Franken-tastic Frankie & The Magic Dragon {Boo Brothers}

happy halloween

from us & our

{boo} beans! xoxo

Happy Halloweeeeeennnn!!!

What to be? What to be? Isn't that the way every Halloween costume conversation starts? Well in our house it does. This year Orion happily decided on an Air Force Pilot:) So my wheels were put into motion. Inspired by my neighbor friend, Jillian, who made 3 of her children Roman Solider helmets, thought I'd give it a go with Orion's.

Started with cardboard cutouts (lower back piece and forehead) taped to a balloon, then I mixed 2 parts flour and 1 part water, used for glue to adhere the newspaper. And slowly the process began, building up layer, after layer. We had some sunshine for a bit here and there, was able to place the helmet outside for drying, those days I could get 2 layers done. Once thick enough and dry, I painted the helmet black. I must add there was lots of paint mixing in our costume making this year.

Orion giving the balloon a pop!

Daddy painted the helmet camouflage for Mommy.
And might I say... He did a fantastic job!!!
He insisted we needed at least
3 shades of color... you were right babes:)

Included in the costume was a ventilation
mask with hole cut in middle for tube to fit through.
Pilot's air mask while flying high altitude.
In the rush of photo taking, Halloween night, it was left out:(

Orion also sported a camouflage vest and awesome bag
with his own personalized camouflage initials, both made by me:)

I also made one for Orion's great friend, Andrew, for his 6th birthday!

And here he is my...
~Air Force Pilot~

Halloween '08 ~ Pikachu

Ethan was an owl again this year:)

Sorry buddy but you wore this last year for

about a minute before going to bed!

~Hoot Hoot~

  Halloween '08 (left)  ~  Halloween '09 (right)

Look how big he's gotten!!!

~Halloween Howls & Giggles~

~Trick or Treat~

Cousin Connor came along for Trick or Treating again this year!

This was the first year I've officially walked/ran the neighborhood trick or treating (T&T) with the kids. The evening was unusually warm, not really the feeling of a chilly Hallows Eve. But we persevered anyway. Grandmother, Grandpa, Aunt Rachael, Uncle Jeremy, and Connor came over to go T&T the neighborhood with us. I had such a blast:) Loved showing Orion how I did T&T when I was a kid. First and foremost, homemade costumes by Nana:) Running from door to door with our pillowcases trying to fill 'em to the top! Grampy in toe, headlights lighting the way. Neighborhood to neighborhood, til our feet felt like they would fall off! Getting home and spreading the loot out on the floor for inspection. And then the weeks and weeks of candy bliss:) Oh the joy! My favorite part is that after I got him going, running from house to house telling him this story, in the end, you wanna know what he said? " You're awesome, Mommy!" That was awesome!

And Daddy with Ethan... what a trooper:) Ken carried/walked with Ethan from door to every other door. Where Ethan promptly greeted candy givers with a "yes" (his version of please), in loo of a "trick or treat". It was ridiculously cute, Ken really wanted Ethan to have the full on Halloween experience. Ethan was also very interested in the Halloween yard decorations, could have stood there all night if we'd of let him!

Ken & I also got in on the action!

We had a Halloween Housing Warming to attend.

Not wanting to be a poor sport I came up with these guys last minute:)

What are we???

~Pacman & The Red Ghost~

Don't we look like we should have a pitch fork and shovel in hand? Ha!

They were a hit at the party!

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!!!

Halloween...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Has come and gone and Thanksgiving is fast approaching! So I figured I'd better get my Halloween post done before then. So Halloween was a blast for Orion! He loved his Pikachu costume that I was able to make for him. He went with his Daddy and a friend from down the street and his Daddy. Orion's cousin Connor came a little later and caught up with them for some last minute trick or treating:) He came home with an enormous candy stash that we are still trying to get rid of!

Ethan had a great afternoon of wearing his owl costume I made for him. He was unable to make it to trick or treat time. His bed time is around 6:30 or 7pm. So he didn't get to hand out candy with me either but that was okay. I really think is going to love pretend play because he could not get enough of him self in the mirror with the costume. And I have to mention that this costume was made especially for my father who affectionately calls Ethan "Hoot Hoot" because of his big eyes:) He thinks he looks like an owl.

He even ate dinner in his costume, but you can tell he is getting sleepy:)

Here they are together right before Orion left to go out trick or treating. They love each other sooo much! All day I had been trying to get that smiling shot of Ethan and all it took was a little bit of that Big Brother charm:)

My Happy Halloween apron I was able to finish that morning! But I made it reversible so I could get more use out of it:) I did enjoy wearing it all day and then handing out candy in it. Received many compliments. Hope everyone else had as happy a Halloween as we did:)

Pumpkin Pickin'

On Sunday we finally decided that it was time to get our pumpkins! Orion had a joyous time pushing around the wagon and getting to pick out his pumpkin ALL by himself!

He loves his little brother!

Ethan enjoyed the experience as well but was still rather interested in eating grass and hay! All in all we ended up with three great pumpkins to carve! The biggest is Orion's, Mommy and Daddy have a mid-sized one, and Ethan of course has the baby pumpkin:)

Yummy Hay!
So cute:)
Say Pumpkin!
Our three pumpkins...
Daddy & Ethan
Mommy & the boys... rare photo:)
The whole family... these are the first shots I have gotten of ALL 4 of us together! I can't believe it has taken me sooooo long.

Later that night we sat down on the kitchen floor, came up with our designs and then cleaned out our pumpkins. We saved our seeds to make Roasted Pumpkin Seeds later:)

I did Ethan's pumpkin, poor guy was asleep, I came up with a cute little ghost.

Orion created his own Vampire Jack-o-Lantern! Ken traced his design and cut it out for him.

He is so proud:)

Rare photo of Mommy & Daddy

It was a great family day:)