Our Halloween

Last week, Na'u and I went to Maui to watch Kayla get baptized. It was such a special day for her. Kayla, you looked so pretty in white and we are so happy we could be apart of it!

Congratulations Kayla!

Since we were on Maui and Halloween was the day after Kayla's big day, I figure we spend it with lots of cousins. It was Na'ulei's first Halloween and we had so much fun. I wanted Na'u to have a really good costume and was totally racking my brain to come up with something. I was inspired at a UH football game by one of the band members. Here she is....

...our little SPAM MUSUBI!

Here's the back view, nori and all.

If you don't get it...

....maybe this view is better :).

I had to dress up too. To go along with the theme, I was the musubi/sushi chef.

I think we made a great pair :)!

First, we went to Lia's brother's house to go trick-or-treating. Here are all the kids that went. We had a Sleeping Beauty (Teija), Selina Gomez (Kayla), a cheerleader (Lynea), army men (Kainalu and Kamalei), cats (some friends), a musubi (Na'u), and a Tinkerbell (Kailea).

We even had a cute Little Red Riding Hood (Miss My) with Red Riding Hood's Grandma (Lia).

We went house to house around 6:00pm and I guess that was a little early because not too many people were handing out candy. Na'u loved her little pumpkin pail, which she held on to super tight. We followed the other kids up to the door to collect the goods. It wasn't 'til a few houses later that things were in her bucket. Then, all she wanted to do was reach in and examine each one :).

After that, we went to the Makawao Halloween party. While waiting in line for the yummy chili and corn bread dinner, this Chinese man started tickling Na'u with his beard. She was cracking up. The Chinese man calls himself the "Hawaiian" Hypnotist...but he looks more Chinese to me.

After dinner, the kiddies were let loose to go trunk-or-treating. The kids went round and round until all the candy was gone. First round, I held onto Na'u while she held on to her pumpkin.

Second time, I let her walk around.

To my surprise, she actually walked up to a few trunks on her own holding out her pumpkin for the parents to put candy in. Too cute!

After walking and getting enough candy, she went to a grassy area to continue examining each candy...making sure it was the real deal :). She was very happy.

This was Na'ulei by the time we got home. I guess I should have told her that collecting free goodies would be exhausting :).

Thank you Maui Tuitele's and Akinaka's for a great vacation and letting us stay at your house. It was a nice change of scenery. Hopefully we can make it another time with Cameron.