What does a princess, a smartie-pants doctor, and a magic 8 ball have in common?

They can all be Halloween costumes! Here we are at our ward party the other night:

My beautiful princesses, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Doctor smartie-pants

And my belly as a magic 8 ball!

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I actually got voted most creative costume in our ward! I never win anything, especially dress-up contests; I usually try to blend in and not do anything too noticeable but with a belly like this, it's hard not to be noticed. It's also not very often that I'm going to be 9 months pregnant on Halloween so I had to play it up!

Ready to go trick-or-treating

Excited about visiting our neighbors and getting candy!

This was my view most of the night, I couldn't keep up with the girls! They just kept wanting to go to more and more houses and by the end they couldn't carry their pumpkins, they were so heavy!

Checking out their loot

Happy, sticky faces

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The best part of the night!

This brings back many memories of trick-or-treating for hours with my siblings and then trading candy once we got home, making piles of all the different kinds of goodies we got. We would eat all we wanted that night and then hide it in our rooms and slowly savor it over the next month, a little at a time until all that sweet goodness was gone. No wonder I had so many cavities growing up! And that's exactly why I hid 90% of it after the girls went to sleep. Now I just have to discipline myself not to eat that 90%!