Flashback: Trunk or Treat

This year’s (ok, it is last year now) family trunk theme (back in October. . . ) was “Alice in Wonderland”.  Lot’s of fun!

Here’s Diana’s “Down the Rabbit Hole”

My room with the little door ( and table with the “drink me” bottle)

They opened the door to see the rabbit running away and the basket of candy.

Debbie’s Tree with all of the signs that say “this way” and “that way”, etc.  (I didn’t get a very good picture!!)

Shannon’s car as the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

The Laxton crew (Mark & Shannon as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Makenna as the Cheshire Cat, Sawyer as the Mad Hatter, Malaine as Alice, Sage as the Queen of Hearts, and Mavery as one of the flamingos.)

My kids . . . (Jaylyn as the White Rabbit, Adley as the Rose, Leighton as one of the Spade cards)

All the kids together

Flashback to Trunk or Treat

As always, our family connected our trunk and costume decorations together for our church Trunk or Treat.  We went with a Circus theme this year.  It was a lot of fun.

I wonder. . . . .

Do you like clowns?

Really?

How about Tiger tamers?

Or Circus Pony Riders? (and her friend “Jessie” from Toy Story) Here is Diana’s Circus tent trunk 

And Shannon’s Concessions Trunk - Watch out for the Cheetah!

Oh, an adorable Circus Elephant! 

Everyone’s circus favorite – cotton candy and popcorn.  Hee hee!  I’m looking kind of manly in Mark’s yellow shirt.  Ha!

Here are the girls in front of our acrobatic trunk

This is TJ’s kind of costume right there. :-)

And the kids (except Sawyer the mime) 

Somehow I missed Debbie’s Ticket Trunk and Sawyer as a mime, so you will have to click over to Shannon’s blog to see those and Mark the strong man!  http://www.herewegrowagain.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-halloween-2011.html

Trunk or Treat

Well, going back to the end of October. . . our church had our annual Trunk-or-Treat. And as previous years past, our family picked a theme for our trunks and coordinated costumes. This year was the “Wizard of Oz”. It turned out to be a pretty fun theme. I think thanks goes to Makenna for the idea. :-)

Mark and Shannon did the tornado and the house landing on the witch. Pretty funny! Their tornado even turned. Nice!

Then Terry and Debbie had Munchkin Land. Very cute!

Diana and Larry had the Emerald City. I thought it looked pretty neat!

And then we did the hot air balloon when the Wizard tried to take Dorothy home. Let’s just say that it didn’t quite turn out as I envisioned it. The parachute I wanted to use didn’t work, then I quickly constructed a large tissue paper hot air balloon that ripped apart shortly before leaving for the church. I just glued it to a board and we stuck it up there and did our best to inflate it with the fan. :-)

Here is Jaylyn as the Tin “Girl” and Malaine as the Scarecrow. Very cute!

I made Sawyer (The Wizard!) get in the balloon basket for a picture!

Then I made a girl from our church dressed up as Dorothy get in for a photo too! :-) Somehow I didn’t get Makenna as Dorothy!

Leighton was the Lion – wearing her badge of courage. We had to stick her in a friend’s trunk for a while because she also fit her jungle theme. :-)

I stole these next few pics. . .

Ok, so here I am as a rainbow. Pretty, huh? I was going to post the one with me and Shannon (who was Auntie Em), but her eyes were bugging out and I didn’t want to get in trouble again. :-)

The gang!

The Lullaby League Munchkins

Trunk or Treat (Back track!)

I almost forgot to post our Trunk-or-Treat pics from church. Thankfully Diana took some pics for me because that was when our camera was on the fritz. Our tradition has been for our family to coordinate our trunks and cousins coordinate outfits. 1st year - Peter Pan, 2nd year - 50's, and this year was Disney Princesses. I did Cinderella's carriage and we also had Ariel's underwater castle and another castle. Our only boy cousin was our knight! We had all of the princesses except Jasmine. And then, me and Shannon were totally out of our minds (Ha!) and dressed as the wicked step-sisters. And oh, were we lovely! I think TJ was embarrassed. And just for your sheer entertainment, I will post the picture. This one may haunt me. Hee hee!

Cinderella's castle - I even cut the door so you could look inside the lighted carriage and get your candy.

Friend, Megan, holding our closest version to Mulan. (Leighton, of course!)

It is Ariel and Cinderella!

Snow White! (It took me a week to realize I forgot her cape.)

Here we are! I could not pay any attention to anything Shannon said to me because I was so distracted by that scary unibrow! Ha!