Trick or Treating

Halloween is such a fun time of year. As our costume box is in storage, we had to come up with all new costumes and try to do so fairly inexpensively. I think we spent under $20 for all 5 kids, so I think we did pretty well. We had a Winter Fairy A Sniper (against my better judgement) Oh, and this picture is taken AFTER I shrank his sniper hat to Melody size, so he looks less imposing than originally intended. That is the down side of having a youth group party a couple days before Halloween.

A pirate, though we have a pirate a lot of the time. He was making "pirate faces" for me and I rather like this one.

I still get to choose one costume, thus our adorable little Mermaid. I found the costume idea online and Elizabeth's keen eye for fashion located the fin fabric leotard at the thrift store. Melody even won 2nd place for her costume at Kevin's office Halloween party. She looks forward to spending her gift certificate.

Daddy and his little Mermaid

And to finish it off we had a Barbie. She created her own costume and originally was supposed to be a "Sparkle Princess." Then for school they had to dress as a book character AND bring the book. So... thus the Barbie Princess which we had the book for. I think the costume was really just an excuse to wear eye shadow loudly and proudly for a few days. One of the best Halloween choices we made was to attend the Halloween party at Daddy's office where there was a pumpkin carving contest. We didn't "win" any prizes, but the fact that our girls got to carve pumpkins and I didn't have to buy them or clean up the mess was a win! They boys had no desire to get creative or messy.

The worst Halloween decision we made was to try and go to The Grove church's Trunk n' Treat event. We live a stone's throw from there and the kids had been seeing the signs for a month, so they wanted to check it out. I have heard there was over 10,000 people there and I was underimpressed with the organization. It was basically mass chaos for very little candy. But, we have given the kids a very vivid demonstration of why we will avoid it in the future.

The other best decision we made was to go Trick or Treating with our friends in their neighborhood. Several other friends also joined in. The kids were hyped so we walked over there and Daddy met us there with the van so we didn't need to walk home. The kids had a great time with friends, brought home way too much candy and we all had a great time with our friends.