This is Halloween

Good idea: sewing your kids' Halloween costumes.  Bad idea: sewing your kids' Halloween costumes when you don't know how to sew.

That's right.  I had intended to learn to sew for several years and decided to teach myself by sewing Haley's and Carter's costumes.  Carter's Jedi costume?  Easy.  Done in one evening.  Haley's Alice in Wonderland costume?  Not so much.

 Here's me: "I'll just buy a pattern for a princess dress and alter it.  It'll be easy!" Well, three sleep-deprived weeks later I finally finished.  The low point came the week before Halloween when I slept for only four hours one night and pulled an all-nighter the next.  And then that evening we took the kids on a Halloween haunted cruise and I was the scariest of all the zombies there.

The finished products:

This was about the best shot of Adam & Drew we got.  The elders were far too busy preaching the gospel to stop and pose for a picture!

We had a nice time at our ward Halloween party where Haley won the "My Mom Stayed Up All Night" prize for her costume and Drew won a massive cupcake at the cake walk.

We carved pumpkins,

... and tried to brave the monsoon to go trick-or-treating.  We made it to the house across the street before we gave up and went trick-or-treating at the mall instead.  After about an hour the rain stopped so we were able to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood, and Alice ran into her friend the Mad Hatter.

All said, we had a fun Halloween.  But next year I'm going to start sewing costumes in August!