Halloween

First off, no one go into shock, but after 4 or 5 months, yes, I am blogging again. Except this time I will not be promising to catch up or be any more regular with my posting. I will post when I have time and feel like it. Which may be quite often, but more than likely will be occasionally at best.

 

I do have some fun pics of the kids from Halloween, though. Sydney and Jake were really the only ones that dressed up. Brandon techincally did for a party a few days before Halloween, but I only took a pic with my iPod, so it's a little grainy...

 

Sydney chose to be a witch this year. I made her dress and cape (which she didn't even wear much, since she said it was scratchy) and we bought the hat and broomstick at Target. For our ward's Trunk-or-Treat, she wanted to paint her face green and looked so cool, but was over that by the time Halloween was here for real, so no face paint. She carved her pumpkin 100% herself this year and was so proud! I loved that she had to stand on the kitchen table to get the right angle for scooping out the guts. :) She ended up with more than enough candy!

 

 

Jake chose to be Bomb Bird from one of his favorite games, Angry Birds. Bomb Bird is his favorite because "He can 'splode' things." He even told me that bomb birds could "splode" witches and, therefore, he was going to "splode" Syd. He thought that was pretty sneaky, haha. The big pic in the middle is of him showing me the exploding in action--love it! His costume was pretty easy to make, especially since we already had the hat. And since there is this amazing thing called Pinterest, where I found a couple DIY patterns and merged them into one. Ahh, Pinterest, how I love thee...

 

Brandon and Ryan carved their pumpkins themselves, too. It's nice not to have to help them anymore. :) Brandon made the one with the scary grim-reaper-ish guy, and Ryan made the Angry Birds one. They turned out pretty great. Ryan enjoyed being the official candy-hander-outer instead of trick-or-treating. Tim loved it, too. He just watched Duck Dynasty while Ryan took care of the candy duties.

 

Brandon went to a Halloween party a few days before Halloween, and he chose to go as his favorite character, Ron Swanson, from his favorite show, Parks and Rec. Pretty sure that not many of his friends watch that show or really "got it," but he looked pretty awesome. We found that sweet brown corduroy jacket at Savers for five bucks.And we cut out his stache from brown felt. Cheap and easy and awesome. It was perfect.