Halloween

you could call this a theme... or not, i'm not really sure if they looked like anything in particular, what do you think?

asher is technically part of the crew, though he doesn't look like much of anything... I was too rushed this year... like always ;)

any guesses?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinderella (not Disney, of course), Evil Queen (note the mirror), Prince Charming, and the poison apple.

 

Malachi really doesn't like being told what to wear, so I really wasn't sure if he would dress up at all, even for candy (though that is his most powerful motivator). He was excited about the cape and horse though, and the crown was little enough that it didn't bother him.

 

This was from the night of our church trunk-or-treat. We had fun at the chili cook-off and costume parade inside before going up the sidewalk where the cars were parked as quickly as we could... it was COLD! I liked how the organizers arranged it though, the kids only went to each car once, and they weren't running through the parking lot like crazy people.

It turned out to be a really good thing we got so much candy that night too, because evidentially Halloween isn't much of a holiday around here! we only had 5-6 trick-or-treaters and we went all up and down our street (and the 4 little circles that stick off of it), and we only had 2 houses where people were giving out candy :( I was kinda glad when it started raining because it gave us the motivation to get back home, and we still had plenty of our candy for the kids.

 

The kids' school doesn't celebrate Halloween either... kind of... They had a school-wide Wizard of Oz unit where they decorated the school and had special activities relating to the story for the week leading up to Halloween, and on the 31st they got to dress-up (which is an even bigger deal when the option is a uniform!). The kindergarten and first grade hall was munchkin land, so they had the option of being a munchkin or Glinda... I had one of each (ps, you're right, Glinda doesn't really have wings, but we thought they completed the outfit anyways :). I was impressed with the costumes we were able to pull together at the last minute. Afton's bonnet is made of paper! and her apron is a napkin... she was being munchkin-like here, but she also had a big poufy skirt and striped knee-socks :)

Happy Halloween!