Happy Halloween!

 Happy Halloween!  The kids were so excited to dress up this year.  They went through lots of different ideas, but when Kinsey matter-of-factly told the kids "I be Lucy" when they asked her what she wanted to be for Halloween, they jumped on board and made big plans to be Peter (or Edmund, depending on the day), Susan and Lucy from the Chronicles of Narnia. They all love the story of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so it was perfect.

They were very involved in making their costumes.  They wanted Brian to be Aslan and me to be the White Witch (or as Kinsey says, the "Mean, Naughty Lady") but my creative juices ran out after finishing the kids' costumes.

Halloween Night was spent with cousins in Phoenix! We went to their neighborhood block part and dinner, game carnival, and then trick or treating where the neighbors go all out for Halloween. Haunted house, green fog, and tons of decorations. Bracken spent most of the night calculating how much money he'd get by selling his candy to the dentist.  

Chandra as Susan, complete with a bow, arrows and a horn (not pictured).

Bracken helped me with each part of his costume.  Imagining, shopping, sewing, and painting the shield and the shirt.

Kinsey as Lucy.  She dressed up her favorite bear as Aslan and carried around her little medicine bottle. 

Neighborhood Block party.  Hot dogs, chili, treats, and a game carnival for the kids. 

Ella and Chandra were inseparable...as usual. 

Kinsey loved being pushed around in her cousins car to go trick-or-treating.