Halloween 2012

This year for Halloween I decided to finally chase a small dream of mine to hand-make our family themed costumes. Let me tell you, three girls and a very obviously pregnant mom makes for quite the challenge in coming up with a costume theme! In the end, I chose our theme based on a really cute idea for a hand-made chicken costume I found on pinterest- and Old McDonald's farm it was! 

Kyle was Old McDonald (minus a straw hat- which turned out to be absolutely impossible to find!), I was a (pot-bellied) pig (ha. ha.), Minnette was the aforementioned chicken, Aurelle was a sheep and Jovi was one very happy little cow!

Our very own little Bessie:

I am still so excited about how well Minnette's chicken costume turned out. The feet were Martha Stewart inspired, but Kyle-manufactured from: wait for it.... rubber kitchen gloves!

Our sweet little sheep:

A picture of all the farm animals together:

And one with farmer Dad:

Our apartment complex hosted a trunk or treat a couple of days before Halloween, which was the perfect opportunity to take the girls out for an edited version of trick-or-treating to get them nice and warmed-up and excited for the real thing a couple of days later.

Waiting in line for their very first trunk:

On Halloween night, we ended up heading over to a student-family Halloween carnival held on campus which had tons of kids games, lots of treats, jugglers, a bounce house and slide, a costume parade and contest... it was awesome and the girls loved it! Minnette even won an award for best homemade costume- I was one proud homemakin' Mama! ;)

We were so excited when both of the girls wanted (or were willing when forced) to get their faces painted (trying new things can sometimes be a challenge!)- here is the final product:

No face paint- but still super cute!

And after the party was over we headed out to do some good old trick-or-treating through a neighborhood near our apartment. We basically just went up and down one street, but our girls were loved every second of it, were very polite and said thank you at every door, and were nothing short of elated and exhausted as we drove home that night, ate a piece of candy and headed off to bed! It was a great Halloween, and Minnette is already counting down to next year's!