(And now, yes, it's almost time for Merry Christmas...think we'll have snow then? Hah, yeah right. The snow got the date wrong of course, sending us snow for Halloween, pfft, but eh, it was fun then!)
Anyway, we had a lot of fun crafting our costumes this year!! Here's the big reveal!
Annabel went as a pencil- she was darling!! My #1 writer, too- not my #2 pencil, she's #1!!
Daniel went as a Space Invaders arcade game! This was Ben's brain child and it turned out SO cool!
Halloween was a great day of fun for all. I took pictures of the kids in costumes before they went to school (I'm so paranoid- I was even more so this year- I had visions of terrible things happening to these awesome costumes since they were so delicate.) Ben wrapped Daniel's costume up so it would stay safe from the weather elements (because it snowed all day that day pretty much), stay clean at school during the day, and remain secret until parade time that afternoon. I found an awesome shirt for Annabel that said, "Writing is my superpower" which I thought would be perfect over her costume, so it too would remain secret and it would be easy to slip off, and voila she was in her costume for the parade.
The Halloween parade for our school was indoors (for the first time in years and years, I'm told)- but we are SO fortunate that our school even HAD an indoor parade plan (so many schools just flat out cancelled their parades or if they did it indoors parents weren't allowed in, security being what it is in schools these days). AND the kids were so lucky to have SO many people able to come see their parade, too- Grandma Mary Kay AND Grandpa Larry both came (Grandpa retired last spring- so it's really nice he's around for stuff like this now!), and Grandma Cheryl AND Aunt Kathy (in town from Florida for Halloween for a change- so fun for her to be here for such a busy week of kids' activities!!). The parade was such fun to watch, as always.
I got to stay and help with Annabel's class Halloween party, too. That was fun. We did the eyeball rolling on sticks game I did with Daniel's class last year. Very cute with this group, too. I'm glad I was able to be there for her and watch her around the room, too, as well as interact with her class doing my game station.
That afternoon, we'd made plans for Daniel to trick-or-treat with his best friend, Manny, and some other boys, too. Annabel and I decided to join them (her best friend was sadly not available for trick-or-treating), but we also did our own thing as far as pace, since the boys were sluggish and Annabel just zipped merrily along, not too far, but just enough for us to feel like part of the fun and yet be doing our own thing. We had a good time, in spite of the cold (the snow stopped just in time for trick-or-treating, hallelujah- because it was just really blustery windy snowfall). Daniel's costume was easy to layer up and wear a coat with. Annabel's shirt was loose enough to layer underneath it (I think she had something like three layers on under that shirt!) and then she wore gloves and voila, she was plenty warm enough! I think the parents were the coldest, haha. And really, it was SO fun to trick-or-treat in the snow! What a fun memory that will be!
The kids lasted just about an hour, at which point we drove home and then trick-or-treated around our cul-de-sac. Annabel decided she was done after that small loop, but Daniel wanted to go around our block, too, so then it was just my boy and me and it was such a sweet time taking him trick-or-treating just the two of us. I loved it. I don't know how much longer he'll "do" Halloween since he'll be in junior high next year, so this was really nice.
And that was that. We had dinner, watched some Halloween movies, ate candy, and then boom- bedtime. The day went by fast!
Annabel's pre-Halloween fun picture!
Writing IS her superpower indeed!
Final checks on Daniel's costume! We'd just put the final touches on it the night before- the stickers on the "screen." It all turned out great!
Daniel's pre-Halloween fun picture!
All wrapped up and ready to go to school!
Snowy fall window view with a cute kitty, too!
Parade time!!
Party time!! I love this picture.
Annabel loves when it's her turn at these tall desks, by the way. So fun!
My phone does these fun photo effects for me from time to time and I liked this one!
Mother/daughter Halloween picture!
I was Annabel's paper!
Just about ready to trick-or-treat!
Final picture time!
I made their trick-or-treat bags, too.
An "eraser" bag for Annabel and an alien bag for Daniel- these were so fun!
Daniel and his friends!
Manny, Daniel, Neel, Ian, and Michael
Here we go!
Snow much fun!
This is one of my favorite pictures from the day! I love the snowy background!
Heh- this was the ONLY time we let the cats even get near this thing! And it was literally for two seconds at that. They were mighty curious...
Such a FUN Halloween!
