Halloween Fun

We made our normal trip the a local pumpkin patch. We had a great time looking at all of the different pumpkin. We ended up with two large, two small, and two tiny pumpkins. With the girls help in picking out the patterns, we carved the two large pumpkins. We had a great time.

This year Elizabeth really challenged us with her costume request. She declared and stuck to the idea that she was going to be Eve from the movie Wall-E. Eve us the white girl robot from the movie. After many hours searching online, I finally came to the conclusion that I was going to have to make this costume. Thankfully, other parents had posted online some great ideas for making the costume. We were able to take those ideas and modify them to make Elizabeth's costume. Dennis did all of the cutting and I did the assembling. We added a green glow stick behind the leaf symbol and blue glow stick necklaces around the contrail to make it more like the character from the movie. I think it turned out pretty good.

Katherine's costume request posed a few problems as well. She was determined to be princess Ariel. Unfortunately, all of the 2T sizes were more like ballerina Ariel, which was not Ariel at all in her opinion. One of my friends finally suggested that I check the Disney store. Sure enough the XXS was perfect fit for her and they were on sale. We got her the matching light up shoes (which she'll be growing into), crown, and light up wand. She was the perfect little Ariel princess.

We were almost rained out on the big trick-or-treating night. We had to delay our start time by 30-45 minutes to let a rain storm pass by. We figured we had only an hour before it started to pour rain again. We went out with a couple of other families in our neighborhood. The kids had a blast. Elizabeth's costume proved to be a little difficult to walk in and that tuckered her out pretty quick. Once we were done, we handed out candy and the girls enjoyed seeing the other kids in their costumes.

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