WW: Fall Festival

My boys had their Fall Festival at school on Friday. Dressing up is completely optional. I didn't know if we'd be able to go. We were supposed to have company that weekend. As it turned out the in-laws couldn't make it. :(

Mica wanted so bad to be a Star Wars character. I refused to pay full price for an adult costume. I love Halloween, but I have a few rules: I don't want to spend a long time on a costume, I don't want to spend a lot of money on a costume, and I try and use some of what I already have or go to the second hand store to get some things. He decided to go with Captain America once again. It's getting a little tight. For sure next year he'll need an adult sized costume.

To Isaak every Halloween should be scary, so he went as a Zombie again. The costume was huge last year, and fit well this year. He ripped it by yanking it out of his drawer. Travis decided to Duct tape it and staple it together instead of sewing it. Perfect!

I'm something new almost every year. Since I teach at an art college dressing up is something most teachers do. I won a banana package off of Mail4Rosey's blog. I rolled with that. I had on crazy pattered tights, and a yellow skirt. I couldn't decide if I should paint yellow over my whole face, arms, and have all yellow hair. I ended up with this:

Do you dress up for Halloween?

WW: Fall Festival {Linky|

The boy's school has a fall festival every year. They have a lot of games, a haunted house, food, and Duct Taped the principal to the wall. 

We dressed up for the event:

Isaak the Zombie

Mica as Captain America

I Went as a Box of Cheez-Its

 

A kid at the festival said, "I want some Cheez-Its." I just turned around, and he laughed.

 

WW: Dressing Up Before Halloween {Linky}

This weekend we went to the library's Spooktacular Event. There were older, and younger kids there. I tried to teach Isaak how to play checkers against Indiana Jones AKA Mica. Mica wasn't having in. He was mad that we were winning. At least I got a good photo out of it.

A few weeks ago the boy's school had a fall festival. I tested out my Coraline costume. If you've seen the movie, I'm the "Other Coraline". I teach at an art school, so costumes are big at work. I'm glad I dressed up for the event. I realized that having buttons glued to the tops of my eyebrows would never last all of Halloween day. They drove me nuts for just a few hours! Blinking hurt! Since then I made button glasses per say. It's wire that attaches the middle of them, skin colored elastic that wraps around my head, and layers of hot glue on the bottom and back of the buttons to make them pop out, so I can blink easily. They don't look as cool, but they are much more comfortable.

Kids at the festival saw me, and asked how the buttons were on my eyes? The silly/twisted person that I am said, "I sewed them there." Their eyes got really big. I had to laugh, and told them the truth. They were glued above my eyebrows.

The boys have been ready for Halloween for some time. They love Halloween. Truth be told, they like dressing up at least once a week.

Isaak's Superman and Mica's Indiana Jones.

Mica's been getting into character by watching The Young Indiana Jones series that we checked out at the library.

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Fall Festival

On Friday we had a Fall Festival to go to for Mica's elementary school. They don't have a class party; instead they have one big massive fall party. It's full of games, prizes, cake walks, bouncers, food and a haunted house. Many come dressed up.

Daddy and I didn't plan on dressing up. Then last minute Daddy said, "Where's that scary mask I own?" He decided to wear that along with one of my dresses. Ha Ha! I was waiting for Daddy to dress up and Isaak to finish dinner, so I decided to join in on the dressing up to. I have to dress up for work, so I usually have a costume for that anyhow.

Here's Daddy:

He got some pretty good stares, some kids avoided passing him (gee I wonder why?) and he got a lot of laughs.

Here I am:

I'll do much better on the makeup for Halloween. Remember I was rushing.

Here are the boys:

Isaak might be Buzz Light Year for Halloween. We haven't decided. That costume is from Mica. I most certainly didn't want to mess with wings for the Fall Festival. I'm glad we got a lot of use out of Batman and Super-Man! The Y had a super hero party and the boys dress up a lot in those costumes.

Here's Mica with one of his friends from school:

His friend begged Mica to go through the haunted house one more time. Mica did. Then his friend shut his eyes through the whole thing. Mica claims haunted houses do not scare him one bit. He's been asking to go to real ones that he sees advertised on billboards. I said, "Not until you are 10 or so." Even his cousin that is in middle school can't handle some of those.

*Note for next year: Make a few cakes. We got there early and they were already out of cakes for the Cake Walk. I kind of forgot about it this year. I didn't much see it advertised. I'll make a few next year. I always liked Cake Walks when I was a kid.

*Note for now: Any costume goes for Halloween. That's the fun of it. Look at my husband above! I have to say that I'm sick of the sexy costumes for girls and women! It's like we don't even have a choice. It's almost easier to dress up as a man than it is to dress up as a woman. I'm most certainly not going to dress up for work all sexy. I hate that young girls do not have a choice. Sexy is practically the only option.