Halloween 2009

Well, Halloween has come and gone again. I know that it is Gibson's favorite holiday, and I think that Hayden is not far behind him in that opinion. I can't blame them, though. Not only do you get to dress up as your favorite character, but you have access to unlimited candy. If Mom doesn't catch you, it might even be possible to eat enough to make yourself sick! (We had a couple complaining of tummy aches.) Halloween went on for three days at our house. We had the school carnival on Thursday, Dad's center had their festival on Friday and then the kids trick or treated in the neighborhood on Saturday. We have oodles of candy at our house! This year, Grace was a hippy, (She asked me what hippies do and I said, vote for world peace. That subject was a little more rich than I cared to get into!) Gibson was Wolverine, (He changed his mind every day about what he wanted to be. What he didn't know, was that since we already had the costume, he was always going to be Wolverine. Thankfully, I was able to present it as though it was his idea and he was thrilled.) Hayden was Buzz Lightyear, and Landry was a dinosaur.

Here we are in the front yard on Friday night. Right as I was taking the picture, Gibson raised his bag and covered Landry. Then I couldn't get anyone that still again. The night before at the school, several of the kids had vampire teeth and Gib just had to have a pair. We never could find any the night before, but that morning at school, his teacher gave everyone a set. Gib was so excited. He saved them all day, so that he would look tough in his costume, and put them in for this picture. I literally snapped this picture and Gib grabbed those teeth out of his mouth and threw up in the front yard! He has a really good gag reflex. After we got him washed up, and I stopped laughing, we finished the rest of our pictures.

Here are the boys looking tough.

Here was the bottom of Landry's outfit. She refused to wear the head, but the tail was super cute.

Gibson was convinced he had super powers and was climbing the tree.

Landry was very concerned and was trying to drag him down.

At the end, Landry had enough and refused to be in any more pictures. The older three were being very sweet.

This was Landry. She was in full protest on the ground.

Believe it or not, a little candy did fix this situation.