I’ve been so excited to do this post. Our Halloween costumes came out so awesome this year. I’m trying to be modest about it but they were very cool. So cool in fact that we won the prize for the best family costume at our ward Halloween party. We got a six pack of root beer!! Whoot!
We had a hard time focusing on Halloween costumes this year. We usually know what we want to be by summer and by the first of September I’m working on getting all the pieces to the costumes. On September 30 we decided we wouldn’t go to bed till the theme was decided. It took another week to decide who would be what. But once we started we couldn’t stop. It was so fun!
Ready for our costumes???
I thought of all the costumes, this one would be the hardest. But it came out the best!!! Jaime made the hat. The whole costume was pieced together with things here and there. So fun to create.
I made that hat from scratch. Are you so proud of me?? Jaime did a good job getting Afton’s hair to look like crackle’s hair. This one was the easiest costume of the 3.
I had to dye that shirt. Not exactly the color I was going for, but close!
There they are, Snap, Crackle and Pop!
Hardest costume to find. Easiest costume to make!!
Milo wanted to be Tony the Tiger. Easy right?? Orange sweats, long sleeved orange shirt. What’s hard about that??? Finding orange, that’s whats hard about that!! Impossible. I visited 9 different stores over a 2 week period of time (some of them twice) and couldn’t find a long sleeve shirt and sweat pants. 6 hours till party time Milo still had no costume. That’s when I thought of Fred Flinstone. I bought an orange pumpkin garbage bag decoration and cut it up to fit him and Jaime drew on the triangles. He already had a blue tie (thanks to Uncle Louis’ wedding) and he was stoked that he got to go barefoot all night! It took 45 minutes from start to finish to do his costume.
“Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!”
“They’re always after Me Lucky Charms”
Jaime even got her finger nails painted with four leaf clovers for her costume. She looked great. It was just a VERY hot costume. So it was hard to keep all the pieces on the whole time.
As usual, I was helping everyone else get all pretty, that mine was thrown together fast. So the only pictures we got of me were in the kitchen at church!
And the BEST costume of all???
Scott made his own hat and mustache. I made the shirt. His came out SO GOOD!!
These pictures were all taken before we went to the Ward Halloween Party. It was a super fun party. I was in charge of the kitchen and getting all the food. So easy. We did a potato bar. I just put everything out and then walked away and enjoyed the party. Afterward I only had about 30 minutes worth of cleaning in the kitchen. It was so easy. Not a lot of prep and not a lot of clean up.
The craziest part of the potato bar was washing and wrapping all the potatoes. But when you have 6 willing helpers, it’s not that bad.
We had 75 potatoes that we cut in half first, then wrapped and then baked. Crazy I tell you!!
Jaime invited her friend Amy to the party. Jaime and Amy have been dancing together for 6 years. They had a good time.
The other fun part about our costumes were the kids’ trick or treat boxes. They used cereal boxes and put handles on them or whatever and used those to collect candy. They had a good time doctoring their boxes to accommodate their different personalities.
That is quite clever. I don’t think I would have ever thought of doing that. That is great.
Love it! Good work.