Halloween Happiness

Since we moved back to Utah, I was planning on bundling up the kids for Trick-or-Treating, but we were pleasantly suprised that we didn't have to. It's a good thing too, because I didn't know how I was going to convince Hailey that she had to put a coat over here ballerina costume.

A slight variation from her "light pink ballerina" costume last year, Hailey was a fairy ballerina this year. Well . . . the fairy part she decided to throw on just before walking out the door to trick-or-treat. She appeared at other Halloween parties as a regular ballerina.


Example of the pre-wing costume below . . . because I know you were all dying to know the details of our costume picking process. It's very important around here. But the thing that really made the costume was the beautiful skirt that Aunt Amber made for Hailey! Thanks Am!

And then we have little Clark Kent! The thing that makes this costume so great (besides the fact that it only cost me $3 to make) is the fact that Tanner didn't know he was wearing a costume so he didn't feel the need to tear it off. For some reason he's not into the dress-up thing the way Hailey is . . . go figure?

It was fun to be at home this year to carve pumpkins with my family. We understand that pumpkin carving (much like Easter egg dyeing) typically turns into a 2+ hour art project. Mary and I kept eachother company while we fussed over our pumpkins for a couple of hours and Mom finished her's up in about 20 minutes. Maybe that makes her the real artist.

Mary's very cool dragon and Mom great jack-o-lantern face!

Just like always, I'd rather Halloween be cute than scary.

Tanner was so funny trick-or-treating as a first-timer! He would pick a piece of candy at one house, but wouldn't let it out of his tight little fist. He'd get a piece for the other hand at the next house but wouldn't let us put either one in his bag. Sometimes we would manage to sneek one out of his hand to put it into his bag when he was ready to grab a new piece of candy, or somtimes he would just drop the one in his hand in the new bowl of candy and get a different piece. I'm sure in another year or two, he'll get the concept down and be running from house to house!

We didn't trick-or-treat long but the kids still made a good hawl, which of course, the 5 adults in the house have been helping out with. About a week after Halloween, Hailey took a look in her candy bag and started to cry. "How did this happen?" she said, "I want MUCH more candy than this!"