Halloween- 2013

Halloween 2013

 

 

 

I knew Brynlee wanted to be a princess for Halloween for a while.  The problem was, which princess?  She would give me a different answer every day because she loves all of the princesses.  She was getting a princess dress-up trunk of clothes and accessories for her birthday (5 days after Halloween).  I decided to just give her the box early and let her choose that day which princess to be.

It turns out the only one that fit was Cinderella, but she was pretty happy with it.  She really wanted "glass slippers", but she had to make do with her church shoes and tights.

 

 

Brynlee with her cousin Jaxon.  He refused to put on his Santa hat and hold the bag of presents, he was still cute.

After showing off to Grandma and Grandpa- we went to our ward Trunk or Treat.  They had soup and rolls plus walking around the parking lot getting candy from the trunks of people's cars.  It was perfect for her age.  We went back to Miller's for more treats after dinner.  Brynlee got a lot of candy.  Her favorite are the suckers.

 

 

Decorating the pumpkins.

Instead of carving, I let Brynlee paint her pumpkin.  She liked it for a few minutes, then started painting mine.  John always has to find some masterpiece to do, so he carved Cinderella from a stencil.  Mine was supposed to be the big pumpkin eating the little pumpkin with blood dripping around the mouth.  But the blood stained my hands and the table and did not stick on the pumpkin.  Guess it's only meant for human skin and not pumpkin skin...

 

 

 

John's sister showed me a picture of a shirt like this (above) in September.  They were $20 or so to buy and of course that is way more than I wanted to spend on a shirt I would wear once.  So I found the black shirt for $2.50 (better than I could find at D.I.), John printed out a stencil of the ribs and baby, then somehow figured out how to make it work for the shirt.  We found some white "sprayable" paint at the craft store.  It was a piece of crap and didn't really spray.  It was enough to get the stencil outlined, then I went back over it with a brush and white paint I already had.  I took back the sprayable paint because it was crap and I knew I would never use it again.  So in total I spent $2.50 for the shirt instead of $20 plus.  I tried to put a blue bowtie on the baby skeleton, but I am not that crafty.  It was fun because I had just announced on facebook a few days before that we were pregnant, but many people from the ward are not on facebook so it was another announcement.  My sister in law Diane also announced her pregnancy with the same type of shirt (which was a surprise for all of us!)