princess, flower, and tiger, oh my

Halloween has come and gone. It was not my most creative year- no coordinating, handmade costumes, but we all survived. Also, after the one night we set aside to do pumpkins turned into a night of mishaps, one after another, we threw in the towel and didn't carve a pumpkin at all. I do love Halloween and all that goes along with it, but this year I had to let go of something- hours of costume fashioning and pumpkin creation crafting were unfortunately the first to go.... I plan to come back with a vengeance next year:).

Avery wanted to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Easy enough. We had a Belle dress up dress already. Add a crown, gloves, and a red ribbon necklace and we are done. For trunk-or-treat at church we did not have the gloves yet (finding kid sized gloves, when you want them or course, was a challenge) and Avery refused to be an "incomplete" Belle, so she went as a ballerina- we came straight from dance class... convenient:). She did go as Belle (after I got her the appropriate "accessories") to Tiny Tigers on Thursday, Pismo trunk-or-treat on Friday, and on Halloween night at the Rober's (thanks for inviting us and accommodating Paul's Oregon football obsession :). Avery LOVED all the festivities, trick-or-treating, and the windfall of candy (of course).

The day of trunk-or- treat I set out 4+ full costumes for Finley to choose from... minnie mouse, a butterfly, a fairy, and a ballerina. She refused them all. She was insistent that she wanted to be a tiger. I didn't have a tiger costume, so we quickly fashioned a cowgirl costume, complete with a stick horse. She ended up staying in the back of the van the whole night because she was too scared of all the "monsters"....everything is very REAL to her at this point. We went and got a tiger outfit for her to wear for our other events, but when we got it home she decided it was too scary. She did end up wearing it (without the head and paws... those were the scary parts) for the Pismo ward trunk-or-treat and on Halloween.

Finley loved the candy, but was not thrilled about how you go about getting the candy. She was done after trick-or-treating at one house... "can we go home now?"

Emerson went as a flower dressed in a green track suit and a $1.00 flower headband I got at Target a few years ago at Easter time. She was cute, and I have no pictures.

Paul dressed up as a tourist for work on Friday- madras plaid shorts, yellow Hawaiian shirt, black socks, sandals. It was a good look for him.

I went as a tired, overworked, underpaid mom of 3 small children. I have yet to take off my disguise:).