Trick or Treat

Finally, an update!! This halloween season has been fun! For those of you who don't know my husband that well, he is all about the holidays. He loves holidays. Each year as a holiday is approaching, he tells me all the cool and new things he wants us to do from candy, to gifts, to decorating, to lights, to parties, to streamers, you name it, he wants to do it. I'm a little different, I'm more like Scrooge. I think about how much money it will cost, how much time it will take up and then I try to tell him gently that it isn't in our budget. I always feel so stingy when these conversations come up but I have learned to give a little and hes learned to hold back a little so I think we're making progress. Really, holidays are much more fun with Nathan because he always wants to make them special.

This year, Nathan wanted to do really cool outfits for halloween. He's been thinking about it since Benny was born. He wanted to go for outfits that matched eachother, so after going through tons of alternatives we settled on Peter Pan. Benny was Peter Pan of course, Nathan was Hook, and I was Wendy. We went to Value Village and Good Will and found materials for our costumes. We bought a regular coat for Nathan and then with fabric glue, and borrowed fabric I transformed it into a pirate coat. We also bought Benny a green shirt and girls tights. I modified the shirt and dyed the tights green and my mom made really cute brown shoes to go with it. It was perfect! We celebrated the holiday by having a halloween party with both sets of our parents. We ate pizza and watched "Monsters vs. Aliens." It was great.

the old neverland gang together again

that peter pan, looking youthful as ever

a little too much rum, captain Hook

our scary, spider infested abode