Thanks for Halloween

I went through my photos and triumphantly emerged with photographic evidence of Halloweens past. Note the amount of recycling costumes my kids like to do. I am ALL for it.

2020 - pandemic version, all recycled but with the requisite face masks

2019 - just won the World Series version, Lars had the strangest costume this year. Matt and I were Axl Rose and Slash, will need to find that photo and add it later. This was the first year I wasn’t a witch. I’m always a witch.

2018 - we spent this Halloween in Utah. Ida’s Nancy Drew costume that we cobbled together the day before at Deseret Industries, is one of my faves ever.

2017 - old-school scary and the final sighting of the butterfly

2016 - old-school scary, plus butterfly

2015 - Star Wars forever

2014 - ghosts and monkey

2013 - ghosts and frog

2012 - the famous monkeys, these were a big dress-up favorite for years

2011 - first sighting of the monkeys

2010 - butterfly again for Ida, and Theo refused to dress up

2009 - happy-go-lucky butterfly and miserable frog

2008 (the Halloween that will live in infamy, when I trick-or-treated while carrying 2-week-old Ida and then went into full-blown mastitis mode within hours)(Theo was a BYU football player, and I had bought a brown sleeper for Ida to be a football, but she was tiny so it was way too big)

2007 - Mommy’s little mummy

I guess we didn’t dress up before we had kids, or at least we didn’t take any pictures. That’s the earliest Halloween photo I have. I do remember spending Halloween 2006 at our friends’ the Fillmores’. Am I making up that memory? I don’t know. I think I remember driving to their Arlington apartment straight from work for a party. And I was quite pregnant. We were in the middle of moving from DC to VA.

I am very thankful for fun holiday traditions that my kids love and therefore I love.