Halloween 2011

I must say I'm happy that Halloween has come and gone. I put so much into making the holidays fun for the kids that I completely wear myself out. Neil is out trick or treating with the kids and I am so happy to sit down and relax for a little bit with no noise. Just me and the computer and every couple or minutes a ring at the doorbell. The house is a disaster. I'll get to that tomorrow, maybe. I think I may take one day off. I have no extra kids tomorrow so I may really lay low. I love Halloween though. It's been a great month, just busy. Tonight we had our trunk or treat and the Primary was in charge so I was busy making soups. Luckily I came home with two empty crock pots. We had a great turn out. I love making the kids costumes. This year we went with the star wars theme. You'd think their costumes would be easy but there are no real patterns for the accessories and I don't do well without a pattern so it took an extra long time and a lot of trial and error. I always regret not being able to take the patterning and costume class while at BYU but I had to graduate or I would have been kicked out, something about having too many credits. Good thing I had extra fabric. Our bedroom became my sewing room so you can hardly walk in there. I have a bad habit about not cleaning up until I'm completely done with a project. It drives Neil crazy but after 9 years of marriage he's realized that's the way I am and it's not going to change so he either cleans up himself or just doesn't say anything. He's just not allowed to touch my sewing stuff so the room has been a mess for 3 weeks. I was debating on whether to have Lucy be Princess Leia or Queen Amidala and ended up going with Amidala because the boys were all characters from Episode 1 so she matched them. We went to Target to get our pictures taken to put on our Halloween collage wall and they turned out pretty cute. I had to go get Sam tonight so he could go to the bathroom and on our way back out he just gushed about how much he loved Halloween and how it's his favorite holiday. That's my boy! They're now sitting down going through all their candy and giving Neil all their Almond Joy bars. Let the sugar high begin. We still have to do baths. I think Mikey's skin and hair is permanently tinted a little red with all the paint he's had on this last week. It's always a little let down when a holiday is over. I think we're going to take it easy for the month of November and then rev things up for December and Christmas. I've got to start planning. Here's some pictures from our last couple days/nights in October.

Day 28: School carnival and dinosaur park

Day 29: Picture Taking. The boys were totally getting into character before our photo shoot. They were really putting on a show for the customers.

Obi Wan Kenobi

Darth Maul

Darth Sidious

The Uncooperative Queen Amidala

Get one last evil shot in before it all comes off

Day 31: Trunk or Treat . . . Parade

Trick or Treating

Queen Amidala. I hate that I didn't iron her costume. It had gotten thrown on the floor Saturday night and never a thought was given until it was time to go tonight. Oh well. She still looked cute.

A lot of the Primary kids came up to me and asked what I was and I said just goofy. I hadn't planned on dressing up but at the last minute I thought I better be fun being as I'm helping to host the trunk or treat so I pulled out these overalls from college (a little tight) and threw on a wig and some freckles. Neil followed suit. I had wanted us to be Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker but I ran out of time.