Countdown to Halloween 2013!

It's one of my favorite times of the year- Fall!  I love the crisp air, and weather just cool enough for a sweater and jeans.  I had planned to go to the mall Saturday, and then a few costumes arrived in the mail and Leah and I couldn't wait to try ours on.

The little boys got excited and dressed up too.  It was also raining-unfortunately-- or maybe fortunately-- since we ended up doing the photo shoot in my garage!  I haven't dressed up for Halloween probably since Leah was 2.  It's something I always enjoyed doing even in college, so I finally got myself a costume and will be wearing it to the ward Trunk-or-Treat, and potentially if I take the kids around the neighborhood, or stay home and pass out candy.

It was a good trial run of make-up, which I will be doing up more on for the actual halloween festivities, and I'm in dyer need of some extremely long witchy nails!  Anyhoo, I love how the kids get so into their characters: Leah is Batgirl, Drew is a Ninja, and Landon is Spiderman (he is just crazy so only a few pics for him).

 Leah took my witch picture- didn't she do such a great job?:-)  She's the one person in the family besides me who knows who to take an in-focus picture-haha. Warning-- picture-overload!

**Disclaimer-- the photos of Drew with the machete were done in a very safe environment. There was absolutely no swinging around of that thing. He is a very responsible kid, and he held it only for about 2 minutes while we got the shot, and it was very carefully held in position each time.  So, no I don't give my kids machetes to play with, but for a great photo op, and  in a safe situation with a kid I trust to be responsible- yes:-)

Really wishing I hadn't cut her boot off in this shot.