Halloween 2010

This year Halloween fell on a Sunday so the church had a trunk 'n' treat the Friday before that we went to. Before that though Ty had to be dressed up as his favorite storybook character for school. I only found out about it 2 days before so the day before I was frantically running around trying to figure out how to make a 'Thing 1' costume for him. I ran into several people from our ward who had costumes they offered we could borrow but when I told Ty about them, he would think about it and then say, 'no! I want to be Thing 1." So my search for blue hair went on. I had bought a clown wig that we spray painted blue but it just didn't look as good as I wanted it to. So went Ty put on his hat to go pick up Ben from work I noticed the little thing on top and thought maybe I could make blue hair out of fleece. We had already bought 2 red fleece blankets to make the outfit but we hurried back and bought a blue one too and a headband/ear warmer thing. Then I cut strips of the blanket and sewed them onto the ear warmer thing. I think it all turned out pretty good and Ty liked it - which was the most important. And I think he was the only one who was actually dressed up as a storybook character.

Then Saturday our friends, who had just gotten home from Rome and missed the trunk 'n' treat invited us over for some Halloween fun. Afterwards Ben helped the kids carve their pumpkins.

Laney does NOT like getting the guts out. haha

Then Sunday was Halloween and we only got 2 Trick-or-Treaters! The first little kid who came to the door...I could tell it was killing Ben, because he's normally the best candy-giver-out'er. Always commenting on their costumes and he just so cute with the kids but he knew that the little German boy wouldn't understand. It was pretty funny.