10/18/15: Hey guys! Here are our winners: #1: Joytiffany, #2: Melissa Pimentel, #3: Alexis Franco, #4: J Ortenzi, #5: Rachel.Baker, #6: Heather Sabatino, and #11: Lisette Weldon. Please check the email address linked to your blog comment so I can get your costumes shipped ASAP! And congratulations! 🙂
After a busy summer and a hectic back to school season, the Powell Pack is cleaning house and making room for Santa?s sleigh! Just in time for trick-or-treating, we’re giving away some of our favorite costumes from Halloweens past. Oh…the memories as I look at each of these. I miss my littles being so small, but I know these costumes will go to good use!
Okay, so each costume is shown in the pictures below with a coordinating number. To win:
1. Simply comment with the costume number you would like to win.
2. Post your favorite tip to ward off the temptation for Halloween sweets in the comments below!
Winners will be chosen randomly and? announced on Sunday, October 18th, right back here in this post. Good luck!!
*Apologies in advance, I don’t have exact sizing for these, so hopefully sharing how old my kiddos were when they wore them will give you an idea of sizes!
- Ruby’s DIY Spider Costume (as seen here!):- 6-12 months
- Tootsie Roll Costume: Marley wore this for her first Halloween when she was just a couple weeks old!
- Yellow Angry Bird Costume: Cash wore this last Halloween at age 3
- Pirate Costume: Matix wore this 2 years ago at 8 years old. For sizing, remember he is tall!
- Pirate Costume: Marley wore this at age 7.
- Option for both Pirate Costumes
- Incredibles Costume: Matix was 6 at the time.
- Incredibles Costume: This one was mine, I typically wear an adult small.
- Incredibles Costume: Marley apparently decided to make hers into Daisey Duke’s after Halloween…take it or leave it! Ha! She was 5 when she wore the costume.
- Incredibles Costume: This costume was Chris’, he is usually a medium/large.
- Option for complete family set of 4 costumes (as seen here!) – Sorry, Cash’s was homemade and I have no idea where it ended up!
Alright guys, start commenting now!
Xoxo,
Heidi
76 Responses
#8 i thought I dress up this year and that costume would be awesome , 🙂 we well be out at carnivals this year so not giving out candy this year . We usually take a few candy out and take to our dentist usually have us take it to them or my husband takes them to his work .. Soldiers need candy .
#7, #8, #10 would be the perfect fit for our family costume this year!
To ward off temptation of Halloween candy I will have great snacks ready to go to quickly grab instead of the Halloween candy! Cut up fruit and viggies, homemade nut/fruit bars, hummus and carrots, etc.
11 would be perfect! We do the teal pumpkin project. My son is gluten soy and casein free so we do not let much of the sweets in the house. And when we do after two days we donate it to the military
#6 sounds like fun! 😀 Thanks for sharing!
My family would love to win #11!! This is what we’re planning on dressing up for Halloween. I have had trouble finding the costumes though! Please choose us! By the way I love your family!
#11 would be perfect for our family. We always make sure to eat our normal meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner + healthy snacks) before candy is allowed. Dinner is such an important part of warding off extra sweets Halloween night. We’ve made it a tradition, so it’s something the kids look forward to. Whether we make spaghetti (and call it spook-ghetti) or a soup of some kind (and call it witches brew) we make sure dinner (and regular meals) are taken care of before trick or treating, or even eating candy received from a school activity, etc. Happy Halloween!!
#6. 🙂 First, we only buy a small amount of candy for Halloween, and we replenish our candy bowl with what our kids bring home (especially whatever they don’t like). Then, we put what’s left into a bowl and put it out of sight and out of reach in the back of the top shelf of the pantry. Then we allow one piece some days after a good dinner. Once the kids start to forget about it (or when another candy holiday comes along), I usually trash what’s left.
#2 I let my kids have a few pieces the first night and then they get one piece a day after that. Usually withing a week or so the novelty has worn off and they forget about it. I just throw it out after that.
Angry birds
We do the seitch fairy
Trade all your candy and get agame or something else
#2 please! For the most part we try to keep candy out of our house but when Halloween does roll around we usually allow our children to select 10 pieces they’d like and they can eat them that night or over time until they are gone. When I do buy candy I try to buy dark chocolate as its higher in antioxidants and I feel you are satisfied with less of it then milk chocolate. Everything in moderation! 🙂