Halloween 2012

Trick or Treat! smell my feet!

Happy Hallo-WEENIE!!

These were the phrases most used this year. Gotta love elementary school.

I'm a fan of imagination filled costumes and a day to be In a total fantasy land. I tried super hard to find a costume of my body at 16 years old (because that's my fantasy) and it was a big disappointment that they don't make anything of the sort.

Brody's biggest desire is to be a hunter, a true blue Wyoming kid. He's green with envy of his friends who have fire armed dads and heads on the wall. His leisure reading is Hunters magazine and he's obsessed with watching those real live hunts on TV. The poor lad just has pacifist parents who are animal loving softies. Thank goodness for Halloween!! He camo'dup and wore true hunting attire and I could tell he just LOVED every minute of his hunter life fantasy. When the orange vest and hat came he ripped off his shirt to try on the new gear- then headed out to the back yard to do some "tracking". When I peeked out here was this kid in camo pants, Nike tennis shoes, a sleeveless undershirt,and bright orange cap and vest- it was like looking at a miniature Larry the Cable guy. Oh Brody.
He is currently saving every penny for a guide hunt when he turns 13.

Zane is just a funny guy. Last year he wanted to be a black cat. Sounds easy enough- too bad all the costumes for black cats involve pink ears and nose, and tights. We improvised. This year he wanted to be a ghost. Really?? A ghost?? Again, sounds fine. Until you actually try to put a sheet-like costume over a 3 year old with limited vision. Even after being miserable trying it on he wouldn't change his mind. His school wouldn't allow anything monster/scary related so we had a back-up costume of an army soldier (out of the dress up clothes) in the end he wore the soldier but I had to haul the ghost around. I slipped it on during trunk or treat :)

Preslie was the cutest little strawberry ever. She slept thru trunk or treat- which was the only time I took pictures.

We did trunk or treat at the church- which I think is lame. At least make the kids hike some hills or stairs for their candy! :)

Then in my quest to keep traditional trick or treating alive,we headed for the houses of safe looking strangers. In company with fabulous friends, we spent an hour making our way around one block. And it was wonderful.

Kids had candy for din and fell asleep in a sugar comatose.

Happy Halloween!!!!