I don't have pictures from trick or treating tonight. Our cameras weren't working. This year we all had costumes on the same theme. I dressed as a king, Susie was a queen, Braxton and Tavin were knights. Susie and sewed the costumes together. This was particularly helpful for Susie and I. We had to make my costume extra tall. We had to adjust Susie's costume to accommodate her baby bump.
Overall, I like how the costumes worked out. Susie's costume is particularly impressive. We had more than one person ask us tonight if she had been in a play.
I think that she make a beautiful queen.
Braxton really got in the role of a knight. For the past several weeks he will randomly get in character and ask his king or queen for a quest. Before we left the house for trick or treating, He stood straight and still at the front of the driveway facing forward. I finally figured out that he was imitating one of those English guards. He wouldn't respond to anything around him. Finally, I stood in front of him and made funny faces at him. He soon cracked and broke character, but accused me of cheating. Apparently, I wasn't supposed to make him laugh.
We made Braxton and Tavin's costumes first to see if we could figure out the whole sewing thing. This means that for the past month the boys have been trying to sneak on their costumes. We have a whole box full of costumes for them, and they like to dress up. After today, these costumes will go in the box with the rest, available for day to day dress up.
Tavin struggled mightily with his shield. He just never seemed to remember that he had it. I think we had to go looking for it at least 3 times at the ward party to see if we could find the last place he had left it.
So not so many pictures of me. That is fairly typical. Of course I wonder who could blame me. Susie is an amazing model. I think that the camera loves her almost as much as I do. We made my costume after we finished the boys', gradually working up to Susie's dress. As we neared completion, we discovered that we didn't have the foot for the sewing machine that would let us easily make the button holes.Somewhere in the 3 moves since we lived in Syracuse we had misplaced the accessories for the sewing machine. Eventually we sewed the buttons to the front and sewed on snaps to keep it closed.
The costume is pretty fancy, but I think that in order to really get that I am suppose to be a king, I need to be wearing a crown. Unfortunately, we haven't got to that part yet.
This is one of the advantages of living in Waco. We get two growing seasons each year, one in the spring and one in the fall. The week before school started we prepared this strip at the side of our lot and planted tomatoes. They seem to be growing well and we hope to start harvesting another crop of tomatoes soon. I think that Susie is rightly proud of this and the rest of our garden areas.
One nice thing about our backyard is that we have so many good places to take pictures.
You can see the garden behind Susie down the slope of backyard. Our project starting next spring will be to start putting retaining walls.
This was at the Fall Festival at church. Both both enjoyed trying to catch the donuts.
Braxton and Tavin have started to expect face painting at activities. When they asked Tavin what he wanted he first asked for a "BU" before he saw that he could get a rainbow instead.
Tavin is presenting his other check to be painted.
See, I told you that the camera loves her.
I think Braxton and Tavin are pretty much the perfect age for Halloween.
