The year of many Costumes

 

I figured I better get on a halloween costume post. 

It only took me one large cup of Javita coffee (yes a shameless plug) and a whole lot of pics to go through and edit. The girls had multiple costumes this year, for different reasons. The first being they both wanted to be Jessie from Toy Story.

We went to the  annual halloween dance and T got to be the first to wear the coveted costume. 

S was happy to be a poodle skirt wearin' 50's girl (a costume my mom picked up somewhere).

For the Jessie costume I opted for the generic store bought costume borrowed from a friend and I followed the same tutorial as last year with a little improv on the bangs to make a Jessie wig.

Cute huh?

 

I managed to find an adult size Woodie costume at a garage sale for a buck so I wore the ever so flattering (NOT!) costume to match my lil girlie.

 

  

Hubby was unable to join us this year so that was kind of a bummer. 

Regardless the kids and I had a blast at the dance. It was a lot of fun!

On to the next costume...

S is part of a church kids club, anyone familiar with Awana? 

I was told that the kids could dress up as either a Bible character or an animal. Since neither Jessie or a 50's girl fit the bill, I threw together a cute mouse costume. Using the ears and tail that I had made a couple years back. 

Long story short, she ended up being the only kid dressed up!!!  

But she had lots of fun telling people she was the little mouse that lived in the stable where Jesus was born.

Then finally it was trick-or-treating day!

S got to be Jessie and T was a little puppy (familiar?).

 

 Of course the girls got tons of candy (which is actually perfect timing since they are my bribing tool for potty training). The weather was awesome and the kids were in bed by 7:45! A win,win,win!

 We also managed to get in a lil crafting Thursday afternoon. 

I was babysitting my friends little girl and we made toilet paper roll mummies and baby food jar jack o' lanterns.

 

And finally just because I have to brag up my super talented sister, here is my nephew and niece in their Pirate and Little Mermaid costumes. 

For the mermaid hair she used the same tutorial as I did for the Jessie and Rapunzel wig. I asked her if she had used any other tutorials to help her make the 100% homemade costumes and she said everything else came from her Noggin. 

Like I said SUPER talented!

Overloaded with cuteness yet?

Happy Monday!

Better Late Then Never....

As promised I said that I would post our halloween costumes from last Monday. My week got away from me, so it's a little late. Hubby didn't dress-up but me and the girls were a puppy, kitty, and a mouse!

T was a little (leopard) kitty, I bought her costume at Costco. (Next year my goal is to make all the costumes....) The night before halloween I threw together some mouse ears and a tail for myself. Add a grey shirt and some facepaint and I had a nice easy costume.


I didn't make S's costume (I got it off a garage sale site), but I am sure it's homemade. She was a cute little pink puppy. I wanted to paint on a nose but she wouldn't let me. A detail I added was to put a sign on her treat pail saying 'puppy chow'.


Once again hubby and I set aside an evening to carve jack-o-lanterns (a tradition I mentioned in this post). Usually we just do one pumpkin each, hubby and I. But this year we decided to do one each for the girls too. This is what we came up with:



And I can't help myself but to share my little nephews costume. My sister made this costume for him. Isn't he the cutest little Garden Gnome??


Although we never got to see him in person the pictures she sent are priceless. (and I asked her if I could share one with all of you) She used felt for the hat, faux fur for the beard, used his normal clothes (stuffed his belly with fluff), and she made the little suspenders. SO CUTE!! He might have to model this for us at Christmas...

So that was our halloween!