Johnny Gaudreau’s two youngsters honored their late father with their 2024 Halloween costume alternative.
“Costumes Daddy wished ????,” Johnny’s spouse, Meredith Gaudreau, wrote through her Instagram Story on Friday, November 1, alongside a video of daughter Noa, 2, and son Johnny Jr., 8 months, dressed up as Toy Story characters for the vacation. Meredith’s submit additionally featured the tune “You Acquired a Pal in Me” which was featured within the first Pixar movie.
Noa went because the beloved cowgirl Jessie. She rocked a gown that featured a cow print skirt and a white and yellow western shirt. She donned a brilliant purple cowboy hat to finish the look.
“Love my woman a lot. So happy with her,” Meredith wrote in a subsequent story set to the tune “Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl.”
Johnny Jr. opted for Buzz Lightyear and had a spot-on onesie matching the house ranger’s type. Noa and Johnny Jr. spent Halloween trick-or-treating with their cousins.
Halloween appeared totally different for the Gaudreaus this yr as they proceed to mourn Johnny. Us Weekly confirmed in August that Johnny and his youthful brother, Matthew Gaudreau, had been struck by a automobile and killed whereas they had been using bikes in Oldmans Township, New Jersey. The motive force of the automobile, Sean M. Higgins, was arrested and charged with two counts of vehicular murder. He’s suspected of being drunk on the time of the incident.

The brothers had been on the town to have a good time their sister Katie Gaudreau’s marriage ceremony. Katie’s nuptials had been postponed following the tragedy. Johnny was 31 and Matthew was 29. (Matthew is survived by spouse Madeline Gaudreau who’s at the moment pregnant with their first baby, due in December.)
Since Johnny’s passing, Meredith, who introduced she is anticipating child No. 3, has been candid about her grief. Days earlier than Halloween, Meredith penned an emotional notice in honor of her husband after his crew the Columbus Blue Jackets hosted an emotional dedication for him earlier that month.
“John, we love you a lot,” Meredith wrote through Instagram on Tuesday, October 29. “I develop increasingly happy with you each single day, (I’ve for the reason that day I met you) and it continues regardless that you’re in heaven. Thanks for giving me our hockey household, our youngsters and such a lovely life as your spouse.”
Meredith shared a sequence of snaps of her and her youngsters on the occasion the place the little ones donned their dad’s jersey.
“You might be and can all the time be my all the things. I like you a lot,” she continued. “I like you extra on daily basis. I all the time informed you there are not any phrases to explain my love for you. There simply aren’t. ‘You understand how a lot I like you, proper?’ ?.”