Halloween

We all dressed up this year, but I didn't get a picture of all of us together. How did this happen? I don't know if it's very obvious, but Will was a ninja for Halloween. He's pictured above showing off his ninja sword with one of his buddies dressed as an adorable lion. Britton was the ninja master with a larger, much cooler sword, and Will was his little apprentice. Britton admitted that this is something like his fourth Halloween dressed as a ninja. I can't blame him. It's so easy and you can actually use the costume pieces later.

We had two Halloween parties to attend this year. One for the courtyard, and one for our church. At the last minute, I decided to do the classic peeled grape/eyeball and spaghetti/worm game for the kids. I didn't have any shoeboxes so I decided to get creative with some cereal boxes. I thought I was so clever. No one else cared much:)

We borrowed this cute little bean bag toss game from someone at church. The bean bags are in the shape of pumpkin seeds! How cute! Will is throwing bean bags with his two year-old Japanese friends. It's especially fun to watch him play with the little boy he calls "Sototo". They just run around constantly laughing.
At the church Halloween party Britton's family joined us! It was a major treat for Will to have cousins, Nana, and so much candy all in one night. This is the only picture I have of my "belly dancer" costume. You can't see the belly so much from this angle, but it's really sticking out there!

Halloween Nintendo Style

For our Halloween costumes this year we went with a Mario Bros theme. Will still doesn't have a say in his costume so it's easy to coordinate. Britton doesn' have too much choice in his costume either. He's lucky I let the t-shirt fly this year. I'm already planning something more outgoing for him next year. Our neighbors joined us so we had almost the whole Mario mushroomy crew.

Halloween was pretty busy because we attended a party at church and then went straight to another one in our courtyard. I'm 0 for 2 in the annual chili cook-off. Maybe I'll have better luck next year if I use bacon. The church party was really crowded, and Will was mostly overwhelmed by all the weird looking people and noise. I loved seeing all the cute kids in their costumes. There were lots of princesses for Will to save, but luckily there was another Mario there to help out.
Britton's parents, grandma, and secret service agent brother joined us for both parties. Alex, Will and I toured the neighborhood for candy and did pretty well. The kids go to the back doors, and our neighborhood is a concentrated wonderland of candy at Halloween. Except for those houses that hand out things like pretzels and inedible things like play-doh. Oh, wait, that was me. I thought I'd give the kids a break from all the sugar. I hope they weren't too disappointed.