Trick-or-Treat!

I still can't believe Halloween has come and gone again. At the end of September, we told our kids that we needed to know what they wanted to be for Halloween by the beginning of October. Hayden was the first to decide. He wanted to be a Back-hoe. What? First of all, what 4-yr-old knows what a back-hoe is (as opposed to just calling it a tractor), second of all, how on earth was I going to pull that one off. I started getting ideas, and gathered up some boxes and spray paint. I got one coat of paint on, then we got some seriously cold, snowy weather. I finally was putting on the last coat on the Thursday morning before Halloween, because he needed his costume for preschool that day! It was so cold, that the paint cracked a little, but he didn't mind.

Bryson had decided quite a while before that he wanted to be a superhero, but he was having a difficult time deciding which one. Finally he settled on Iron Man. I usually like to make their costumes (as much as possible) but I knew this one would be a challenge, so as soon as I saw it at Walmart, I quickly scooped it up. It was hanging in his closet from the very beginning of October. He got to wear it to a Costume Birthday Party quite early in the month, so it got used enough to make it worth it! :)


Kaitlyn didn't take too long to decide what she wanted to be. She wanted to be Frankstein's monster, yet a girl version. EASY! I was so excited that she chose something so easy. We just went to DI and picked up a black skirt and blazer that were cheap enough to not care about, and cut the bottom of them to look ragged. The rest was just makeup and black hairspray!

And here's one that we took Friday morning before school... just playing around :)

Eryn was the one who struggled the most. In fact, she didn't decide on a costume until just a few days before. The unfortunate thing is that she wanted to be a bag of jelly beans. Cool! Too bad the stuff I bought didn't seem to work. We just couldn't figure out a logical way to do it where she could wear it to school. She ended up not even going on Friday, because she was sick, but we decided to just have her be a vampire (she did feel better on Saturday). We just used whatever we had on hand. She did mention that she was starting to feel a little old for trick-or-treat, so this was her last year for sure! She's just getting too grown up.

Here's my "Clark Kent" and my little monsters. So cute!

I had to dress up too, so I was "Harriet Potter." HEHE

Here we go!! Time for some trick-or-treat fun.

Eryn went with us to a few houses, then met up with her friends to do the rest. It was such great weather. I was grateful! I was really afraid it would be nasty, after the week we had with snow and wind! The kids definitely got WAY too much candy, but they had so much fun.

After hitting our entire street, we headed over to see Grandpa Grace. He was looking great, and it was fun to visit for just a little bit before heading over to my parents' house for a few more houses and some yummy Taco Soup! It was a great Halloween!

And poor Hayden. He was completely worn out. He fell asleep on the way home.