Costumes 2017

Well, first, before the costumes, we started the day with homemade apple cider donuts. Today was also TM's birthday, and though he prefers to celebrate it not on Halloween, we do his birthday breakfast on the actual day.



I've had a couple of people ask me for the recipe. I'll try to share it with you tomorrow. It's actually pretty easy, and makes some very tasty donuts.

This was a pretty low-key Halloween for us this year. P. stayed home in case anyone came to the door. (They didn't... a huge change from passing out 500+ pieces of candy in one night.) TM and D. went to a friend's house. A. went to work. (She is now working at a restaurant.) So that left the six younger ones. Most of them took responsibility for their own costume.

G. went as a green ninja.

Y. and L. were box trolls. L. was Fish and Y. was Shoe. J. also had a box, which the girls labelled Eggs, which he wore for a while during Trick-or-Treating. But Y.'s very large box proved difficult to maneuver with, so he traded boxes with her. No, I didn't get a picture of J. in his box. (Sorry, M.)

K. was a police officer.

H. had decided she didn't want to dress up this year, but at the last moment, A. helped her put together a costume, and H. went as Alice in Wonderland, complete with White Rabbit.

R. was a princess. I was relieved that this still fit her, though it was a bit short. We still don't have my sewing area quite sorted out into usable-ness yet, so sewing wasn't in the cards.

We did some Trick-or-Treating, enough to give us a big bowl full of candy, but my goodness it was cold. All in all, it was a fine holiday.

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