Anyway, despite my grumbling insides, we really did create some wonderful Halloween memories... particularly with our costumes... they turned out great! Anything that required sewing was done by Carol, otherwise this would have never been pulled off. We did Wizard of Oz this year, so the cast includes: Dorothy (Emma), Tin Man (Adam), Scarecrow (Ben D), Lion (Ben L), Wicked Witch of the West (me!), Wicked Witch of the East (Carol), Glinda (Emily), a flying monkey (Becca), a Lolipop Munchkin (Jake), a palace guard (Peter), and the Wizard of Oz (Clyde)... you can't see it in the picture very well, but Clyde is wearing a great green jacket. :)
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Ben's family drove up to our place on Saturday evening and we had a fall dinner together, and then got in our costumes and headed to our ward's trunk or treat. Since Halloween was a Sunday this year, we opted not to trick or treat door to door on the holiday, so this trunk or treat was the kids only hope for collecting candy... thank goodness it was such a great turnout - the kids got plenty!
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After collecting candy, we headed back to our place and Ben served up his pumpkin pie ice cream that he made. He's an ice cream genious, btw. :)
To backtrack, Emma had a little pumpkin party at school on Friday...
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And earlier in the week we carved pumpkins and made yummy caramel apples...
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And now I say hip hip hooray for November! Here's to Harry Potter 7, cooler weather, and turkey and mashed potatoes! :)
Oh, everyone's costumes are wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you took lots of pictures.
I really hope that you start feeling better soon. Morning sickness is so hard.
Oh look at your super cute family!!! Congrats on the pregnancy and hopefully you start feeling better soon. I can't believe you are ready to brave another one......I am sooOOOoooo not ready to go down that road yet. Someday :0) You'll have to walk me through it! Congrats and Cute Wizard of OZness.
ReplyDeleteLove all the costumes, they were awesome! Everyone looked great! I am sorry about the morning sickness, I hope it passes soon
ReplyDeleteI don't think your mother-in-law looks very witchy. . . but I do like her socks. . . my favorite picture was the shoe picture. . . way cute. Here here to november! and Harry Potter 7, however, I might have to push my harry potter party back to when it comes to the dollar show, I can't afford it. . . maybe I will have it the day it comes out on DVD. . . then I can just watch it at my house, an eat my scruptious magical goodies such as chocolate frogs, and every flavored beans while watching the show. Or maybe I could win tickets somehow!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you guys had a lot of fun on Halloween. I love the costumes. Sorry you were sick the whole time. That's no fun! But congratulations on your pregnancy. Thanks for sending me an invite to your blog. I've been such a slacker. Maybe I can get something up this weekend. :)
ReplyDeleteGREAT costumes!! I love the Wizard of Oz theme--how fun with your big group! Thanks for your skeleton idea last year--I copied you! Congrats on the new little one and hope you feel better soon!
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