Halloween

the fam

The Sun-Maid raising girl and Waluigi...the perfect pair, kinda :)

Lexie and me; this was her first costume, her whole fam was zombies.

Lexie's second costume, the biker chick. She went all out!

Ariel and Super Mario

Ariel with attitude!

Sweet Abby!

The kids before trick or treating. They are all so cute!

I am so proud of myself right now. I am actually posting Halloween pictures BEFORE Christmas is here! Woohoo!!

This year we started celebrating Halloween early. Our ward Trunk or Treat was the weekend before Halloween so there was pressure to have our costumes ready early! Isaac knew he wanted to be Super Mario from the time he was introduced to the Wii. Abby knew she wanted to be some sort of princess, and when I took her shopping she decided she wanted to be Princess Ariel from The Little Mermaid. She was so cute when I asked her what shoes she wanted to wear with her costume. She stared at me for a second in thought and then she said, "Oh no! Mommy, I'm going to have a tail!!! I can't wear shoes!" She was seriously distraught by the thought of not being able to wear shoes!! I had to assure her that she was going to be Ariel when she turned into a human and didn't have a tail anymore!

Richie decided to go along with the Mario theme and was Waluigi, the more sinister version of Luigi from the Wii MarioKart videogame. Some people didn't know who he was and thought he was just dressing in purple for fun! Poor Richie!

I have had my costume planned for months. Everytime the kids watch a show on PBS, at the end they usually have a commercial for Sun-Maid Raisins with the Raisin girl. EVERYTIME, the kids point and say "Mommy, that's you!!" Do I really look like her??? Who knows! But I thought I'd be funny and dress up as her. The kids LOVED IT!!

Other than the trunk or treat, we also went to a friends house, the Jacobs, for a Halloween party. And everyone got babysitters so there were no kids there! It was a lot of fun to get a night to hang out with just adults!

Then on Halloween we went to Rob and Lexie's house to go Trick or Treating in their neighborhood and then eat the loot and lots of yummy snacks Lexie made. It was so fun to watch the kids trick or treat with all their friends! They were definitely pros at knocking on those doors by the end of the night! And once again, my camera was acting up, so Lexie took almost all these pics for me! I love her!