Homemade Halloween

This year we attempted to make our Halloween costumes (well, 2/3 of them at least). Jack wanted to be Thomas, of course, and the ones you can buy in the stores are pretty pitiful. We found some ideas online, saved a diaper box, and got to work. The only thing that's technically homemade on Anna's costume is her antennae (which she refused to wear most of the time), but we recycled pieces from her birthday outfit to create a butterfly. We just bought Sam's costume from Wal-Mart, but after all the work we put into making Thomas, the $8 costume was totally worth it - and boy does he make a cute giraffe!

Some of these pictures were taken a couple weeks ago when the kids dressed up for the first time and some of them were taken tonight before trick-or-treating.

This was Anna's first time in her costume and she was too busy checking it out to look at the camera for pictures.

She's flapping like a butterfly here.

The best one we got with all three of them.

Trick-or-treating

Stuffing their faces with candy after we headed home once it started raining.