Halloween 2014

This year for Halloween Gabe wanted to be Buzz Lightyear. He also wanted to be a shark, Heatwave, a frog, a knight, Optimus Prime and Captain Hook but Buzz was the most frequent request so we went with it. To accompany his Buzz costume, we had Calvin dress as Woody. Per usual I procrastinated putting everything together until the night before the ward Halloween carnival but with a little help from Devin, we got it all done in time!

Calvin is the only one who got a really decent picture before the ward party. Here he is as Woody. 

Devin and I decided last minute to join in the fun. He went as Sid and I went as Bo Peep. Luckily my nicest sister Julia walked me through a bonnet tutorial via Skype with hot glue and fabric remnants and I had my mom's 8th grade graduation dress to make a workable outfit. But I still don't think many people in our ward got it.

It was too sunny to get a great Buzz picture of Gabe. We got better ones on Halloween night. 

 

Devin painted and created Gabe's wings and did such a good job! Amazing what you can do with a little cardboard and paint.

Annie went with us to the ward party and then was headed to her YSA ward party after so she dressed up as Katniss and looked fabulous per usual. 

 

The following Monday we had a little party with our preschool group and we each brought a treat. We brought spooky banana ghosts and chocolate donut spiders.

 

Gabe wanted to dress as something new which was fine with me because I needed to wash his Buzz outfit (White costumes + candy ?!?) so he went as a knight. 

 

The day of Halloween we wore our spookiest purple, orange and black outfits.

 

Annie was the cutest in black and white stripes with an adorable orange floral scarf.

 

Had to throw in a picture of me wearing Calvin. SUCH a life saver with a second kid to have a wrap like this. And it went perfectly with my outfit to have  a little baby pop of orange peeking through! ;)

 

Here is Calvin on Halloween.

 A better picture of the back of Gabe's costume. 

And Gabe as Buzz! Cute kid. His front chest plate even said Buzz catch phrases and lit up!

Sweet buddy brothers together. I hope they grow up to be best friends!

 

I had way too much fun making Calvin's costume especially since it was just the appendage costume to what Gabe wanted to be. Here is his tiny gun holster and match like Woody has in Toy Story 1.

 

And as an afterthought we used electrical tape to make his boots say Andy on them. 

We took Gabe on his awesome, pushable tricycle again this year. Seriously the best way to trick or treat with a kid!

 

We went out with our friends Rachelle and Pierce (her baby). Before trick or treating we had mummy dogs and pasta salad at her house with her husband Brandon. He is a year behind Devin at Baylor and we are SO happy they live by us! They are such a fun family to be friends with and Annie loves them as much as we do!

 

Family picture

 

Rachelle, Brandon and Pierce

 

Gabe got lots of compliments on his costume and had so much fun going up to each house!

As an afterthought, once we got home we lit Gabe's pumpkin and took a little picture to commemorate it. 

Now its 10 pm and I'm putting these up on the blog while the boys (including Devin) are all asleep! Devin is in the middle of finals and is so tired. But we were grateful he took the time to come out with us so we could be togther as a family to celebrate!