Creativity at its best.....

I am a little late with this picture but...better late then never! My mom emailed me this scanned copy of an old family photo from Halloween. Pretty dang cute...right!? My mom is the cat, Royce is a hobo, Brian was some type of a hunchback, and Michael was sporting his funky clown mask. Seeing this picture reminded me of how much fun I used to have with my family on Halloween as I was growing up in Tempe. I don't think that we EVER went to the store to buy a packaged/themed costume. My mom had a Halloween box that was full of old masks, face paints, capes, and vampire teeth, etc. We would just find things and create new costumes. I loved it! I kind of feel bad for kids these days because the "norm" is to head to the store to buy a costume of the "latest and greatest" and I think that the creativity and imagination of costumes is being done away with. Oh well.....to each their own...right? What were some of your costumes when you were growing up?