Halloween Costumes

I usually like the practical, make your own type costumes for my kids... but I had a 40% off coupon at Old Navy that was burning a hole in my pocket, and I am nearing the end of my degree which means I'm stressed for time (and out of my mind) effry. day. This year, I could justify buying costumes and not making one dang thing.

Macey was an ice cream cone. She was the cutest ice cream cone I ever did see. The sauciest one, too.

Collin was a hamburger, or "krabby patty" (from Spongebob), as he called himself. "I'n a KRABBY PATTY, mama!" He was so excited, he wouldn't hold still for nothin'. But that's normal.

The pair.

Randy and I followed our usual Halloween protocol, I stay home and hand out candy while he takes the kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.  Don't mind the picture of the Idaho Falls temple in the background. I realize that's not the most appropriate picture ever. Hindsight.

Randy said next year he wants to get a new costume. Heartbreak. There's something just so appealing with a man in a gnarly mullet, cut off flannel shirt, sweats.... no? Yeah, me either.

Walking out to go trick-or-treat. 

I was worried about Collin not understanding and getting frustrated, but Randy said he was so cute. He would run right up to the houses and say "Trick an Treat!" and then "Happy Hoween!" as he was leaving. Awww.

After they were done.

I love this picture. Collin, relaxing, airing his feet out after a long night. Skittles in hand.

After we're all settled back and it's mostly the older kids still out, Randy usually likes to dress up in his gorilla costume and go terrorize the neighborhood. This year he took a different approach. 

That's a Bob Dole mask. 

Random pictures that don't have a place: 

I went and helped at Macey's class Halloween Party. It was fun and she was adorable! She had to take off her hat though because she was so shweaty. Here she is with her BFF, Bre.

For dinner we got a Papa Murphy's pizza and made spoooky root beer.

The end.

Halloween Decoraysh

We had lots of fun this year and *loved* our new addition, the witch in the front yard with her cats. We found the templates off of Martha Stewart of course, and made them out of plywood and stuck them in the ground with conduit.

We'll start off with my pride and joy. This took me probably 3 hours or more trying to figure out what looks best. The lighting is bright so you can see the detail of all the decoraysh, but this looks rad at night.

I downsized the spider web from last year with a smaller, pre-made version from Tai Pan for $3.

My bookshelf in the front room and witch pillow in the rocker.

This was a pain in the butt, I got up on a huge ladder and was shaking I was so scared while I hung up those lanterns. It was worth it, but of course they decide to turn their faces away while I have the camera out.

My pumpkin tree.

Moving on into the kitchen. 

This was a new addition this year, I found some awesome old bottles from the D.I. and made an apothecary.  They are sitting on a ledge by my kitchen sink, so little hands cannot get to them.

And finally, outside:

 What you can't really tell from the pictures is that all the flood lights are orange, and all the lamp lights are green. The lights look white in a lot of pictures, but in fact, they are amber.

 We were mad to find that our fogger gave up the ghost this year, but we found an ok replacement: this witches cauldron, it changes colors and steams over the top. Spooooky.

 I'm laughing because Randy took these pictures for me... in his white trash costume. Just imagine the poses he was in to get these shots. HAHA. Also, in the next couple shots you see a red streak on our bay window, we had a flying bat with red eyes. It was awesome, but we couldn't get any good pictures... too dark and he was too fast!

Oh. My. Gosh. I just enlarged this picture. What is flying over the top of my roof? Is that a bat? Or a ghost!!

 One of my favorite decorations to put up every year. :0) To make it more real, Macey went and picked up a piece of old dog poop, and put it in front of the sign on Halloween day. Ha!

I'm always a little disappointed when I load all of the pictures... it's SO much better in person!

Halloween in my neighborhood is SO. MUCH. FUN. Lots of us get into it. My neighbor across the street actually GOT UP ON HIS ROOF, had a big fake bat on a wire and would scare the crap out of the older kids. It was so funny to watch.

Yay for Halloween decoraysh! Macey told me Halloween is her favorite season. :) Pretty true at our house since I start decorating in early September. It just takes that long!