Another trip back through time...

Destroy has known for a few months now that he has wanted to be Darth Vader for Halloween. Gone are the days where I can dress my kids up in anything for Halloween and have their approval. So I managed to find a sweet Darth Vader costume at Marshalls complete with light saber, light up suit and cape for 20 bucks (now I know that it's actually a pretty cheap pain in the tail because I've had to fix it a few times). I also found a Yoda costume perfect for Search but he refused to wear it except for once when I got the picture. We even let him watch the part in Star Wars where Yoda fights Count Dukoo with his light saber but it didn't impress him enough I guess. So I went out one night an exercised my use-of-credit-line ability and purchased seven costumes to take home and he could pick one so I could return them all the next day. Of course the one he really wanted, the tiger, was too small. So then he said he wanted to be the M&M. So he tried it on. Then he wanted to be the lion. So he tried that one. He, and we finally put a stop to it, finally decided on the puppy. So we have a "nice Darth Vader" as Destroy says he is, and a puppy. Aaron and I are the odd couple, a priest and a witch. Aaron said that his preferred method of killing me would be drowning. Lovely.
I think it was mostly Aaron who vetoed the M&M idea. He looked a like a fruity M&M. I kind of agreed but didn't care much at this point. I just thought his little two year old legs sticking out the bottom were about the cutest thing I've ever seen. But I honestly think this is the best picture I've ever gotten of them. Together. At one time. Happy. Smiling. Eyes open. Ahhh...
Here's our clan last year at the ward's trunk or treat. Didn't we get best group costume prize, gardener? We had Sully, Mike Wazowski, Boo, a random monster and the adults were the CDA. We had fun making those costumes. Or I guess I should say, the gardener had fun making those costumes since she did most of the work. We did find the boys' costumes at a second hand store for cheap.
Mike and Sully.
Year before that Destroy was a frog. We went to the "Brick or Treat" at Legoland that year.

Search and Ladybug were chili peppers. They were thrilled and tired.
When Destroy was one and Search was in utero, Aaron and I went as cowboys and Destroy was our pony.
And the year before that, we were welcoming a new baby. Julia, you remembered correctly. This picture was taken at a med school party the day before Destroy was born. I was a football player and painted my stomach like a football, and Aaron was my "coach". People kept wondering if my belly was for real. I was wishing at that point that I didn't have a belly anymore and that the thing would just come out!