Halloween 2014

I’m sure everyone is with me on this one, but how the heck is it November already? Cannot believe that the holidays are now upon us and it’s almost 2015! I can’t believe it, yet I’m more excited than ever. Let’s start with a Halloween recap, shall we?

 Two weekends ago we had our annual pumpkin carving party. We head up to the local farm and go pumpkin picking. They have a Unicef festival, complete with all you can carry pumpkins for $35.00. Of course the boys were up to the challenge. 

 

Here’s Wayne, who was given 3^rd most impressive of the day!

A man and his competitive spirit.

There's 7 pumpkins in there - somewhere!!

Then it was onto the carving! I got two pumpkins, but only ended up carving my little one, a paw print for Mr. Mack! Wayne randomly chose to carve Phineas, or Ferb is it?

 

 Mr. Mack looking so festive in his candy corn bandana!

 He said he wanted to dress up, so we agreed.

Halloween was great! I loved having it on a Friday so we could actually celebrate on the day. Wayne and I dressed as, Wayne and Garth from Wayne’s World! We have used face paint quite a few times in the past, and I definitely put the kibosh on that this year. I didn’t want to have to worry about touching my face, my hair sticking to it, etc, so facepaint was off limits. We agreed on Wayne and Garth and it was a great compromise. 

We actually had most of the costume already. There is no shortage of flannels in our house, so that was all set, and I had some old ripped jeans from college when they were in style. A white t-shirt and a black t-shirt, and we just needed the accessories! I made the hat since we didn’t want to buy one for $25.00 and never wear it again. I got a plain black hat from the craft store, cut out a stencil of the logo, filled it in with chalk, and painted over it with white fabric paint! It actually was pretty easy and I think it came out perfect for a mere $3.00! We did have to get wigs to pull off the hair. I had a hard time finding one for Wayne, we went with a long dark straight wig and just cut it to the shoulders. It was a little… crooked and looked more like a bob haircut, but what can ya do! My wig I originally got was a blonde wig with bangs from Amazon. We were planning on doing the same, cutting it short and then teasing it. Well, the wig was a white haired Lady Gaga wig and not blonde at all, so.. that didn’t work. We tried it on Mack for a laugh, (photo above). My hair isn’t quite brown, and isn’t quite blonde, but light enough, so we agreed that just teasing it would be best. Add in a borrowed pair of fake glasses, and may I present to you Wayne and Garth!

What did everyone dress up as? Hope you all had a great time! Looking forward to next year with Halloween being a Saturday! Oh that will be fun!

And now, here we are with the skeletons and some pumpkins packed away, thinking about Thanksgiving décor. I have quite a few small orange pumpkins left. I’ve been thinking about painting them white and going with a white/gold/neutral theme for Thanksgiving. Time to get brainstorming!

 

xo