Halloween party

Yesterday is a bit of a blur. After staying up late making arrangements for Dave's trip back East the night before, our morning was busy getting him packed and ready to go. Then we got the kids out of school early to take him to the airport. Dallin had his field trip in the morning, so we picked him up from the pumpkin patch on our way there. It was hard saying good-bye. It was like we were so busy getting all the necessary things done that it didn't hit us until we actually hugged and kissed at the airport. Then we came home and got costumes on and cornbread made for the church Halloween party.
The kids have been looking forward to this event pretty much since last year, and it was a good distraction from the emotions of the day. We had dinner there (soup, chile, corn bread and rolls) played games in all the classrooms, including an amazing shooting gallery, and finished up with trunk-or-treating in the parking lot (it's like trick-or-treating, but people decorate the trunks of their cars and hand out candy from them). Dallin is a pirate skeleton. He kept asking, "Am I scary?!" Brennan is wearing the same frog costume all of our boys have worn about this age. Every time he sees it he ribbits.I made Tyler's pirate pants (it was the easiest pattern ever - I made them in less than an hour), he made his pirate vest over spring break when the kids said they wanted to learn how to sew, and we're recycling the vampire shirts they wore last year.

Dallin was going to be just a skeleton, but when he saw that the other boys were going to have swords, well of course he wanted one too.

Brennan loved the candy he got from trunk-or-treating and got quite irate when we wouldn't let him have certain things. So far he hasn't had any allergic reactions.

I LOVE the vest I made for Spencer. It's faux leather, and it looks and feels way cool. It was also totally easy - no buttons or zippers or sleeves or any of those hard things. I also made his pants.

Have you ever seen cuter pirates? They really get into the role.