A Mario Brothers Halloween

We had a great time this weekend wearing our family costume to our church's halloween party. This is the first year, we have dressed up as a family.  In fact, it is the first year I have dressed up in the last 15 years. It all started with Jake wanting to be Mario.  He knew what he wanted to be and there was no changing his mind.  Then the girls jumped on and wanted to be Princess Peach (Hannah) and Princess Daisy (Ella).   Then Jake said Dad would be Luigi.  Well, I decided to join in and be Toad.  Graham was supposed to be Yoshi, but I found a tutorial for a Goomba and decided that was the perfect costume for little Graham.   So, that is how the family costume came to be.... it all started with Jake! I made all the costumes except Hannah's (I got hers off of ebay for $10, can't beat that!). And I didn't make the boys hats (got those for $5 on ebay).   I wasn't sure how I was going to do some of costumes, but they all worked out better than I could have imagined, especially since I made a lot of it up as I went along. My neighbor has a photography studio in her garage, so I asked if we could have her take some photos of us.   I wanted a plain white background for the photos because i knew it would show off the colors and fun-ness of the costumes so well.   I just love how the pictures turned out and might have to do this every year! So, there you go. This year's halloween costumes.  We went all out this year as a family and the kids loved every bit of it.   And so did Chris and I.