halloween

I'm aware it's March. I'm aware you probably don't care about my Halloween anymore. But, I don't care. I worked super hard on my costume and I want to show you! Plus I have some cute pictures of the nephews I know you want to see.

I like Halloween...but I'm not a huge fan. I always feel ridiculous in costumes. Now as a kid of course this was the best holiday ever. Mostly because of all the free candy I got. This summer I was thinking that Halloween would be a blast with Miles, so I booked a ticket. Not long after that he said he wanted me to be Mary Poppins and he was going to be Bert with the band on his back. How can you say no to that? So I got to work. with some awesome Goodwill finds and some DIY, my costume came out pretty awesome! Rebecca also did an awesome job with Miles' costume!

For the hat I got black spray paint, daises and cherries from Hobby Lobby, and found the hat on Amazon. After spray painting, I super glued the flowers and cherries in the exact same way Mary Poppins hat was.

For the sash and bow tie for the shirt I bought different ribbons, hair clips (for the bow tie), and iron on letters. After a ton of gluing and ironing the sash was almost finished! It finished it off by folding the extra ribbons in half to make the circular bow at the end and topped it off with a gigantic white button from my grandma's button stash.

Finished product with Bert and the penguin waiter!

It was so cute. When I came upstairs dressed as Mary, Miles was so excited and got to shy! He couldn't even talk, he just looked at me with the biggest smile on his face.

It was snowing/raining/hailing/sleeting depending on the hour that day so we only lasted about 10 minutes before Miles was cold and wanted to go home. I was grateful because even with a jacket on, I was freezing! My hat kept getting blown off because of the insanely strong winds, so my hands out to be out of my jacket the whole time. They hurt they were so cold!

The rest of the trip was a lot of fun! It was spent playing with Miles and Atticus and hanging out with Michael and Rebecca. You wouldn't know it though because I only took pictures with the kids.

Obviously my photo shoots had to include Atticus. He will come to love them just as much as I'm sure Miles does!

what are you?

I wore this insanely awesome wig (borrowed from a friend who said I had to keep it because "she would never look as good in it as I do.") to school for Halloween. 

I wasn't trying to be anyone, I just wanted to hear this awesome wig. There was some debate among the kids what I was supposed to be.

• a princess
• an old lady
• a weirdo (yes, kids asked me if I was these things)
• Dolly Parton (I wish I had thought of that! I might have to be oldschool Dolly next Halloween)
• a peacock

Happy (belated) Halloween everyone!

belts

We don't do costumes at our school unless they're in kindergarten, so we told our kids they could wear one Halloween thing. 

Kid: Oh wow Ms. Ewing. What's that? (points to my waist)

Me: Um, a belt?

Kid: What's it for?

Me: For my dress?

Kid: But you're wearing witch tights. Why are you wearing a Halloween belt too?

Me: I'm confused. This is just a regular belt.

Kid:...Oh....wow....

halloween

Wes and I are fans of game shows. Two years ago we were Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly from Match Game.

 

This year we decided that we needed to bring back contestants from an awesome gameshow known as Supermarket Sweep.

The house party we were going to go to ended up being a bust, so we decided to go to Ego's, our favorite karaoke bar. It was a great decision! The crazies were out in full force. Surprisingly no one but Wes sang any Halloween songs. Knowing our history of Halloween together (the Match Game picture ended with Wes getting hit by a car...for real. We then had a city bus drive just the two of us home since he wouldn't be able to drive his car because his wheel chair was so busted up.) this was by far the most successful! Here are a few pictures from last night.