PHEW!!!...

Halloween is terrifying!  I'm not a crafty person, I don't sew or own a sewing machine, so it is absolutely frightening when my girls tell me what they have decided to be for Halloween.  I get anxious about it every year, scared to death that I won't be able to make their Halloween fantasies into reality.  Each year I pray that they will choose something I can find easily and order off Amazon, but they rarely do.

This year the horror stuck first when Alyssa announced that she wanted to be the Cactus from Plants Vs. Zombies

and then it struck again when Holly decided to be a slurpee.   A deep pit formed in my stomach and the the sleepless nights ensued.  Was this a nightmare? Couldn't I just order an Anna and Elsa costume on the line and call it good?  Unfortunately, my girls would have never been content with that.  So, I did what any good mom would do...I dug out the duct tape and safety pins and got to work...

I also had to figure out what I was going to wear to Zumba on Halloween morning and a costume for Q and Ben.  Ahhh!

 This is how it all worked out...

For zumba I turned Alyssa's Barbie dress up into a Jem costume.
Holly's slurpee costume is held together with duct tape and safety pins...
hope it makes it through the day. 

Q was the sweetest little beggar ever!

"Are We Not All Beggars?"  this was my favorite talk from
General Conference, so we went with this theme for
Trick or Treating

Ayzha, Tiago and Reyn showed up as a nerd, a storm trooper, and Olaf.  

And this was our porch

PHEW!!!