Happy Halloween

In the past we have always been able to think of something related to Corbin's current interests to dress up as for Halloween and he's gone right along with it. This year I thought it would be fun (and easy) to just do traditional Halloween monsters (mummy, skeleton, witch, Frankenstein) but Corbin really wanted to be a musketeer.

I wasn't particularly thrilled about dressing Makelle up in a boy costume, since she already has no hair, so I ended up making matching dresses for us girls and tabards for the boys. Corbin went back and forth for awhile there trying to identify everyone... some days we were the four musketeers, some days they were musketeers saving the princesses, but by the end I think he settled on Caleb, Makelle and I as the three musketeers and he was D'Artagnan. So I guess it works, whatever we were the kids looked cute!






(I am pretty sure the motivating force behind wanting to be musketeers was getting to play with swords all night :)

With Halloween being on a Sunday this year we seem to have turned it into an entire weekend of festivities. On Friday we went to Caleb's office party where the kids got to hang out and go trick-or-treating around to his coworkers. Then we went up to our friends' house for a Halloween party that night. On Saturday we hung out and watched Scooby-Doo then went to our ward Halloween party where the kids played little carnival games, ate dinner and of course got more candy! After we left the church we drove up and spent the rest of the evening visiting with family. It was a busy, but fun, weekend.



Because of his food allergies, Corbin has never really been much a candy eater... but we certainly discovered Makelle's sweet tooth this year. It did not take her long at all to catch onto the idea of trick-or-treating as soon as she realized people were giving her loads of goodies. She never quite got in the full "trick-or-treat" part though, it was usually just "treat!" while smiling big and holding out her bucket. She knows what she wants and how to get it, that one :)