Halloween 2011

 This was a do-it-yourself Halloween at our house, since I put off doing anything about costumes for way too long.  Here's Rebekah as a newsie,

 Price and Josh as Tim- yeah, yeah, I don't know how they can both be Tim, either- but it was an extremely easy costume, okay?

 Ethan the pharoah.  He made that headdress completely by himself.  I thought it was pretty awesome.

 Emma the pirate or, as it ended up, the "adventurer". Whatever she is, she's pretty cute.

 Annie the mermaid.  I had no idea how to do a mermaid costume last minute, but found this idea in Family Fun.  It turned out cute, but didn't make it through the ward trunk-or-treat on Saturday.  She was a soccer player for the rest of the weekend.

 Eliza as a cute baby!  The kids were so excited for her first Halloween- I hated to tell them that she really wasn't excited about it.  I mean, really-when you're a month old, what's so exciting about candy and costumes?  Plus you get dragged around the neighborhood, it's cold, and everyone's loud and hyper.  Yeah- she'll appreciate it more in a couple of years.

The jack-o-lanterns:

Mockingjay, by Rebekah and Ethan

"E"- by Emma

"Y" by Price and Josh 

(sorry about the picture- we had an underachieving candle.)

and "Jack" by Annie

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We had a lot of fun at the trunk-or-treat on Saturday.  Good thing, because Annie woke up sick the next morning, and spent most of Halloween looking like this:

 She had to miss the school parade and her class party.  No fun.

We ended up taking her to the doctor on Tuesday.  He diagnosed a sinus infection and bronchitis, gave us an antibiotic, and said to keep her home from school for two more days.  She missed 4 days altogether. 

She didn't miss out on Halloween completely- we took everyone trick-or-treating at Tim's office, where they got about 5 pounds of candy each.  After that haul, we decided to hit Grandma Steele's and Grandma Shipley's and call it good. 

I believe, almost two weeks later, that the candy is now gone, for which I am grateful.  This year it wasn't so much the constant sugar high that I minded- it was the candy wrappers everywhere!  Oh well- it's over for another year- bring on Thanksgiving!