good-bye, October!

Hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

Here's a peak at this year's simple, easy costumes:

Romney went as Napoleon Dynamite.  And he was in character most of the night.  Oh my.  Hilarious.

His borrowed wig was perfect...except for the color (Napoleon was a red-head), and the shedding (notice his hairy armpit...not part of the costume, just spare curls from the crazy wig!).  Wish you could've seen him do the dance.  So funny!  I've never seen the movie, but I don't need to, after Romney's Halloween performance.

Taylor dressed up as a BYU football fan.  

He wore a cool BYU vintage-style pilot cap, given to us by a friend, and a BYU sweatshirt.    

Sam wanted to be a superhero.  He bought a Thor mask and a dollar store ax, and together with a black cape, he made a very brave looking barbarian superhero.

The girls wanted to dress up as some kind of princess or fairy.  So, we decided to make them "snow fairies."  We sewed up quick sparkly silver skirts, made up their hair and face with glittery snowflakes,  and in their velveteen capes, they looked darling!  They even made little snowflake wands out of sticks, silver pipe cleaner, and glittery snowflake ornaments.  Cute, cute!

We made homemade caramel popcorn and watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.  Then we celebrated Brandon's birthday with a yummy chili dinner.  We all went out trick-or-treating, and visited with lots of friends in the neighborhood.  We had a great holiday.

I'm sad to see October go...I love the beautifully colored leaves and crisp fall air.  We've had such perfect weather here, and we've enjoyed our last weeks of outside-all-day play.  I love fall!!  Now, dearest November, be kind and give us more of this beautiful fall sunshine!!