Halloween Preview

This year we chose to dress up as Saints again. Since I was on the ball, we had our costume discussions back in September and ordered what we needed from a costume shop I found on the web. Emily decided to dress up as Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, an American Indian who lived in the 1600's. We read all about her in Kateri Tekakwitha, Mowhwak Maiden by Evelyn Brown, a beautiful book that is part of the Vision Series of books about the Saints. Lia fell in love with an angel costume and I'm so glad I indulged her. She LOVES this costume and asks to put it on constantly! David had no intrest in being any other Saint than Saint George. He didn't want to wear brown robes with a bird on his shoulder like Saint Francis, nor did he want to carry a carpenter's saw like Saint Joseph... He was perfectly happy to be his beloved Saint George again this year and didn't even want to upgrade his cardboard shield we made. This makes me happy because we worked so hard on it and it still looks awesome! We kept all his costume parts so he was very excited to "slay" his dragon again and proudly carry the dragon remains around his waist. Boys. :-)
The kids are posing outside church on our way to Emily's Halloween party for choir. Our choir director generously invited all the choir kids and thier siblings to dress up and attend. Mine were bouncing off the walls they were so excited!

And this is the day the costumes arrived on our doorstep. Emily and Lia were very excited to try them on. Lia fell in love with her angel costume and didn't want to take it off. So sweet.