Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

This year we dressed up in a theme for Halloween.  It was "lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!"

I made my bear hat, JJ's tiger dress, Dexter's lion hoodie and pants, and I painted oh my! on a shirt for Ashton.  Only a few people caught it at the ward trunk-or-treat, or rather, around-the-gym-treat.

 Here is a closer look at the kiddos:

Dexter's ended up being a hooded sweater vest and pants with a tail.  I ran out of fabric to add sleeves.  I free handed my patterns and just guessed on how much I needed.

JJ's went through several revisions and was even a different looking dress for a while that I didn't like.  Her's was the hardest to figure out.  I'm just not a fan of animal print and had a hard time liking it.  It turned out cute though.  It's an A-line pillow case style dress.  It has a black sash around the middle and then a black trim on the bottom. She was being a stinker and wouldn't stand up to take pictures.  She also has a tail.   At the party she wore black tights and boots.  Ashton taught her how to put her hands up and growl.  It was cute!  On our way tot he ward party, she broke her headband.  It is just a tube of ears that I slipped over a cheap little headband.  We had to make an emergency stop at Hy-Vee to get a new one.

I also drew whiskers and colored in their nose for the party.  Dex hated it and wanted it scrubbed off immediately when we got home.

On halloween, Dex and I carved our pumpkins.  He wanted a scary face on his and I tried to do spiders dangling on mine.

We also made a spider web and "brooms"  for a snack.

Our pumpkins greeting our trick-or-treaters.

We didn't buy very much stuff to pass out on Halloween night from our door.  I even had Ashton buy little bags of chips because I was sick of candy in the house and if we had leftovers, chips would be a welcome change.  Well, we were cleaned out of those and we started to give away Juliette's candy even.  We have never had more than 3 trick-or-treaters at our door in our whole married life.  It was pretty cool.  Dex had fun seeing all the different costumes as well.  

Because we did bags of chips, we apparently "tricked" a treater.  I put the chips in his bag and he looks down and says, "but that is a bag of chips!  HUH?!"  So funny.  

That was our Halloween this year!