For the fifth year in a row, we packed up the kids, the mini van (and the SUV) and headed over to our favorite camp site for the kick off of the Halloween season. This year, the kids were all expressing a desire to sort of be “their own thing” instead of doing a group costume so the moms came up with the concept of the US Olympics Team…year 2024 (which would be a summer games when our kids are between the ages of like 15-21). Most of the kids are in a sport currently so we thought they could still have a group costume, but personalize it in their own way. Brian and I spent some time learning how to prep a silk screen to make shirts. Jen from down the street and Auntie Denna (who came for a visit the week before we went camping), helped me put the ink on the shirts!

As always, a great time was had by all – roasting s’mores, dressing up, tie-dying pillow cases for trick-or-treating, the camp ground costume parade etc.

Here are pictures of our little (future) Olympians.

Logan was a lacrosse player (thinks that maybe this sport will go global by 2024 and be added to the olympics), Brady was the torch-bearer (took his job verrrrry seriously!) and Aiden was a tennis player (seen here before a serve)

  Little kids on stage…4-6 yr division (we lost in the most creative to a kid dressed as a construction worked and his friend dressed in a box as a building…totally fair)

The big kids on stage: 7-12 yr group. They lost to the two Indians on the left. The “vote” was by audience applause…we were chanting “USA – USA – USA”…we better ditch our standard back-row seats for front row seats and yell louder next year! No matter…we all got to go get loads of candy right after this and we got lots of compliments on the group effort :)

Fierce!

Sweet!

On Fire!