Fall Festival and Halloween

This year I told Logan she could pick whatever she wanted to be, but she had to pick something that she and Brody could do together as a pair.  Initially, she decided she wanted to be Aurora and have Brody be Prince Phillip but changed her mind and decided she wanted to be Rapunzel and Pascal from Tangled.  We already had an Aurora dress that we got back when the Disney Store was clearancing (I know, totally a made up word) their costumes, so, I told her we couldn't go buy a new one but I'd make them their costumes.  

There was no pattern at all for the Pascal costume so I just kind of had to piece together the costume on my own, but I like how it turned out!  Most people thought he was a dinosaur...but a few people who knew the movie knew exactly who he was.

We got a wig to go with Logan's costume and she wore it for a long time while Skyping with my parents.  When she took it off Brody wanted a turn.  As soon as he saw himself on camera he couldn't stop giggling.  It was so funny.  I'm sure we'll pull this picture out for the wedding slideshow one day...

We took Logan trick-or-treating last year and it scared her pretty badly.  She saw some nasty people who thought it was funny to scare little girls and so Mike and I decided (after waking up with her for several weeks with nightmares) that we weren't going to do Halloween anymore.  It wasn't edifying and we couldn't see anything in it that resembled or honored Christ in any way.  So, we went to a fall festival at a local church--the kids got to dress up and play games and eat a little candy and we knew we could control what they were taking in with their little eyes.

Here they are ready to go!

Brody was so excited to see all of the different activities at the festival.  He really loved playing the bean bag toss games.

Logan had fun climbing hay mountain and bouncing in the bounce houses!  ...and posing for pictures, of course.

On Halloween, we got dressed up again and went around and got the freebies that some of the restaurants were offering.  We met up with our neighbors for breakfast at Krispy Kreme for free donuts!  (For the record, Halloween was no different than any other day at our house--Logan spends 90% of her time in dress up attire)

Logan did decide to bust out the Aurora costume for the morning:

Then we came home, got changed and headed out for a free chick-fil-a lunch!

We had a meal to deliver that evening, otherwise we would have gone to a few more places for their costume freebies.  It was a fun day out but the kids were WIPED that night.  I'm not sure we would have even made it out trick-or-treating if we had wanted to!