The Christopher Crew: A 31-year-old Costume (Happy Halloween!)

I hope everyone had a safe and happy time celebrating Halloween tonight! Halloween is not, and has never really been, a favorite holiday of mine. I always felt awkward walking up to somebody's house, asking for candy, and standing there waiting for them to fill my bucket. Walking up and down each driveway was like a walk-of-shame. I guess that means I can enjoy it a little more now that the pressure is off me and now on Tillman.

Well, trying to be cost savy and well-prepared, I bought/got together a Halloween costume for Tillman months in advance. In late July Tillman had an outfit picked out and purchased. However, that is not the outfit she ended up wearing this Halloween. (Luckily for me, it should still fit her next year...check that one off the list??) The original plan was for Tillman to be a construction worker with a hot pink hard hat. Yeh, she had no say in her costume choice.

Well, about two months ago we ended up getting our hands on one of Josh's old Halloween costumes. It was actually the one he wore as a child when he was 2 years old. And to make the story even sweeter, his mom made it from scratch! Well, there was no way we could pass up the opportunity to use this costume. So, instead of a construction worker, Tillman celebrated this Halloween as a leopard/cheetah. (Tillman referred to it as a tiger, so I will name it a tiger for the rest of the post...) She was pretty in to sporting the costume around and she wore it the entire night without complaining.

To start off our evening, we went to dinner with some friends. Then we caravanned (?) over to church to trunk-or-treat. This was our first trunk-or-treat ever, and I must say I liked it, minus the wind. Tillman had been practicing saying, "Trick-or-treat" and "Happy Halloween" the past two or three days, but tonight she was speechless. I think she was a bit overwhelmed. Oh, and I got so excited for her when we came across a Dora-themed trunk. It was sooo cute!

And, here is our 31-year-old Halloween Costume. Do you think Baby #2 will be able to wear it in a few years to keep the tradition going? Oh, and to claim something from my childhood...the jack-o-lantern bucket Tillman is carrying to fill with candy is mine from when I was a wee babe. What a sentimental Halloween now that I think about it. :)