Halloween

Bad, bad me. I didn't take my camera when we went trick or treating. But to my defense, we left the house at 8:00 in the morning and didn't ever make it back home until AFTER all the festivities. Very busy day and only about 50% had to do with Halloween.

The kids got to wear their costumes all day. They trick-or-treated at Ikea (where we ate lunch LOL), got lots of candy at Fry's Electronics, and got lots more at the couple houses we actually went to.

But by far the highlight of the evening was visiting the "haunted house" of a friend from church. They had all kinds of "scenes:" the body chop shop, the guillotine, the mad scientist (complete with dry ice bubbles-very cool!). And a (real person) statue that scared you when you weren't expecting it. The girls didn't know what to think at first and clung to me like glue. But once they understood that it wasn't real they had a lot of fun with it. The best part was when Alina stuck her hand in the bowl full of pigs eyes and ears. The look on her face was hilarious!!! Then of course she had to go back a bunch of times to feel them.

Anyway, since I didn't take my camera I felt obligated to take pictures of them all. Enjoy.

Everyone had their druthers on what they wanted to be dressed as. Everyone, that is, except Ryah. Not having experienced anything like Halloween (at least that was fun)she had no clue. So, rather than using my limited sewing time making a her costume we borrowed one. Elijah chose this past one from Jonas' collection. I would have preferred he be the Raggedy Andy one, but I guess it isn't cool. :)

Anastasia decided on being a bat. And told me in no uncertain terms (many times) that she wants to be a bat every year for the rest of her life.

After going through a million (well, maybe just 10 or 20) different choices Alina chose to be a witch (after I wouldn't let her be Hannah Montana- whom she doesn't really even know about).

Kristina and Miriam from day one wanted to be indians. Don't look closely at Miriam's sleeves, I ran out of time. LOL Story of my life.

Snow white and Rose Red, as someone put it once.

Jonas was a Pokemon trainer. Super easy to do.
Caleb was a Jedi knight. Costume was from last year.

Oh, and for the record. I took a million pictures but thought that you probably wouldn't want to wade through them all. If you are a glutton and WANT to (or are just curious) look at my photo blog. Probably won't be up until sometime after the first of the week.
Oh, I almost forgot. There are some pictures there of each child's Halloween bags which I also spent a lot of time on... not necessarily making, but deciding who got which one.