Halloween 2010

I have this thing about Halloween. It should be a no-big-deal holiday. Ya know, a little bigger than Presidents' day, but less than Thanksgiving...maybe similar to the 4th of July. It should take a little thought and even less money. (I'm cheap like that). So I DREAD Halloween every year. I don't want to spend $20/kid for costumes and I'm just NOT a sewer. But I have this AWESOME husband who has this creative gene...and can do amazing things with wood and other household "leftovers". So he made the kids some things for Halloween and then they searched their dress ups to find costumes to match (and their friends boxes and our own halloween box) and here is what they came up with:

Snake Eyes. (from GI Joe). Borrowed it from a friend. He couldn't stand to wear the mask. So he didn't.

a skeleton warrior (he was gonna wear a skeleton mask, but changed his mind at the last minute and went with the stitches and fake blood instead). Chris made him this sword, he actually made two of them, but luckily Jax only decided to carry one...he was struggling with one by the end of the night.

The Sorceress. Chris made this staff out of old vacuum cleaner parts (LONG LIVE THE SHOPVAC!). He spray painted it and then let kenzie decorate it. The coolest part is that he rigged it so that the ball lit up. It was pretty ingenious, but then again what else would we expect from chris?

The Spider. We bought it for Jax when he was 2..everyone except Jayden has worn it. It was warm and oh so cute.

the whole group ready to go out.

A close up of those cute little kids...ready to go trick or treating on saturday...yep, we went on saturday!

Hi, I'm the grinch of Halloween. Nice to meet you.