Halloween 2011

The above picture was at our church Halloween Party.  You know John, he always comes up with the weirdest Halloween costumes (remember the eye phone?).  Anyway, you can see the games I did for this church party HERE. 
 

My trick or treaters

This is the little neighbor girl I baby sat a few times a week (in 2011/2012)

You see the bowl in that picture?  By the end of the night someone had stolen it!!!!  It was so cute, and it made me so mad!

A worn out trick or treater!

I'm Apparently Super Woman - Post Script Added

For the past few weeks my 8 year old son has been coming up with new Halloween costume ideas.  However, ALL of these costume ideas begin with, "You can make," or "You can sew." 

Seriously, I can't even tell you all the crazy ideas Trevan has come up with.  I should be flattered he thinks I can make anything, but really?? 

Just a few minutes ago, he said, "Mom, I know what I want my Halloween costume to be, it's kind of like this green goo monster, and you'll sew green things hanging down from my arm, and then some where it looks like I'm shooting them.  I don't know what kind of monster this is, I just made him up."  (He in fact just came over to inform me that this monster does not have any weapons, just the goo he shoots from his hands...) 

Ummm... where does one start with that? 

Who knows what he'll end up as tonight.  But, heavens knows, I'm not spending a lot of time making anything today...

Here's my costume this year -

Happy haunting!!!! 

Post Script:  I think this is funny:  One neighbor comes to me for help with a hair clip and to help make a letter for her daughters costume:  "I knew you had a glue gun," she said, another one comes at the last minute for safety pins.  She says, "I knew if anyone would have some, it would be you."  Too funny! 

October 2010 - Wrap Up

Such a happy baby!!

Mallary is always getting in my work room and getting my work - she's such a good "helper"

Keeping her dolly updated on current events.

HALLOWEEN:

Jonah was his adorable self as a skeleton

Mallary was a scared princess

The kids - Mallary was scared of the scary costume in the middle - Trevan is Darth Vader on the right

The neighbors

The cutest Darth Vader ever. 

Halloween!!

What are your traditions for Halloween? 

We have one that surprises people...

When Trevan was two or three, we went trick or treating with my brother and his family.  After the treats had been gathered, we went back to their house and watched their girls devour the candy they had dumped out on the floor.  There were no limits placed on how many pieces they could eat or anything.  I thought that was interesting, so we ended up doing it too. 

So, I am here today to be a myth buster.  Your kids will not get sick if you let them eat a ton of their Halloween candy in one night.  (and, if they ever did get sick, wouldn't that be a great lesson to them?)AND they will NOT stay awake all night bouncing off the walls.  Who came up with that stuff??  It has yet to happen to us, and our kids sleep like babies.  Hello?!  They are exhausted from all the trick or treating! 

What I have found is that my kids have learned how to monitor themselves.  They stop when they are full, and give us their buckets.  We let them have their candy when they ask for it.  Well, we do make them eat breakfast first.  The other benefit to this great tradition?  The candy doesn't hang around very long.  Although, our kids kind of get sick of the candy, and stop asking for the leftovers - so it usally gets dumped.

Another rule?  We make them share.  I must have said once, that if they don't share, they don't go trick or treating.  So, they share...  :)

Happy trick or treating!!