Halloween

The kids were asked to wear costumes for story book characters to school on Halloween. I had other costumes already picked out and had to come up with an idea that was easy and CHEAP. A friend did this with her triplets, so I thought why not give it a go, and paid $2 for the blue hair spray. The kids loved it and had a great time getting to dress up in different costumes.

 We carved our pumpkins for family night the Monday before Halloween. They only had a little mold inside by Halloween, ya gross, but totally worth it for the kids to see their faces they drew for a whole week! Eden's is the far right and it is a cat with whiskers. Kael's is next with the triangle eyes. Then, Elara asked for Olaf the snowman from Frozen, so Derek did is best, and then the far left is a monster with one eye that Derek came up with. The kids loved it and loved drawing their own designs. Each holiday just gets more and more fun each year.

We had a ward trunk or treat the Saturday before Halloween which was about 6 days before the actual day. Derek was working and I took the 3 by myself. It was a crazy night and the kids got LOTS of candy.

 Elara on the left was Minnie Mouse, Hadley as Cinderella, Eden as an ice cream cone, and Kael as Anakin Skywalker podracing!

 Eden and her best buddy Hadley. They moved from Utah just about the same time as us, and go to preschool together and are in primary together. They hug every time they see each other and love having each other!

I loved the kids costumes this year. We went to a second hand store and said they could pick anything in their size. Well, the kids LOVED their costumes and I got them all for under $20 total! Elara picked her Minnie Mouse and has fallen in LOVE with her. She can't stop talking about Minnie Mouse. Everyone LOVED Eden as an ice creme cone and thought she was so clever and she always had to correct them because people's first guess was a cupcake. And Anakin was perfect for Kael. He loves Star Wars as much as I do, and I'm a nerd and love Star Wars. It was just fun seeing each of their personalities come out in their costume choosing. 

The actual day of Halloween was busy with school costumes, showing the blue hair spray out, getting on new costumes, chili, biscuits, and root beer for dinner. We went out trick-or-treating at 6 and got back by 7. The kids had even more candy at this point. The ate and ate as much as they wanted while watching Garfield's christmas and Despicable Me 2. Then, at 8 Derek had to go to bed and the kids decided they liked handing out candy more than eating it, and dumped all but 10 pieces of candy back into our give away bucket and we all sat outside in the wind handing out their candy they got that night. It was so fun. Kael ate more candy than I thought he did because he ended up puking around 11 that night. It was a LONG fun day, and I learned to limit kids candy intake... It does indeed cause puking...