Happy Halloween

I love Halloween...It's just a fun Holiday filled with make-believe, dress-up, candy and spooky fun! I love the change in the seasons, the cooler weather, the harvest of crops, and the beautiful leaves changing color (which has been especially beautiful in Tennessee).

This Halloween I'm feeling pretty good about myself because I actually got some sewing done for the Holiday. Even though my sewing consisted of fabric strewn about the house by three little monkeys with Daniel crawling under the table trying to run the foot pedal for me. All the while Thomas is grabbing my thread at the top of the machine, rolling it across the table, tuning on and off my light, and messing with all of my settings. All Ellie wanted to do was cut (which is one of her favorite activities), so I gave her some scraps and some scissors. She was behaving and doing very well...so well in fact, that she cut up all of her scraps and then moved on to my pieces for my project. But all in all I was happy how everything came out.

I had this little onesie that Ellie and Thomas both wore when they were little, but it was just too small for Daniel. So I cut off the snaps and added some sleeves long sleeves and some length at the bottom for a cute little pumpkin shirt.

Voila! Cute as can be! (at least I think so anyways)

This was his real Halloween costume. Also a Jack-o-lantern.

I also made Ellie costume (with some help from my mom). She wanted to be a honey bee so I sewed this little jumper and used the cutest ribbon for the little stripes. With her t-shirt, leggings, head-band (specially made by Nana) and of course her heels, she looked pretty stinkin' cute!

And of course nothing could be more fitting for Thomas than a little Dragon. We went to the trunk-or-treat Saturday night at the church and played games, bobbed for apples and painted pumpkins. The kids got tons of candy and were on a sugar high for two days straight. Oh... the joys of Halloween.