Throwback Thursday :: Personal Halloween

It’s a #throwbackthursday episode on the blog!  This week, HALLOWEEN!  I’ve shared some of my favorites below, from Halloween 2006, my first year with my own trick-or-treaters, and the next ten years of Tricks and Treats!

2006: I had a homemade pea in a pod.  We went trick-or-treating with my Sister, the Pirate, that year.

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2007: I had a scarecrow.  Freaking adorable, and homemade again! 🙂  We met up with Dorothy and the cowardly lion for some trick-or-treating

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2008: We added another trick-or-treater to our family 🙂  Madalynn filled out the pea in the pod costume again, and poor Derik, I made him a carrot, for peas and carrots……  Yeah, homemade again 😉

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2009: My babies are growing up!!  This year we did a ‘monsters’ theme: Frankenstein and a ghost.  And once again, I still had enough energy for homemade costumes 😉

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2010:  SO darling!  I had a knight in shining armor and a renaissance princess.  Notice I ran out of energy for the homemade costumes 😉

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2011: This set is tied for my favorite set.  My two superheroes, Wonder Woman and Superman.  Freaking adorable, right??

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2012: I think the Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood costumes are my favorite set so far!  But, we are huge HP fans at my house.

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2013: This year I had Merida from Brave and The Lone Ranger.

 

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2014: This year, we added another trick-or-treater to the family!  I wasn’t feeling it too much on the costumes, although I found this SUPER adorable Humpty Dumpty costume at Goodwill, but Andrew wasn’t sitting up solo yet, and it would have needed a sitting baby to make it the best!

Then aren’t my kids getting so big?!  I had a candy corn witch and some sort of army man 🙂

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2015: We all did some dressing up for Halloween this year!  We had a butterfly, I was a chef, an adorable monkey, and I am still trying to figure out what my oldest was…… 🙂

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2016: We had another fun year of dressing up for Halloween!  I had a Kylo Ren, a Peacock, and a Mr. Bones 🙂  These ages made this year super fun!

And if you know me, you know I’m a BIG Harry Potter fan.  This year we actually WON tickets to The Academy of Children’s Theater Harry Potter party, so we dressed up in our Harry Potter costumes.  My kids still fit in their Gryffindor and Ravenclaw house robes, yay 🙂  I made a slipcover with feathers so my toddler could go as Hedwig, Harry’s owl.  He had a cute owl mask, but of course, toddlers.  Then I dressed up as Hermoine after she had drank the Polyjuice Potion 🙂  Clever, right?!

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2017:  It was a windy Halloween in 2017!  Totally makes for good photos, if you’re quick about it haha.  My kids are still dressing up (YES!), as an assassin, a phoenix, and of course, Batman (curly long blonde hair and all!).

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2018:  So I love me some DIY costumes, for a few reasons.  Most costumes you get from the store in the $10-$20 range are the cheapest quality and basically suck.  I feel like you can get more creative if you take a DIY approach, you’ll have more of a costume that people might remember.  But sometimes, you will look back and think…. what was going on there?! hahaha.  This year, my Son was some sort of gun-slinging, hard-helmet-wearing, and still-getting-good-use-out-of-that-‘trench’-coat character.  My Daughter…. some sort of fox/cat/lemur (my favorite weird DIY so far!).  And my youngest, Batman, again.

2019: Again, another year of hodge-podge, and reusable costumes! When it comes to holidays, it’s nice to save some dollars on retail costs (YIKES!) and make a unique costume. My Daughter was a steampunk gal, youngest was Spiderman with muscles (thanks for the extra warmth with those muscles haha), and my oldest…. we don’t have a name for what he was….