Halloween!

Well, here I am, blogging about Halloween three days late. Really, I'm blogging about it a week late, because the pictures I'm posting are actually from our church's trunk or treat (trick or treating from the the backs of cars) from last weekend! 

I'll go ahead and state right out that I'm that crazy woman that spends 40+ hours making Halloween costumes that get seen for less than two hours...but it was fun, ok?  And although maybe it was silly to go to the work of embroidering Halloween costumes, we're most definitely going to keep those shirts now and re-purpose them for later costumes.  (also, random side note: a slightly nerdier alternate reality version of myself DEFINITELY would have been a cosplayer--you know, one of those kids that dresses up crazy for anime conventions. Cause boy do I like spending forever making a costume!)  Anyways.  Without further ado, behold: Jesse and I as Russian peasants, and our pet siberian tiger! 

The trunk or treat was FREEZING but a total blast.  Our friends Megan and Jordan set up a carnival in their trunk and busted out some silly costumes, which all the kids loved:

Sort of surprisingly, Nikolai really enjoyed himself! First of all, there were doughnuts, which is an obvious win, but he also got the hang of walking around to people's trunks and getting candy placed in his bag.  We tried to get him to say "please" at the very least, but as it turns out the first piece of candy he got was a lollipop and he was too busy sucking it later to say much of anything. 

Nikolai did spot his BFF Hyrum, and they had a fun time chasing each other around the cars in the parking lot.

And finally, my favorite part of Niko's costume:

That little tiger tail dragging on the ground. SO CUTE!!!  

Yay for a fun Halloween!