Friday, November 6, 2009

Ode to Halloween

Four score and seven years ago......
Ethan was Abraham Lincoln
Eva was the original Peace Sign Pajama Girl

And Beckham was Thomas the Train. Again.
We traveled up to Rexburg while Kerry was away, the kids hung out with cousins every hour of every day.

Cousin Colton transformed into Batman with his trusty side-kick Abe,


and Eva and Cousin Katie were Peace Sign Pajama Girl Babes.

"Bad to the Bone" was Jack our little Dog

Beckham was the candy Nazi, saying, "Only ONE piece! Don't hog!" (ok, he didn't say don't hog, but I had to make it rhyme.)

Grandma Westenskow fed us ham and rolls to get ready to go..

Mom wanted to get in a picture with them all, but she was too slow!
"Canvasing EVERY neighborhood" was the strategy they had in mind,
I took them for hours, so chocolate in their bags their mother could find!
WAhh Ahh Ahh Ahhh.
The End.

P.S.
Only 2 days before trick-or treating was here....
Eva told Ethan that going as a soccer player was lame and quite weird, So out of his mouth it flew like a flash, "Then I'll be Abraham Lincoln. Let's go find a beard!
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that

4 comments:

The Stones said...

You creative gal, you! Love it, very creative post and costumes!

Brooke and Jonny said...

hahahahaha I LOVE it, every time I see Ethan I just crack up! What a ham. I didn't even notice that it was rhyming until you wrote that part about hog and then it clicked, yes I ride the short bus. Very cute post indeed!

Candy McCall said...

Love the costumes. Love the poem.

Candy McCall said...

oh, and yes Tyson was Einstein. I should've aknowledged that.