Halloween this year was EXTRA memorable for at least 3 reasons:
1) Grandma Benson was here!!
2) Carter was actually something other than a marine!!
3) Our powder room toilet flooded spilling water through the wall and all over our master bathroom/closets (yuck).
Though it was raining we still perservered and did a respectable amount of trick-or-treating with our friends the Sessions and our sweet Grandma. Ellie was a freezing ball of stickiness when we got home but she LOVED it. I made Carter and Ellie messenger bags to put their candy in AND my sisters Brittany and Bonnie collaborated to make all the nieces and nephews super cute Halloween bags so there were plenty of places to put candy and carry it all over the house. There is an immensely talented woman in our ward who turned the bags I made into true awesomeness with the personalized monograms. I thought they looked amazing and Carter still wears his costume for dress-up (yes, I said dress-up).
Our ward had their trunk-or-treat at our old Bishops Christmas tree farm and the kids waited almost a half hour in the cold drizzle because Carter really wanted to go on a hay ride. The happy memory will have been well worth the wait! Joe was the chili cook-off judge and he took his responsibility very seriously. He was a fair, unpartial though sometimes harsh judge :).
Couple of extra confessions:
1)okay, our neighborhood had a big halloween party the week before Halloween and I didn't have their costumes ready sooooo....they were both marines...
2)we totally grew the big pumpkin in that picture!! Carter couldn't bear to cut into it so a little permanent marker turned it into a masterpiece.
3 comments:
I LOVE it all! What awesome and unique costumes! We miss you guys so much, it's crazy to think it's been a whole year since we celebrated our early Halloween festivities together. We need to catch up, I will call you real soon!
I love you guys! Nice to see what you have been up to! Your kids are adorable in their costumes, and don't be ashamed about Carter dressing up. Jaxon still thinks his super hero cape is amazing and fun to wear. Boys just wear different things than girls, but they still dress-up!
And sometimes boys dress up the same as girls! Logan has been known to put a cinderella dress on a time or two. :) I love all the embroidered details on carter's costume-- fabulous!
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