was "Buzz Year" for Halloween this year! OMG! It was SO adorable! I'm a total sucker for the Disney costumes now! They are so much better!! His wings even lit up! Ironically, Kelly and I bought his Halloween costume on a whim while we were in LA for The Price Is Right in September!

He caught on to the Halloween method pretty quickly this year! He just kept saying "Next House" and running to the next house! He didn't ever really get the "no porch light on" concept though! He was ADORABLE! Of course, I think that but he was! He would knock on the door and say TWick or TWeat before they answered, then he'd just stand there with his pumpkin held out. We went with Ethan and Emily again this year, so he had a blast chasing Ethan - I mean Batman - around. And they had fun playing in the backyard after we were done trick or treating.

He also had a Halloween Party at school too! Good times!

Kelly and his friends were 70s tennis players this year. McEnroe, Borg and Agassi..well Agassi was the 80s version, but old school tennis players. And that almost all went up in smoke when we lost our babysitter to a stomach bug the morning of the night we were supposed to go out! OMG! Talk about stressful! I was on the phone like a stock broker! You think it's bad when the Grinch steals Christmas....you should be around when Kelly misses Halloween! Especially after we had spent hours researching and shopping and comparing outfits starting as far back as August!!! The outfits may not look like much, but rest assured there was detail put into EVERY single piece of them! And this is so WEIRD! AFTER Halloween - John McEnroe wore the EXACT shirt Kelly is wearing in a commercial!!! What?!??! How did that happen?! So freaky! Kelly and I just looked at each other like NO WAY the first time we saw it on tv!! Kelly based it on a shirt he wore back in the 70's initially. Kelly's always a year ahead in his Halloween costumes - every time he dresses up as something - the movie comes out the next year or something like that.

After the babysitter freak out - I now realize how lucky my parents were to have my Grandparents right across the pasture when we were growing up! I'm not naive enough to not realize there was also a downside to being THAT close to your in-laws, but STILL! Kelly and I don't have that luxury when Riley's sick, or we need a sitter at the last minute, etc. And we can only depend on GiGi and Talana so many times before we use them up! We now have a teacher from Riley's school in our arsenal as well! And I plan to add another in hopes of avoiding these panic situations in the future! However, in this instance - Ms. Emily SAVED Daddy's Halloween! They happened to not have plans and technically trick or treating was the following night so she graciously offered to let Riley spend the night with her like he used to! And Riley had a blast as usual with Rowan and Camden! It was like he never missed a beat with them!

And Daddy had fun too! So all's well, ends well in the end!

Here's the pictures that caused me to be so late posting this blog! I just did them all in a row instead of organizing them within the text - that takes even LONGER! At least I got this posted before Halloween THIS year! LOL!