Halloween!

Halloween never gets old. I love thinking of costumes, seeing everyone else's ideas, and eating lots of SWEETS! This year we were lucky enough to have 2 different excuses to dress up -- a party the week before Halloween and Halloween night. The only sad thing was not getting to dress up as a teacher at school this year.

So our first costume was from a children's book (James says it's famous) that I didn't know until he introduced me... If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Every time James eats cookies, he always wants milk. And he always quotes, "Well, if you give a mouse a cookie..." which I didn't understand at first. He found the book in the store and proved to me it was a real book, so now it's one of our favorite little stories. I read it to him every night. Ok, no, but I did get it for our anniversary as a little joke. And it's not just any book; it has 4 of those If You Give a ____ a _____ stories in it with recipes and songs! What's not to like? Anyway, our costume idea bloomed into this...

So then on actual Halloween, we dressed up like this....

And when I was wrapping James up with sheet strips, I was reminded of one of my all-time favorite costumes...

Courtney and I were Egyptian mummies for a ward party, and everyone was probably jealous that they didn't think to wear gold face paint. ha I don't even look like myself. Oh, how I miss Courtney.

This year, we only had 1 round of trick-or-treaters, but that's probably because we turned our light off after they came, or word got around that we only gave out 1 piece of candy. Either way, we had a great time, and I'm happy I still have candy left over to eat for the next few weeks!