It always seems that as soon as Halloween is over, it is a made dash to the New Year. Which now for us is fun because it is Lainie's birthday, but this time of year is my favorite and it seems to come and go so fast that I feel a little dissappointed that it's gone.
The kids this year (as you can see) all followed some kind of theme for costumes. Riley is cotton candy, Baylor is a "Crunch" bar, Payton is a bag of jelly beans, and Lainie is candy corn! It was fun to make the costumes this year (to me that is what Halloween is: deciding what you want to be and getting creative in pulling it off) they were all really into the trick-or-treating except for Riley, who I had to talk into dressing up for her school party, and trick-or-treating! I can't believe that I am to the point in my life where my oldest doesn't want to trick-or-treat anymore! I'm not that old!
In preperation for Halloween I took the kids to pick out their pumpkins for carving! Todd has been so busy with work lately that this is the first year he hasn't made it with us to pick pumpkins! It was weird doing it without him, but we took lots of great pictures to make it up to him!
So some of you might notice the time that I entered this blog: 5:15 AM! This whole day-light savings thing is KILLING me! Lainie hasn't changed her clock and I am afraid that I will be up at 5:15 every morning until APRIL!
Anywho! I have started discussing with a friend of mine what to do for our kids for Christmas. It is always so hard to figure out what they will really enjoy, what they will play with longer than just Christmas morning, and what they need! Even though my kids really don't need anything! It is harder for me now that Riley and Baylor are getting older and the kinds of things they want are $250 each!
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We decided to try something new this year. I always find that Christmas and Chanukah come and go and we have 100 toys each and then 3 weeks later they are still only using one of them. So this year we made a deal with the kids. We are going to Disneyland for the week of Christmas and we will buy no presents. At first I thought that they might revolt, but surprisingly they were all very excited. They just wanted to know that Santa would be able to find them. We told them yes. Santa will come but that is it. They are all excited and do not care if they get to "open" anything. They are just excited to go somewhere. If this works out then I might decide to do it every other year. We have already bought everything and we spent about HALF of what we normally would for the holidays. Including hotel, gas, tickets, and food.
I love the costumes!! Your kids are so cute!
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