Halloween

Brigham loves the idea of getting lots of candy but getting him to wear a costume for more than 30 seconds is nearly impossible so I knew I had to find a costume that was mostly just normal clothes.  At about the time I was starting to brainstorm costume ideas, he began to really like all things pirate.  How perfect! I looked online for some inexpensive pirate costumes but nothing had the look I wanted for the price I wanted.  My favorite costume was $50!  There was no way I was paying that.  I wanted to be under $10 including shipping.  A week or two before Halloween I went to my favorite thrift store, Value Village.  They almost always have whatever I am looking for and it is only 2 minutes from our house.  I went in with a vision of what I wanted in head.  I had no luck finding what I was looking for (except for the black sweatpants that I cut to make pirate pants/shorts.  As I was walking to pay for the pants, I saw a woman's stripped jacket hanging at the end of an aisle.  I immediately had a new vision for this prate costume and went back to the children's section to look for a red shirt.  I didn't find a red shirt but I found some girls stripped leggings that I missed my first time over there.  Next I found a red scarf and a red belt.  I got his whole costume for $8.  We got home and I cut the sweatpants to make them pirate-y.  Next I cut the zipper and hood off the stripped jacket and then I cut the sleeves off.  I bought a red thermal shirt at Wal-Mart and we had our costume.  He loved it and so did I. Since I got a red shirt for him to wear, I ended up leaving the belt off.  He got a lot of use out of this costume.  He had a preschool fall festival, a preschool class party, the ward trunk or treat, and then Halloween.  We stuck with tradition and went trick or treating with our friends, the Woods.  Kaitlyn was a super cute princess, Brayden was an adorable chicken, and Aubree was a bumble bee.  It was another cold Halloween but lots of fun!