Happy Halloween Hadley!

I have always loved Halloween! Dressing up in character, theme parties, candy... what's not to love?! Growing up I used to rent every horror movie on the shelves of Blockbuster and loved getting scared with friends inside a haunted house! But as I've aged and definitely even more so now that I'm a Mom I have a very low tolerance for "scary". Looks like I'll be sticking to Hocus Pocus from now on! :)

This Halloween was sure to be entirely different now that we are parents. We were so very excited to celebrate Hadley's 1st Halloween! Of course we spent many an evening scouring the web for the perfect costume for Miss H. We definitely wanted something cute and snuggly this year and although there were many contenders we decided to go with a Black Kitty Cat theme! Cliche? Perhaps! Adorable? Absolutely!

I'd say we hit it out of the ballpark! The prettiest little kitty cat I ever did see! Unfortunately earlier that day a neighborhood cat came to our back porch. We pressed Hadley up against the window for a good look. 

Scared her to death and she burst out crying! Great....black cats terrify her! Fantastic costume choice, Mom.

Eh, the good thing about this age is that you can dress your kid up in whatever you want without them being any the wiser! Meow! ;) 

Purrr-fect! Happy Meow-lloween! OK, I'll stop... :)

Getting her kitty cat face makeup done was quite the process...

She thought that I was trying to feed her and thus kept trying to eat the paint brush...

After we were all painted and costumed up, we drove out to Plano to our friends, the Butler's, house for a Halloween party! Their neighborhood does extreme trick-or-treating so it is always a fun time!

Hadley loved watching the trick or treaters, but was even more intrigued by the giant bowl of candy! 

We had such a wonderful time! Experiencing these moments through Hadley's eyes as a first timer is truly magical!

We left the party at a pretty reasonably hour, but our little party girl decided she'd stay up until 10:30 last night! This actually worked out purrfectly because she self-adjusted herself for Daylight Savings time! Good Kitty! :) 

Happy 1st Halloween Hadley! Mommy & Daddy sure love our pretty itty bitty kitty!