5 November 2025

Being on furlough meant that I had plenty of time to spend on Halloween costumes.  Super fun!  This year Nut Brown wanted us to dress up as the lead characters in his favorite video game, Final Fantasy 7.  He bought his costume with some of his first salary from his first job and was so happy when he wore it.  I made D's red cape, and Nut Brown made the gold armor.  Here they are a little early, trying everything on.  D is so happy to be included with Nut Brown - look at his smile.

D loved his costume so much that he made one for his pumpkin too.

Here we are all dolled up at the ward trunk-or-treat:

Way back in September, Rosebud came home and told me that she and her two friends from school were going to trick-or-treat as the Kpop Demon Hunters main characters together.  They had many planning sessions and started learning the songs together too.  I decided to buy the costume, and then we dyed her hair pink and Nut Brown and Mr. Brown made her weapon - they did an amazing job!

Their friends live in a neighborhood with really big lots, so a lot of people have riding lawnmowers.  They hook up trailers to the lawnmowers and decorate them, and then drive their kids from house to house.  It was totally fun!  We had a speaker with music on ours, and waved at friends when we passed them - it was like participating in a parade.  And as a bonus, when the kids got tired, we didn't have to coax them to walk back to the house or car... they just sat down and we cruised on back.

Back home going through the haul.  Rosebud was disappointed in the smallness of the swapping circle - just her and D this year.  Plenty of candy though!  D told me that he felt that their friends had very bad trick-or-treating etiquette - they didn't say "Trick or treat!" or "Thank you".

Nut Brown also went out with one of his D&D friends, who was also dressed as a video game character.  They stopped back in to eat and then headed back out around 9 pm to "clean out" any bowls of candy that were still out on porches.  The friend is an only child and he is very polite and also very curious about our younger children.  Children are very interesting to him because he doesn't know anything about them.

And Rose Pink, at college, dressed up as Derpy Tiger. :) 

Mr. Brown and I were invited to an adults-only Halloween party (our first!) which was billed as a 'villain convention'.  We dressed up as Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein.  It was such a fun party!  And all the experimenting with make-up that we got to do was a lot of fun too.

Halloween is our favorite holiday!