This Is Halloween!

The much anticipated night of Halloween has come and gone.  The kids had a great year trick or treating with friends.  Parents are no longer invited for the older kids.  That's just not cool.  :)

 Dave was our cutey pie "swashbuckler"  probably stuck swabbing the deck. 

 Rachel and Emily were the first to decide that they wanted to be pirates.  Apparently I live with a family of thieves.  LOL.  They went trick or treating with Taylee and Sophie and friends. 

 Ben took the original route with the Pirate Ship costume.  Yes, this took many hours of combined effort to create but it was a fun and unique costume.  And, it bounced when he walked like it was hitting waves. Surprisingly, it took quite a bit of ingenuity to make it balance properly after it was finished.

 Then there was Sarah.  We bought this fairy princess costume at Costco at the beginning of October.  She wore it every day for a couple weeks...then suddenly, she informed me she no longer wanted to be a fairy princess.  She wanted to be a skater and I needed to buy her some rollerskates.  HAHA.  She had a tough lesson in, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.  In the end, she chose to be the fairy princess.  She loves Halloween.  She and David went trick or treating with DAD and had a great time.

So, another Halloween has come and gone.   Sarah has thought of 10 costumes that she needs for next year.  The older kids have almost exhausted their candy supply after a week+.  On to Thanksgiving...