Halloween Re-cap

Whoops. I meant to wait a few days and then post about Halloween. It wasn't super exciting. Just nice. Fun. Fairly low-key. Jeremy wasn't sure if he was going to come down or not (he was in Mesa, and had just returned from his conference and made it down there about 36 hours before) so we were just planning to go up to Daley Estates and go trick-or-treating with his mom, Ashley, and Chloe. Jaina was excited to be a princess with her purple dress she got for her last birthday, Abbie was making a Peter Pan costume for Reilly (that's who he randomly decided to be) and I picked Tinkerbell (out of the many possibilities of many dress up clothes lying around) for Katy. I didn't want Reilly's Peter Pan costume to get all dirty and possibly ruined at school that day, so I talked Reilly into being a pirate.

I thought he was cute with his little mustache, but he begged me to clean it off before he actually went to school. I couldn't get him to say why! Jaina was VERY excited to wear her costume to pre-school.

None of their costumes were too stressful. (There was a little head-scratching after I meticulously safety pinned Katy's huge Tink wings to the back of her shirt to try to give them more stability, then realized there was no way she could be buckled into her car seat...) I even decided to dress up, which I haven't done in I don't know how long. In some ways it's nice to just let everyone be what they want or we have, but I also miss the days of the Palmer Halloween parties, and matching costumes for Reilly and Jaina, hoping we'd win a prize (and Toys 'R Us gift card). They usually did, the darling little creatures. ;-)  Here are some past years:

Jeremy decided to go ahead and come down, and though the last few minutes of trying to get everyone ready at the same time and out the door was a little hectic, we mostly had a nice evening. We let them trick-or-treat to two of my mom's neighbors that they like, then went to my Grandma's, then up to Thatcher for the rest of the evening. There was a huge Halloween carnival at the football field at the school, but we weren't very up for that. The kids were troopers, and got all kinds of candy (that their parents didn't really want them eating...) I love the dress-up part of Halloween, but I'm not a big fan of all the sugar. Or any of the scary, gross stuff. And I don't do scary movies. I've seen Sixth Sense like 4 times (it was popular when I was in college) but with my eyes (and sometimes, ears) closed during about 1/3 of it each time. Now I just don't watch scary movies. Hocus Pocus is a little much for me, even. Anyway, sidetracked...
We had a good time, and I'm really glad Jeremy was able to join us. My kids really do LOVE Halloween. Maybe because of the candy, which they are obviously deprived of most of year. Either way, they're sure cute little Trick-or-Treaters.

Our last-minute scramble solution to Katy's costume not fitting in her carseat...