Lazy Halloween

This year we were a little lazy in the costume department and we actually bought all our kids costumes. With Matt getting ready for deployment I thought that I shouldn't force him to stay up Halloween Eve spraying gold paint on a sleeper, stapling purple foam petals to a flower head piece, sewing spider arms to a shirt, gluing sponge spikes to a dragon, cutting out bone shapes for a skeleton, dyeing green peter pan tights, or piecing together R2D2 parts.

We trick or treated our neighborhood streets with Cleopatra, Boba Fet, Minnie Mouse, and the cutest little candy obsessed monkey. This Halloween season we learned a few things. Blake may be our craziest candy freak yet. He was given a lollipop at our ward trunk or treat and it was all down hill from there. He can't hold on to enough lollipops in his tiny little hands. He freaks out every time he sees candy. We had the other children eat their candy in secret. We also learned that Brayden comes in a close second with candy fever. He was picking up any dropped candy off the sidewalks and streets. Our homemade costumes will be back next year. We already have some picked out.

A few of our other Halloween festivities were carving pumpkins and making a Haunted Halloween Candy House. If some of the pictures look foggy its because they are. Matt went all out this year and got a fog machine and green light for the front porch. Testing it out the morning of Halloween in our house left things foggy for pictures.