Halloween 2011

This was an exciting Halloween for me.  Each of the girls came up with their own costumes this year....and they made them out of items they already had.  How cool is that??

Heather - cowgirl

Someone has been watching too many old  westerns.  She refused to look up for the photo.  She borrowed the hat from her dad but had all the other items in her closet already.

Emily - mafia member

Emily wore one of her dad's old suits.  She had the jacket on earlier. She had asked a friend if she could borrow her violin case, but then we forgot to go get it until we were leaving for the Halloween party.  She still looked good, though.

Megan - Taylor Swift

We crimped Megan's hair one day and were surprised at how much it made her look like country singer Taylor Swift.  We painted a cardboard guitar and added some sparkle and we had a superstar!

We attended a Halloween party with some friends.  Naturally, I forgot my camera so we had to take pictures when we got home, but the girls had fun.

Halloween Food Fun

My brother Devon is the kitchen manager at a sports bar.  For Halloween, they created this guy.

I cannot believe I let him loose in my kitchen when he was here in July! 

Witches and Wizards

Have you ever noticed that when several people do the same thing, they each do it in their own special way?  Well, Halloween this year was no different.  Heather and Megan each wanted to be witches.  We found Spiderella capes, sheer capes with a spiderweb design.  I bought black fabric and made witch dresses for the girls.  However, they each had very definite ideas on what they wanted their dress to look like.

I asked Megan to try on the dress before I sewed on the sleeves.  The shoulders were a bit big on her, creating a sort of cap sleeve look.  She decided she liked it and didn't want me to sew on the actual sleeves I had cut out.  She also insisted I cut off most of the length on the skirt so the dress hit her at about her knees.

She borrowed high-heeled black boots from Heather (they actually don't fit Heather anymore but she loves them and won't pass them on yet).  Megan refused to put on black lipstick, but did paint her nails green and black.  (Green is her favorite color.) 

She really wanted a picture with one eye covered.  Too funny.

So here is where the different personalities shine through.  Heather insisted that her dress have long, flowing sleeves.  In fact, she drew me a picture of the shape I needed to cut out to give the sleeves the look she wanted.  She insisted the sleeves needed to be long enough to cover her hands completely.  The dress had to be ankle-length and we stitched white and black trim along the neckline.  She also insisted she had to have black lipstick or she wouldn't have the right look.  She painted her nails blue and black.  (Blue is her  favorite color....and Megan actually copied Heather's nails.)

That black lipstick is hideous, but she liked it.

She did the hooded look later on, too.

And then there is Abby. Megan's friend was also dressed as a witch.  I realized today that I never got a full-body shot of Abby, because she ran off as soon as we started taking pictures.  But she had a huge, feather-covered witch hat and flourescent green and black striped tights.  Very cute, but also very different than each of my girls. 

Abby's brother, Jacob, dressed as a wizard so I guess the youngers kids had a theme, too. 

I am not sure if Megan and Jake have just had too much candy already or if they meant to look like this.  LOL   All in all, a very fun Halloween night.

Musketeers Meet Charlie's Angels

We went to the Halloween Trunk-or-Treat activity at the church Saturday night.  Emily was thrilled because she got to hang out with the other Musketeers.  They said it wasn't planned, but they all dressed up in pretty dresses.  My friend Sandi and I took the opportunity for a photo shoot. 

Kendra, Emily, Shelby, Clarcy

They put the guns away and posed for a regular picture

Clarcy dressed as Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Shelby

Kendra with an attitude  :-)

Miss America, Emi-Lou

Clarcy with one of Emily's best friends, Stuart

My Miss America - isn't she lovely?

Halloween Cat

I am preparing to post my Halloween pictures of the girls and I thought, "What is Halloween without a black cat?"  And so I am posting our Halloween cat pictures, even though he wouldn't sit still long enough for the girls to dress him in anything.

Awesome LOVES to be outside in the backyard. However, he doesn't like the heat much.  During the summer he would meow and meow to be let out, but as soon as we opened the door he would get hit with a blast of heat.  He usually decided he would rather stay inside. 

We have had such lovely cool weather recently and Awesome is in heaven.  I often prop the back door open while I work and he spends hours exploring the backyard.  He pounces on grasshoppers (and occasionally brings them inside to play!).  He sits in the shade and watches the birds fly overhead.  He naps in the tall grass.  He is such a happy cat!

However, as soon as he hears anyone coming down the alley, he bolts for the house.  The other day I was on the phone and he came skidding into the den with his tail about 3" around.  I didn't see anything in the alley, but something really spooked him.  Maybe it was a Halloween goblin!

A Greek Twist on Halloween

Clarcy and Emily

Emily and her friend Clarcy dressed as their favorite characters from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. Clarcy dressed as Rachel Elizabeth Dare. She even wrote on her jeans in Greek! Way to go, Clarcy.

Emily dressed as Thalia, daugher of Zeus. Thalia is a bit of a goth-type person. Even her hair is black. Emily has dark blond hair with lighter highlights. It took three entire cans of black hair spray to cover the highlights....and even then some showed through.

Clarcy found this funny shirt at a thrift store

Emily's shirt

In the books, Thalia wears a shirt that reads "DEATH TO BARBIE" and has a photo of Barbie with an arrow through her head. Naturally, shirts like that are not common in stores so we had to create our own. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a decent full-length photo of Barbie online?!?!?

Clarcy's brother, Jacob, dressed as Percy Jackson. Percy has a cool pen that turns into a sword. If he drops the pen, it ALWAYS returns to his pocket within a matter of minutes.

Jacob

Halloween Hoedown

Megan as a cowgirl

Megan does not like scary Halloween costumes. Even when she dresses as a traditional Halloween character (witch, etc.), she goes as "a cute _______" whatever it is. She certainly got the cute cowgirl costume down perfectly this year.

More pictures of Megan in her cowgirl costume

On Saturday we went to a second party with our friends. Megan's buddy Abby dressed as a Hawaiian girl in a grass skirt. Unfortunately, the grass skirt didn't survive the first hour of the party. However, Abby and Megan still had fun and collected lots of candy.

Megan and Abby

Fright Night

Heather, the biker chick

We attended two church Halloween parties this year, one in our ward on Friday and one with our friends the Calhouns on Saturday.

Heather decided she wanted to be a biker chick. We found a leather jacket at Deseret Industries for $9.00. Yahoo! It fit her perfectly. We found some fake piercings at the Halloween store. They really added something to the overall look. She had 10 rings, but I am not sure she used them all. She had multiple ear piercings and a lip piercing. No one at church recognized her at first. It was pretty funny.

More pictures of Heather's costume

Saturday night we took our neighbor's daughter with us to the party. Jaden and her little sister Janae adore Heather. Every time they see us get out of the car they yell across the street for Heather to come and play with them.

Jaden's mother volunteered to apply makeup for my girls. She even applied fake fingernails for them. They were very excited about the nails. I think Heather's eye makeup makes her look more like a zombie biker chick, but Heather loved it. Janae didn't. She ran away crying. Ha Ha

Heather and Jaden