For Halloween this year our family dressed up as characters from the Angry Birds video game. At first it was looking like I might have to let go of my control issues and give up the whole family theme idea because Makelle was dead set on being Princess Pink (her favorite character from Daddy’s make-believe bedtime stories) and Corbin was dead set on not being anything related to a princess—certainly not Prince Charming, but we couldn’t even talk him into a knight or dragon or anything. So I was already to give in and let them each pick their own costume when one Saturday afternoon as I was getting ready to head to the fabric store to buy lots of pink they were playing “angry birds on dad’s phone” and one of them commented that they wished they could be an angry bird and the other one chimed in that yea that would be cool and mom and dad can be the pigs and we can “get them!” So I jumped on that one and ran off to buy the supplies before they could change their minds, thereby securing one more year of family themed costumes. They actually ended up loving their costumes and running around the house like little summon wrestlers the rest of the month, bouncing off of each other.
Like always, Halloween seemed to last all week as we attended scary story time at the library went to a neighborhood kid party, attended the ward party, went to a family dinner in costume and then of course went trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Living in condos without many kids around we decided to let them go around with their cousins, who also happened to own a golf cart, which made for a pretty fun and efficient night gathering treats. We now have about enough candy to last until next Halloween, minus all the chocolate pieces that I may or may not have already eaten :)
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