Happy Halloween!

We had a fantastic Halloween this year.  My kids were so very excited to go trick-or-treating.  It was even better that Daddy was able to join us this year.  Halloween is during football season and Daddy usually has to be at work, but it fell on a Sunday this year, wee hoo! 

This year we had an Asian Princess.  I was excited about putting dark red lipstick on her (to contrast her porcelain skin) and the fancy hairpiece that went with the costume, but she lost the hairpiece and she can't stand the feel of lipstick on her lips.  So, here we are, my very beautiful Asian princess!  She didn't need the lipstick, however the hairpiece would have been a lot nicer than the scarf I tied to the back of her hair.

Next, a very cute Bugs Bunny.  We had an issue with the people I bought the costume from.  They forgot to send the headpiece, which was a huge Bugs Bunny face, that sat on top of his head.  They had sent it (after I reported it missing) priority and it never arrived!  Some where out there is a rabbit head in a box.  T didn't seem to mind.  I ended up making some rabbit ears which he ended up not wearing (except for our photo shoot).

Our Hippo is back for a second year in a row!  P really loves his hippo costume.  That was fine with me!  He is so darn cute in it.

Next, we had E go as a Lion.  We've had this costume in storage.  Thank God we are able to repeat some of these costumes we spent money on!  I personally love this costume, because there was a button on his left ear that, when pressed, would let out a mighty roar!  The other great thing about this costume is how cute E looked when he was running from house to house in it.  This little body with this huge head!  E didn't remember what Halloween was all about (CANDY) and this year he was pleasantly surprised by all the free candy people were giving away.  I think Halloween has made it into his long term memory now.

And lastly, B was Santa Claus.  Each of my kids were Santa Claus as a baby.

They started with so much energy.  They ran to each house.  Then they slowed down, dragging their bags, complaining how heavy they were and then they decided they wanted to head back to the house.  This was after going around two blocks!  They each had three pieces of candy and then off to bed for school the next day.

Here are some pictures of the carved pumpkins.

A carved her own pumpkin, the ghost with candlelight.  She did a superb job.  I carved the other two.  I like happy, friendly faces.  We had a fun evening carving and scraping out pumpkin seeds with all the goopy pulp.

I hope everyone else had a great Halloween!