Costumes, costumes...

At the annual Trunk-or-Treat. Mark and the kids in front of The Beast.

Elina as "The Whale" at the church carnival. (That 's Jonah as a stick figure). (Ser ni Söte Göte?)

With Halloween comes Trunk-or-Treat, school parties, regular Trick-or-Treat, MOUNTAINS of candy and tons of fun. And this year we also had a Carnival at the church with a Scripture themed array of costumes. Elina's favorite Bible character is The Whale, in Jonah and The Whale. She made her costume by herself. She drew it onto the cardboard (Mark cut it out) and then she drew eyes and mouth and painted it. I helped fasten it at the end. Isak wanted to be Joseph Smith after some deliberation. This allowed him to wear parts of Indiana Jones costume. To be more 'period accurate' he wore his Norwegian folk costume shirt with a vest over it, and got away with donning Indy's hat. He put a Book of Mormon in the bag and called himself a prophet.

He had planned to use most of last year's Star Wars costume for an Old Testament prophet, but decided at the last minute he really wanted to find a way to wear his Indiana Jones hat. Clever, huh?

Indiana Jones and Fuzzy Pink Cat before heading off to school this morning. I will never, ever sew anything in that dreadful fuzzy material again.

This costume has recieved more delighted outbursts and comments than any other costume any of our children have worn pervious years. I brought Anja to the store with me like this and everyone squealed and remarked on it. Same thing when we came to the kids' school. Pippi just soaked it all up. I had to alter the costume because it was too big. But this means she can be Pippi next year again, and the year after that if her Pippi-obsession keeps up.

Julia's first Halloween. Slept through most of today's festivities. Thanks Sarah for letting us use this costume for the second time.
The Fairy Godmother.