Halloween 2012

Halloween 2012 was a big hit!  The weather was so wonderful and the kids really had a great time trick-or-treating.  Emily and Christian were out an hour and a half--a new record!  Kari and Juliana were out for about 45 min before they got tired and we came home. 

Here are the costume breakdowns: 

Emily was a "princess vampire."  Originally, she had wanted to be just a vampire with full-on blood and gore.  I persuaded her to add the princess part, minus the blood.  She had purple vampire fangs to match her purple vampire dress (a dress that my mom had made for me years ago when I was Sleeping Beauty).  She was happy to paint her face white, lips red, and have pink hair.

Christian was a werewolf!  He was very adamant that he wanted to be a werewolf with a scary werewolf mask.  Mission accomplished.

Kari was a pink ballerina.  Her costume changed with her mood...as evident in the first picture in which I made her keep her tutu on.  (She wanted it off, and, got her way after picture time.)  Kari also got the pink hair.

Juliana was "The Cow."  Each of the kids has been the cow for their first Halloween.  Funny enough, the size of the costume is a 12 mo. costume and has worked out perfectly for each.  Emily and Kari being more on-target for their age/size wore it when they were 9/10 months old.  Christian and Juliana, both very big for their age, have worn it at 5/6 months and it fit them just as well!  Ha!

 We went out with our whole neighborhood gang.  The big kids were very speedy and got waaaayyy ahead of the little kiddos.  Thankfully, we had a lot of adults to keep track of everyone.  One of said adults was Uncle Kyle!  He came over after work and gave us a hand keeping track of the kids and carrying Kari when she got tired or too far behind.

This is sweet Kari and Campbell, getting their candy.  It was Kari's first Halloween really knowing what was going on and she had a lot of fun saying "trick or treat!" in her little Kari voice.

Good weather, cute kids, good night!