Halloween at our house

This year Halloween wasn't exactly how we had planned it. It started off by us first asking Jackson what he wanted to be. Since he's almost 3 now I figured I should get his input. Last year he was too little to know what was going on, so we just chose for him and he was fine with it. We did take him trick or treating last year....but it was cold and he was tired, so it ended with him crying because he wanted a lollipop and all people were giving him was chocolate.
This year was bound to be better, upon asking him what he wanted to be these were the most popular responses: "Peter Pan (he loves watching Disney's Peter Pan), Captain Hook, Star Wars (perferrably with a gun), and I dunno (whatever that is)." Disney makes a wicked amazing Peter Pan and Captain Hook costume, which are apparently the 2 most popular 3 yr old costume ever. They were sold out a month before Halloween. On to plan b.) deciding on something and convincing Jackson that's indeed exactly what he wanted to be.
Plan b seemed to be going as planned. We chose a Woody costume for Jax, confident that we could easily convince him since he could carry a gun:) now onto the hard part, deciding and getting costumes for Danny and I.
Now I don't know about Danny, but I enjoy dressing up and coming up with clever costumes for us to wear together. I dressed up for Halloween as a kid every year. Most years my mom helped create and sew all of our costumes. Now that I'm an adult, I get to do it by myself;)
Last year we went as Mr. and Mrs. Potato head and Jax was our green adopted alien:)
This year we settled on Jesse, Stinky Pete the Prospector, and of course Woody. Also know as Woodys roundup:
















This is as close of a shot I got of Jackson in his costume, but as you can tell, we look awesome. Danny and I made our costumes by ourselves. I made all our clothes and Danny made his hat and axe. I wish I'd gotten a picture of Danny at our ward party, cuz we added a fake beard for that one and it looked awesome. But all things considered, I love how they came out. I was proud of all the inventive ideas we just came up with by putting our heads together and trying things out. Danny did a great job on his hat and axe, and they came out better than I ever expected!
We went to our friends ward trunk or treat earlier this week and then on Halloween, Danny's work had a big office trick or treat and after that jax was pretty much done. We did take him to our neighbor Gwen's house, cuz we promised we'd stop by, but beyond that we just came home and handed out candy to neighbor kids while Jackson was sleeping.
Jackson + lots of candy = crazy Jackson. And no one likes a crazy cranky miserable almost 3 yr old. No one.
Also since we don't keep candy around the house often I learned a very important lesson this Halloween. Candy makes you feel like crap and crash hard, making 9:00pm seem like midnight. And then you have a hard time waking up, and you wish that candy never existed. Moral to this story: candy is bad for you, just say no!
(Although Reese's pumpkins are my favorite-just sayin)