Mama Mia!

Although life has been hectic and crazy and I still could not locate my socks at the time, Halloween costumes were a success.  The kids' first choice was an Alice in Wonderland theme.  I do believe we will pull that one off one year, but the thought of trying to concoct awesome Mad Hatter, Alice, King of Hearts, and Caterpillar costumes out of thin air sounded a bit too involved for me at the moment.  Then, Asa came up with the Mario Brothers theme.  Perfecto!

With some felt, a hot glue gun, and some craft foam, I whipped up a couple Mario and Luigi hats in under 45 minutes.  Olive's mushroom hat came via the web, from a nice woman who crochets them.  Very cute.  Olive happened to already have some red and white striped pants and I picked up a red ruffled shirt and we had an instant Power Up Mushroom.  I found a generic princess costume for $9 at Marshalls, glued on a blue gem and made a crown out of craft foam and a dixie cup.  The boys just needed some red and green shirts, some overalls, and a couple cheap plungers.  It was a major success!





The weekend before Halloween, we went to Trunk or Treat at Mom and R's church.  The kids played on jumpies and Ivey loved the pony rides.  Olive even won a ribbon for her cute mushroom costume.  The weekend of Halloween, we went to Jeff's parents' church for their Trunk or Treat.  Needless to say, we have enough candy to last us 'till Easter.  These two events would have been great on their own, but we also found ourselves Trick-or-Treating oldschool in my aunt and uncle's neighborhood.  My cousin, Marissa, helped me as we walked the kids up the sidewalk.  I don't know if the kids thought it was all that cool, but I absolutely loved going door to door in their neighborhood.  It felt a little bit like 1985.