Halloween...

Yes, I know it was already a week ago! But I wanted to share my cute boys in their Halloween costumes on here.

I may have made a bit of a mistake last year... that is that I bought Blue a costume out of a bag. Now there is nothing wrong with buying a costume out of a bag, other than I don't want him to think that every year he can just pick whatever costume he wants and I will buy it for him. That kind of takes the fun out of Halloween for me. So this year he found some cheaply made Ninja costume that he wanted for $20 and I said, "nope... sorry". I tried to explain that part of the fun of Halloween is to make our costumes and go on a search to find the things that we need for them! I showed him this blog post about the costumes she has made for her kids and when he laid eyes on Luke Skywalker it was all over! He HAD to be Luke... even though we have never watched the Star Wars movies. So Luke it was...

I followed Miss Sheena's tutorial on using a women's white sweatshirt for the tunic. Brilliant! I made the white pants out of an old bed sheet that we had laying around and the pouch out of some old tan chords that Blue wore to church forever and are too small now. We thrifted the belt for $1 at DI and borrowed the light saber from his cousin. The cowboy boots... well, that was his little touch ;).

I paid less than $7 to put this costume together. I love that!

And our little pumpkin boy had this hat put on his head enough that he finally got used to it and didn't care anymore. I had a long sleeved white onsie under his other onsie on Halloween because it was pretty chilly. I'm suddenly super bad at taking pictures of my kids or getting out my camera on days like this. So I re-dressed him up a few days later and took this picture. Someday I will get it all figured out!