Home made costumes

 2005-Charlie was a cow.

 2006-Charlie was a Purple People Eater.  She LOVED that song.  Everyone thought she was a tella tubbie.

 2007-Charlie was Strawberry Shortcake.  Her very first store bought costume.

 2008-Charlie wanted to be Randy from A Christmas Story.  We thought it was a super creative costume.  She went around telling everyone, "I can't put my arms down."  Very few people understood.

 2008- Brantley was a knight.  This was the year that someone donated a dragon costume to my class. Charlie found it and had to be a dragon to go with B's knight costume.  We usually do several nights of Halloween stuff so it was easy to accommodate her.  

 2009-B was a Purple People Eater.  I loved that costume so much and it fit him this year.  Charlie was a princess.  Her grandmother made the dress.

2010- Brantley wanted to be a monkey.  Charlie wanted to be Lucy Little from The Littles.

2011- Charlie wanted to be Velma (a gift from Santa aka Grandma) last year for Christmas.  Brantley said for two months leading up to Halloween that he wanted to be a lion.  Then one day in the story we walked through the Halloween section the first part of October.  He pointed to the shelf and said "Mommy I gonna be that for Halloween."  He was pointing to a can of silly string.  I asked him.  "You want to be what?"  "I gonna be a can a silly string. I gonna shoot all the people with my silly string."  I knew that Dusty would LOVE that.  I kept asking for about a week and he never returned to lion.  So, he was a can of silly string.  I love that my kids costumes are very "non-traditional."

Halloween

Here are my kids costumes this year.
I can not believe that both kids are looking at the camera AND smiling. I won't even wait get an actual "Halloween" day picture.
C is Lucy Little (If you don't know who/what this is, check out www.hulu.com search tv shows for "The Littles" and watch an episode. I loved the Littles as a kid. I think it is pretty cool that my kids do too.) B is a monkey. It is VERY fitting.

Halloween 2

I don't often blog about Dusty. I should. He is a great husband. This is one thing that we disagree on. I hate Halloween. I just really don't like anything about it except the ability to "dress up." He loves it. It is his favorite holiday. He loves scary stuff. Can't you tell? this is our front yard. He works so hard on it. He is very proud of it. Charlie loves it as well. I hate it! But there is very few stuff that Dusty truly enjoys. So this is one of those things that I just grin and go on wishing that it were different. Dusty and the kids have a great time setting up his "super scary" grave yard.

Halloween

Do you see these ducks? B did not want to give the duck back to get the candy. He loves Ducks.
This is part of his tantrum. We were across the gym from the duck pond and this is still what he did. I had to just take him out of the gym to distract him enough to forget the ducks.
Here is my second purple people eater. He hated the hat more than Charlie did. I never could get him to keep it on. We went to the carnival at church.


Here we are going trick-or-treating w/ Brandy Cox the 5th grade teacher at SJN. Her kids are about the same age as mine. She was wonderful to invite us to Norman. We went to her house where we had pizza. Lundyn and Creed were great fun for us to play with. Both girls were princesses. Creed was a pirate.