Happy Halloween!

 

We are having a great Halloween, we hope you are too.

I've been spending the last 2.5 months making costumes and I've been thoroughly enjoying myself. Sewing is a stress relief for me, and heaven knows how much I've needed some stress relief.  The nice thing about sewing (especially now that I have a permanent place to sew and can leave everything out) is that I can do it in 2 minute stints in between taking care of my children. 

 I let the children each choose what they wanted for Halloween. 

Rebekah- I mean Tinker Bell (the modest version)

Rebekah chose to be Tinker Bell.  She LOVES Tinker Bell for some reason even though she doesn't like the movie Peter Pan.  But, I've been discouraging the collecting of Tinker Bell objects because I don't want her surrounded by immodest fairies.  But, we're working on finding ways to cover Tinker Bell and I altered the costume pattern to be modest.

Hyrum- I mean the Runaway Pumpkin

Hyrum LOVES pumpkins.  His favorite book is the Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis.  He knew what he wanted to be right away... A Pumpkin!  He was so excited about this costume!

Brigham- I mean Mr. M&M

Brigham LOVES chocolate- especially M&M's!  So naturally he wanted to be one for Halloween.  He wouldn't tell me what color of M&M he wanted to be, at least not one color.  Every time I asked him he would say, "red, brown, and purple"  or on another occasion, "All the colors, I want to be a rainbow M&M."  I wasn't quite sure how to do that so I decided to make it green to coordinate with Rebekah's costume.

On Saturday we took the children to a farm to play and get pumpkins.  

The characters at the farm

There was so much for the children to do there!  They had a blast and the weather was perfect.

This is the corn slide.  The children got to slide down a huge pipe into a huge box of corn.

They got to ride on horse swings made from tires and old farm equipment.

Rebekah Flying like a fairy on the jumping pillow

Brigham enjoying himself

The Runaway Pumpkin kept rolling off the pillow like a pumpkin rolling down a hill- until he was asked to stop by the pillow supervisor.

Below is the children playing in the wooden ship at the farm.

Us on the back of the pick-up truck.  (Timothy took the picture)

In front of Wick-a-dee Witch's house right next to the pumpkin patch.

Climbing the hay- they weren't excited to sit for yet another picture.  

Each of the children picked out a pumpkin and got to paint it for Family Home Evening.

In our backyard

Our ward did a Halloween activity at a neighborhood park.  The children had a good time  and got too much candy.   We won the prize for the best family in the costume contest.  On Halloween they get to wear their costumes to school, then that night they get to go trick-or-treating to some neighbors.

Timothy and I dressed up in Victorian era costumes.  I made a fancy dress that I was excited to have finally finished (I started making it over 6 years ago.)  Timothy wore his tux and I made him a top hat and cravat and he made a walking stick.  I decided if anyone asked who we were dressed as I could say Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy.  No one asked who we were, though we did get  a lot of compliments on our costumes.

I started making this dress on a whim and realized just how much work it was going to take and committed myself to finishing it even if it took many years.  And it did.  I worked on it for about two years and then we adopted our children and I quite working on it until recently.  I figure it probably took me between 50-80 hours of work to make it.  (Including making the hat and the hoop skirt underneath.) It has been fun and now that I'm finished and it turned out so well I feel like I could make just about anything.  (Probably not true, but it's fun to think about the possibilities.)

Happy Halloween!