Last night the kids and I went up to a local church who was hosting a "Light the Night" event. I didn't want to sit at home and listen to the teenagers yell and scream as they went up and down the street and my dog was freaking out at all the extra noise anyway.

That meant we had to come up with some last minute costumes. I searched the Family Fun website and the kids all came up with something easy, fast and FREE! My youngest was a clown - since he already had a dress up costume for that. Olivia was the hardest, I laid out 7 potential costumes on the bed and she didnt like any of them. Finally she decided to wear all black and be a "robber". To each her own. Allie (9) wanted to be a "spa girl" so she wore her bathrobe, a towel around her head, her sleep mask and we created a green face mask concotion, oh and she wore slippers too! My oldest is 11 and everything has to be "cool"... so we made him into a "breakfast table". We cut a hole for his head to go inside a long flat  box we had from a curriculum shipment, then I found an old table cloth, cut a hole in that too... hot glued them together so they didnt get all twisty, then we had fun gluing food and stuff to the table. We used paper plates, plastic cups, a fake food orange juice container, empty individual raisin boxes, a couple of apples, a rolled up news paper and we had pancakes for dinner - so I put one on each plate and glued on the empty syrup bottle! His costume was the hit of the night! People kept coming over and sitting things on him! LOL!

They had fun playing games and eating and I had fun being out of the house!!