We just got back last night from our 7th neighborhood, and our 4th annual Halloween, camping trip. We had a new family join us this year – so fun…added 3 MORE boys to the mix!! Love it! Sadly, one of the “usual suspects” had a conflict so…this time it was 11 kids and 8 adults for 2 nights of camping fun. The forecast called for rain and guess what…not a drop fell on the camping site! The weather was cool, but comfortable, sunny and perfect! There is nothing left to say except for…..PICTURES!!!

OH…the costume theme this year was “killer bees”…we also had 1 queen bee. I made the bee wings with bent electrical wire (that I found in our basement), covered with black panty hose, secured with yellow duct tape and decorated with yellow fabric paint. The shirts were just black tee shirts with strips of yellow duct tape. The army helmets were from the party store – I hot glued on black pipe cleaners for the antennas and all the guns were made from paper towel & toilet paper rolls covered in silver duct tape. Our queen bee sported a pageant ribbon I made using stencils and black fabric paint.

 

Watch out! The forest is filled with a swarm of killer bees!!!!

 

Not a big fan of pictures spotlighting my rear end, but me and 2 of my sons is far too cute not to post.

AJ and Aiden being totally bored during the costume contest. They did it way different this year….they decided the “winners” of each category by having the audience yell. The categories were: cutest, scariest, funniest and most original. AJ got pulled down to represent the group (since there was no group contest this year) for “most original” and he lost to a little boy wearing a store-bought Thomas the Train costume because “Thomas’s” family was sitting closer and screamed louder than us. Aiden cried when they lost. I had to explain to him that it was sort of a fake contest and that the little boy wearing Thomas was almost crying because his family was screaming at him so they decided to make him the winner (all true).

The only problem with this year’s costume is that it was hard to keep track of your particular children as there are groups of them who look similar in height and build. For example: Dustin, Brady and Matt. These three were “peeps”. In this picture, Brady and Matt have suckers that they stole from Ella and AJ’s bags (Ella and AJ had to leave trick or treating early to go to hockey practice in the area…they came back right before bed time).

Just a fun picture

So….there are no other pictures from camping. Brian took out the camera during the costume portion of the weekend, snapped over 150 shots and then put it back in the car. Obviously we know who’s most important  - the kids!! But before we go…here’s a creepy picture of me:

and a not creep picture of me: