November 2, 2013

Halloween 2013!

We had a lot of fun going to Brian's office to trick or treat. Walmart goes all out with every department having themes and decorating like crazy. And they have more candy than you can possibly imagine.

 Brekan was excited to see Dad, and managed to put up with his lion mane for about 1 minute....just long enough for me to snap a few pictures. 
 He even gave me a few cute smiles!

 And then he was done. 
I literally didn't even have enough time to jump in a picture with my boys before he pulled the hat off (which is mostly only sad to me because I know how many hours I spent making it)
 We saw lots of cool pumpkins...this one was cut in half and made into a pirate ship.
 And one of the departments decorated their offices in a Star Wars theme. It was pretty crazy! Brek didn't know what to think of Chewie:)

 At this point Brek kept telling me, "All done now." haha
 After all the excitement from Star Wars, Brek was done.
Total melt down:)
So we stripped him down, took him out of his lion costume and let him run around in a onesie, then he was a happy boy again:)

After getting a ton of candy, we came home and hurried and carved our pumpkins before the trick-or-treaters arrived.


Overall I think Brekan loved it all. 
Although he was super shy and wouldn't say hi to anybody at Brian's office. And he wouldn't roar like a lion even though he does it all the time at home:)
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November 1, 2013

The costumes...

I personally think the best part of halloween is making your own costumes. 

This year I knew I wanted to do an animal theme because Brekan LOVES animals. 

I actually started by knowing I wanted to make Brian an elephant costume out of this huge grey sweatshirt he has. And then I found this big sweatshirt for a couple dollars in a lion color, so I decided Brekan would be a lion.

I thought I was pretty genius to lay out one of breks shirts and pants over this sweatshirt to make a lion suit.

 You can't see the elephant very well in this picture, but it had a pretty awesome trunk and tusks and ears. And then mine was just a piggie....you can't really see mine well either...It's okay, it was all about Brek's lion costume anyway. 
And just a picture of my little vampire being pinned down since he wouldn't sit still for 1 second.

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