My kids are 14 and 11.  Any year now they could decide not to dress up and *gasp* not want to go trick or treating. Ever since my youngest was born, we’ve been trick or treating with cousins.  My nephew and son were born 3 days apart (pretty cool since their dads’ are twins ;)) and since my nephew was the first child, it just seemed natural that we’d trick or treat together.  My BIL & SIL have added two more kids since then and it’s been a tradition of sorts to always trick or treat together.

But, we broke tradition this year. 🙁

As the kids get older and have more extracurricular activities, it was bound to happen, but it doesn’t make it any easier.

My husband said to me yesterday, “I don’t like not trick or treating with the other Higgy’s”.  I know, hubs, I know.  I don’t like it either.

It was weird to only walk with 2 kids instead of 5…to walk door to door with a pre-teen and a teenager…to miss the giggles and “wait for me’s” of my adorable nieces as they run to try to keep up with the older kids (something that’s gotten a lot easier through the years!).

*sigh*  There’s always next year!

And, while the kids were bummed to not be with their cousins, it didn’t keep them from getting a buttload of candy.

My little teenage Princess Leia and Boba Fett.  *thank you daddy for the Star Wars phase*

Do you know how hard it is to find Star Wars costumes?  Boba Fett was only available online and all the Princess Leia costumes were not only also available only online, but the options sucked.  We ended up just putting one together ourselves.  We scoured the mall one afternoon searching for a white dress that would work (thank you Forever 21!), bought gogo boots at the Halloween store, leia buns on Etsy and made the belt from scratch.

Hayden was so stoked when people knew who he was.  Everyone recognized Princess Leia, but only a handful of people knew he was Boba Fett.

How was everyone’s night?!  What did you or your kids dress up as?  My kids refuse to let me help with costume ideas so I’m living vicariously through you all with your awesomely creative costumes!