Halloween 2017

We kicked off Halloween weekend by going to our local aquarium for trick or treating under the sea. Kensi happened to get a My Little Pony mask in her Happy Meal earlier this week and took it upon herself to make her own costume. She paired her new mask with parts of my old dance costumes. Finn didn’t want to dress up at all this night so we opted for our skeleton jammies. He’s crying here because we took away the iPad while Livie just goes with the flow. Being the third child she has several costumes to choose from so we put her in Kensi’s parrot costume from 2013.

The kids loved being able to see a few of their favorite characters, getting lots of treats and playing games. Mike and I were impressed by the scuba divers in full costume carving pumpkins under water. That takes some serious skill!

Saturday we hosted our Halloween party. We love doing this every year and encourage everyone to come in costume. Mike and I dressed as Chip and Joanna Gaines, but it was a total dud. No one knew who we were even with my Waco t-shirt, Mike’s tool belt and #demoday hat. In fact, he was asked if he was Bob the Builder or Al from Home Improvement. ???? What? Needless to say we didn’t get pictures of us or Finn for that matter. He originally requested to be a dragon so I painted his face. Once he saw his reflection he flipped out. Tears rolled down his face, turning his cute green dragon into some sort of yellow streaked swamp monster. I cleaned him up and we were lucky he was willing to wear pajamas. Kensi asked to be a panda bear, and the cutest little panda. Of course she was most excited about having her face painted....a current favorite right now.

When Tuesday finally rolled around I was ready to move past Halloween. Our weekend was busy and we were exhausted, but we managed to get all our costumes done and trick or treat like champs. We did a family theme with Room on the Broom. It may be one of my favorite themes we’ve done and it started because Finn wanted to be a frog so we ran with it. Kensi was the witch and her costume consisted of this gorgeous star tutu, a handmade cloak and a hat. She was so excited to have all the best accessories with her broom, wand and cauldron which she used as her trick or treat pail. Finn’s costume was extremely simple since I knew he would only wear the bare minimum. I paired olive green pajamas with homemade frog eyes on a headband. He’s crying in this picture because he didn’t want to wear his eyes. Of course.

Olivia was the dog and I had a difficult time finding pieces to create a brown dog, so I opted for black and made simple puppy ears, which she didn’t want to wear either. You win some, you lose some. Mike went as the bird and wore a homemade mask covered in crepe paper to look like feathers and I went as the cat. We had so much fun and we had way more trick or treaters than expected. We ran out of candy only to refill and run out again!

We had so much fun this halloween, but we are so excited to move onto the next holiday! I know Thanksgiving is next, but we are ready to begin decorating for Christmas. I’ll probably slowly begin upstairs in the kids’ rooms and maybe try and sneak a few pieces here and there before we fully begin decorating Thanksgiving weekend!