Trunk-Or-Treat

Little A carved the cat, Little D carved the toothy one and I carved the ghost.

When I first started this post it was October 29th. I was waiting to get a picture of Little D in his costume but I have given up on ever getting one and decided to post it without one of him. you will just have to imagine what he looked like.

This past Wednesday was our Ward's Trunk-Or-Treat. It was a lot of fun. We invited some friends of ours who have 2 little girls and it was fun for the kids to be able to bring a friend. Little A was a Witch, Little D was Batman, and Little C was Robin. He was so cute. He hated the mask though.

He cried and pouted for this picture and would not sit with Little A for a picture.


When we first got there we ate and played games in the gym and then went outside for some Trunk-Or-Treating. They got a ton of candy and there was a haunted house. I asked Little A if she was going to go in there and she said no. (No surprise there) But then when we got around to it Little A insisted on going in. The man at the door told us to be sure and get some candy out of the box. Little A and her friend put their hands in to find no candy, just something grabbing their hand! They jumped a little. Once we were in all the way my friends little girl was screaming her guts out! I felt so bad. We went around the corner and a man jumped out and yelled at us. I swear that Little C jumped about 3 feet backwards. He wasn't crying though. Once we were through Little A and her friend said that it wasn't that scary. I was surprised. But the other little girl is probably traumatized for life. She was not liking it for sure.


In all I think that they had a good time. There was this one trunk that had this awesome bubble machine and the bubbles, when they came out, had fog in them. They were awesome. When you popped them the fog would go, Poof! It was cool. Little C had a favorite trunk, it had a scary looking head in a glass ball and it would move and talk to you. He just stood there and laughed. Every time it moved or talked her would laugh and laugh!



Little D ran around with his friends most of the time and I hardly saw him at all. I guess I had better get used to that.

ANOTHER HALLOWEEN!

This year we had a Clone Trooper, Tinker Bell, and a Dragon! But I must admit that my enthusiasm for Halloween wasn't as it should have been. I only made Little A's costume and by the time I was done with that all my Halloween Spirit was gone. Plus Little D was insistent on being a Clone Trooper and I didn't want to make one of those.

But the kids had fun and we were able to go to the church Trunk-Or-Treat. First they played little games and there was food to eat.



Little C had colored chocolate dripping down his chin and onto his costume. That was my first mistake, letting him have that first bag of M&M's. I was very grateful for Bro. Krumm for handing out Cheetos instead of candy. I would rather give Little C Cheetos than candy.

This was the first year that we let Little D run around with his friends by himself. He was pretty excited. Big J took Little A around to all the cars.

Needless to say we now have too much candy hanging around and all the kids are addicted. Little C brings me candy after candy wanting me to open it. We have caught him a few times with a candy bar eating and squeezing it through the wrapper. He must have a hidden stash somewhere.

Homemade Halloween Costumes

So every year I have made the Kid's Halloween Costumes. With the exception of Little D's Transformer costume which Big J made. So this year I did the same.

First Little A. She is a Cowgirl this year. I made her dress and belt. Found the hat at the fair (the tiara lights up) I didn't let her turn it on cause it is blinding if you look at the lights. I found the Boots at the Boot Barn. I was hoping to find purple ones but I'm glad I was able to find white. In all her pictures I made her say "YEE HAW!" I wanted her to have a little pony on a stick but I didn't have time to go to the toy store, Oh well, she'll never know the difference. Here is a picture of her best YEE HAW!



Now Little C's costume was by far the funest to make and cutest! I made this one from the hat right down to the shoes! I even made the clown. He He. Little C made a super cute clown. Too bad he fell asleep so soon at the Trunk-or-Treat. And it just so happens that one of the things that I am worst at is sewing on buttons. They never seem to stay. I just can't figure them out. They seem so simple too. But his three big buttons fell off by the end of the night. So here he is in his best clown smile, Little C the Clown!



Now This is Little D's best Jedi Pose. He has a super cool light saber that pops up with a push of a button and it makes sounds and has lights. Unfortunalty I didn't make his costume though. My sister Samurai Mom loaned it to us. (Who was Sarah Palin for Halloween.)

Crafty

So lately there has been no shortage of things that I want to make but there seems to be a shortage of Time, Energy, and Motivation. I have however, been able to do a few things for Halloween. The first is something that we had done 2 years ago. We all got a pumpkin and decorated it. But 2 years ago Little A was too young and now we have Little C. So we made 2 more. Here they are...


The other project I did was with baby food jars. I was getting quite a collection built up and I almost started to throw them away when I came a cross an idea to make Jack-O-Lantern tea candle holders out of them. All you do is modpodge the tissue paper over the jar and then draw a face. You could also use streamers but I couldn't find any when I was getting supplies. Then I put a fake tea candle that I found at Costco (in a pack of 28 with extra batteries. But I don't remember how much) in each one and lined the sidewalk. I plan to put them out on Halloween. I also used them to decorate my trunk at the Trunk-or-Treat.



I hope to have more crafts to show you later.