As always, I love halloween. I love that we get to dress up and pretend for one night. I love that my kids get into the holiday as much as I do. I love that they are creative and like to do crafts. Its all great to me. Kya decorated her pumpkin like a peacock and won 2nd Place Overall. She is quite the artist. I am her classroom mom and got to put together the halloween party. The kids had a good time with a witches hat ring toss, pin the spider on the haunted house and making handprint spiders.
Halloween evening we had a trunk-r-treat at the stake center then a chilli dinner. Yummy. Our costumes this year...Wizard of Oz. I found Kya's Dorothy costume at Once Upon a child for just $6 and then Zander's Lion costume at DI for $2. Carl's Wizard costume was about $10 from DI and I found my dress at DI for $30. It was a wedding dress that I dyed pink. My crown is some old cutting boards I had cut up and spray painted. I love making our costumes, so much more than buying them as is. Its fun to make something new out of something old. I mentioned that it would be fun to have a baby by halloween so that we had a scarecrow or tinman...months before halloween. Zander remembered that and asked where our baby was. So we spray painted a doll silver to be the tinman and I had a little scarecrow, that he carried around with him.
