Halloween 2009

Last year, about this time, we had recently visited England, so for Halloween, Talea was a damsel in distress, Hyatt was a knight, and Kiersa was a dragon.


We had so much fun with doing a theme last year that this year I continued the tradition. The kids were the 3 little pigs and the medium bad wolf. The girls were the pigs and Hyatt was the wolf. Hyatt insisted that he wasn't "big" since he wasn't a grown up, and he wasn't small since he's not a baby, so he was the medium bad wolf.


Pailsi actually HATED the pig nose and had a hard time tolerating the hat. She about went crazy for the 30 seconds she had the pig nose on.


Hyatt only wore the fangs for this picture because since they were too big for his mouth, they made him drool down his chin, and he couldn't stand that.

Here are my two piggies up close who would actually wear the noses.


These costumes were actually pretty simple to make and consisted mostly of clothes the kids already had. The fake fur was awful though with it's realistic shedding. I love the pig tails, though they were constantly crushed and misshapen from the kids sitting down.


We went to a trunk-or-treat at the church...




and the kids got LOADED with candy! Kiersa isn't pictured above because she was always off in the arms of various young women so I never got a chance to snap her picture before I forgot about it. We went home after that and did a second trunk-or-treat at a nearby church and then hit some homes around the neighborhood. Hyrum wasn't with us because he had gone to the temple with the youth and his ride brought him home later than the others. I definitely appreciate the help I get from Hyrum because one day and a night of trick-or-treating without him made me realize how much of my burden he lightens.

Speaking of Kiersa in the arms of others, every time I take her to a park, she's a magnet for other kids. She can't play without someone wanting to hold her hand, hug her, lead her around, or what not. People are just drawn to her. Buuuut, when we were in Rexburg, we went to a park where she finally encountered her nemesis. A little boy there, from the time we arrived, went around telling her "No!" every time she wanted to play on something and he actually got pretty bullyish. I was surprised since this never happens with Kiersa. Eventually, the bully did something nasty to her when I wasn't looking, leaving Kiersa screaming and crying. The boy's mother saw it and quickly started scolding the boy, and when I got to her, Kiersa was pointing her finger at the boy, crying, "Mean!!! Owiee!!" The rest of our time there, she kept pointing and saying "Mean!" Maybe you had to be there, but it was hilarious.