Happy Halloween!

Initially we were going to go to our church for the tri-ward trunk-or-treat. But Amelia told me that she really wanted to go trick-or-treating with Shelbie. She is a our neighbor's little girl and her and Amelia are the best of friends. Well I talked to Justin and he didn't see much of a difference between us going to the church or just trick-or-treating on the base. So Amelia got what she wanted and we took the kids around the base. Amelia absolutely LOVED her spider costume. Months ago she had told me that's what she wanted to be. So I started looking. Every spider costume that I saw was one of those dorky dancing spiders and that's not at all what I had in mind for her. So I thought that I could proabably make her one fairly easily. Here is the outcome.She absolutely LOVED it. Every chance that she got she was telling people that she was a giant spider and would hold out her arms to show them all of her legs.

Nathan this year was a pirate. At first he didn't want anything to do with his pirate cosutme. But he did want his sword. I told him that if he wanted his sword, he would have to put his costume on first. After that he was very willing to get his costume on. And the rest of the evening he played the part of a pirate really well.
He would walk around and in his own little way say, "I'm a pirate. Arr." He would even try to hit Amelia with his sword every chance that he got. He loved that sword and if someone tried to hold it for him for even one minute he would freak out yealling, "Mah sword! Mah sword!" He jsut dragged it around behind him all night. But both kids were troopers and didn't get tired at all. Once Nathan realized that he was getting candy when he said, "trick-or-treat" he would get excited and run towards the houses and say, "trit tree." He really kept us all entertained all evening long. At one point Justin went to give Nathan a piece of candy and he decided to take a little break. He sat himself down right in the middle of the sidewalk and ate his candy.

Here is a picture of the kids before we left to go trick-or-treating. Shelbie is Snow White and Brooke is a She-Devil.