Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Happy Halloween Matey!

This year's family themed costumes were not as much "home-made" as "home-thrown-together". We were a band of pirates! Aaarrr!




Finn got to wear his costume on 4 separate occasions this year! I am very ready to put it away now. I had to wash his and Selah's 3 times before Halloween.



We started celebrating a week before Halloween at Matthew and Orianna's annual costume party which we have NEVER been able to attend before this year now that we are local!! Woo hoo! People go all out with the costumes. These are some of my favs.

The host and hostess




Finn's preschool had a cute little pumpkin song to sing to the office staff. It was adorable.


The kids' costumes were either fairy, princess or super hero. Finn's was the only one that was none of the above. The parents decided to take group photos based on the costume. They put Finn in the fairy group, arguing that a pirate should be surrounded by fairies.....like in Peter Pan. Okaaay.


Eating a scalped jack-o-lantern fruit salad at snack time in preschool.


Nate's school had their first big event of the year with their Fall Festival. Tons of kids showed up in costume. They were so cute, and many of them sorta scary.


This booth was nasty. You had to stick your hand in these gross holes filled with slimy mushy gooey stuff in order to get a prize.


And that was the night Finn's love affair with cotton candy began...
(my teeth hurt even thinking about it)


Nate was a sick guy on Halloween, so the kids and I headed 0ver to our friends' Jeff and Lisa's and their 3 girls house for some pizza, treasure hunting, and trick-or-treating!

Big hug from Brinley.


Finn and his new BFF, Kelsey.


Off to trick or treat with some fairies, a baby octopus, a bag of jelly beans, Hannah Montana and the grim reaper. You know, the usual crowd.


I got SOOOOOO much candy!


Wanna piece?

3 comments:

Mark Bornstein said...

oh thank you for posting pictures. I sat at Robin's house, handing out candy to the billions of kids walking down her street, wondering what wonderful costumes you did this year. I told everyone about your themes in the past. Love the pics!!!

Heath Family said...

It looks like you guys had a great Halloween. I love the family pic of Pirates! Hey, the good thing about wearing the costumes so many times is that they were put to good use. The kiddos are going to be too big for them any day now.:)

Andy said...

That's cute.