480 Halloween is Coming

Katie and Connor's costumes came yesterday (and Katie's bestie got her's today)! Let the excitement begin!

It also had me surfing around for fun Halloween craft ideas :) I have some ideas... And a huge stash that needs to be used.

Let the Haunting Season BEGIN!

(I finally installed the Blogger app on my phone... I just need to figure out how to place the pictures where I want them.)

311 Halloween

The boys at Gold Strike decided to theme it up this Halloween, so they dressed as characters from Blazing Saddles. Chip was Gov. Le Petomane, and we did a bit of scrambling to get his outfit together. Chip actually found the jacket himself for $4 at the thrift store (I am pretty proud of that), but I had to come up with a way to get the GOV on the back, and the jacket had to be altered. And, of course, the boxers had to be sewn closed ;) Jeff is Gabby Johnson. I love that he made his vest out of the lining of a women's jacket he found at the thrift store. Now THAT is ingenuity!! Like Chip's sock garters?Those are some stylin' sheet clips. And the black socks just really set off those Irish white legs.
And my Punk Fairy! This outfit is so very Katie! She has a style that is all her own, and an impish personality to pull it off. And my Viking Warrior. Ready to pillage and plunder! (I know, there are more pics of Connor, but only because he was home while Katie went to Trunk-or-Treat with her girlfriends)And the actual Trick-orTreating... Kaitlyn's Dad hooks up the trailer and gets some bales of hay and we are off! Mommy gets a workout climbing in and out, and the kids get to ride between houses. Perfect arrangement ... well, except for that "dark" thing that makes it so hard to get a decent picture. Katie was excited about taking her brother to the doors, until we were there and she realized that he was slowing her down. She did take him to his first door (you can barely see his little fur spats) Miss Stacy has a bunch of dogs, and Connor would have been perfectly happy to have gone inside to play.My fairy needed to fly!! Connor caught on pretty quickly though, and he became a master of dragging his heavy bag of candy to the door. He refused to let me help him most of the time, and although he didn't say "trick or Treat!" he could certainly open up his little bag and grin! He even charmed Elvis out of a stuffed little elephant.

It was another successful Halloween night. We are overflowing with candy, and hopefully we can dole it out slowly. Connor has already had to have it taken away.

And, the girls have picked out their costumes for next year ... VAMPIRES! I think I can get into dressing up for that one :) ... now where did I put my Elvira costume???

111 Smell My Feet

Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't
I don't care
I'll pull down your underwear!

Can you imagine if kids yelled this out at someones house today! When we were kids, it was still cute. Now people are freaked out (and rightly so) about child molesters and kids growing up too fast. I would be absolutely shocked to hear my daughter say she wanted to pull down someone's pants, even as a joke. Maybe it is just because I so dread her growing up. I want her to maintain her sweet innocence as long as possible.

I finally got the house decorated a little bit on Halloween. I did not have time for a big production, but I think it turned out pretty spooky anyways.

I got to take some pics of the nutballs before it was too dark. Katie had worn her costume to school, she is Hannah Montana if you can't tell :)! Grammy made her dress! Connor is a pirate. Can't you tell by the striped pants? It came with a shirt, vest, and sash but he ended up just staying in his t-shirt.



And did I mention that Connor's head is SO BIG that I had to cut into his hat and put elastic?!?




I just wanted to be in the spirit of Halloween, but I may have just ended up confusing the trick-or-treaters. I turned off the porch light, but I doubt that anyone payed attention to that. In fact there were a LOT of lights out. I think most of the houses have kids of the trick-or-treat age so we are all out with them. The main thing is running around with your friends, and Katie definitely got to do that! We had talked about her friend Seyerra going with us, but when I tried to call and find out when she wanted to come over I could not get anyone on the phone. So, I got Katie all ready, and Connor all ready, loaded up the hoopdee (stroller), and we were off. We headed up towards Mia's house and almost immediately met up with them. Katie actually went to the first house with her buddy Jacob and his little sis. The rest of the night was spent with Mia and various others.

We walked down the street, then we ended up on a trailer behind a 4-wheeler. Lots of houses and lots of fun and a ton of candy! We only ended up with a few casualties. We had one scared to tears at one house, and another that fell once and got run over another time (also at the scary house). For once my child was not the one tumbling down. As hard as that is to believe! Connor was good through it all, of course. He is just the sweetest little thing. At the very worst he is going to want to be held. He is used to being toted around behind Katie. Poor guy! We were out until almost 9pm. Connor had fallen asleep, and most of the lights were out. I thought we were the last trick-or-treaters until I noticed some people pulling up at our house and heading to the door. We had just dropped Mia off at her house, so I hightailed it home to at least give out some candy. We were home for the very first and the very last trick-or-treaters. Katie got a huge haul of candy, and she had a blast. Another complete success!

And did I mention that Chip dressed up for work. His buddy Jeff stopped by and the rode in together. You ever hear the one about the Monk and the Redneck ....