Costume Parade

This year I knew that I couldn't be as involved in the class parties at Landon's school. As the years have progressed it seems like there is less time to put towards these kinds of things. This year I didn't sign up at all to help out with the Halloween party at Landon's school. I figured I could lend a hand during Christmas and Valentine's instead. Well....when Landon found out I wasn't going to be in charge of the party this year he was more than a little disappointed. {Which secretly made me feel REALLY good. I mean...come on...my FOURTH grader wanted me to come and hang out in his classroom STILL!!!!} He asked me if I would still at least come and watch him do his costume parade. How could I turn him down? The parade was at the same time as the class party, so I was able to sit in on a little bit and poke fun at all of his friends. Mackenzee came too {in her Dorothy costume}.

All of Landon's friends from his classroom {excluding girls....OF COURSE!}

What a handsome kid!!!!

Like last year, Landon was super excited to take Mackenzee with him as he paraded around the school. Mackenzee ate up the attention, and I think Landon enjoyed showing off his sister too. :0)

Our neighbor Whitley was in the parade too....isn't she a scary witch?

Genea dressed up as a witch this year too...

I don't know what's more scary....Landon's "gun" {he was pretending his hand was a gun}, or Mackenzee's finger up her nose....

It was a fun afternoon for all of us. I am still beaming over Landon wanting me to be a part of his school activities. I figured by now he'd be embarrased to have me hang out with him. Instead, he made sure all of his friends knew that I was his mom. I've still got the title "Landon's mom".....FOR NOW anyway. :0) I'll take it as long as I can get it!

Party for the boo-tiful people

Yesterday was our 2nd annual Halloween party. Though we had to change it up from last year, the kids still had a great time running around in their costumes. I was pleased that most of the adults paid heed to my instructions that they were to come in costume as well. It's just way more fun that way, right?

The Jaques family had their costumes totally themed up! It was so cute. Shelby was little tinkerbell, with Breanna as Wendy. Apparently Joe made the better Captain Hook because Amy was dressed as Peter Pan. {And a sassy one she was!}
The Andersons were able to make it after all and were so excited to have them come over to play. Holly gets into the costume part of Halloween just as much as I do, though I will say she gets out her sewing machine to get her costumes ready. Me.....I click on amazon.com. Same thing right? :0) She and Zack came dressed as Fred and Daphne from the Scooby Doo gang. They rocked it! Ellie was a ballerina, and apparently Abby didn't want to be Word Girl again after wearing it at her birthday party, so she came as a purple fairy. :0) She was beautiful. Of course, sweet sophie...she always comes cute. :0)

The Arringtons really got into their costumes as well. YAY! They brough me a blueberry and a cow! Emily had gotten her sew ON with this blue costume as well. It turned out so cute and actually won the aware for the Most Original Costume. Emily came as white trash, and Bryan was just a giant spiderweb. I don't like spiders. I must not have given him that memo. :0)
You know...the one thing about these parties is you see how many of your friends try to show you up with their made sewing skills. Reagan and Elise were both dressed to the nines in the fancy costumes that their mother MADE for them . Reagan was a Knight with a helmet and shield {FYI....do not call it a hat. Because that would be totally wrong......yeah.....}and Elise's costume was of Glinda the Good Witch complete with towering hat. Again....ALL was sewn by miss seamstress girl person. I think I might have to stop inviting some of these people over. :0)

The Thompson brothers came dressed as Spiderman and Black Spiderman. Sadly, I was not able to grab a shot of little sister Kennedy before they left. It appears as though she was the naughty arachnoid that got her brothers into this spiderman mess. Sigh... :0( Poor Matt and Fonda....these boys will really be climbing the walls now. :0)

After much debate with my daughter over what she would wear, she finally agreed that she would wear the costume we actually bought for her to wear. Crazy! Sigh. Toddler girls. They are a bit much.

Now, for my Landon....I don't think I saw him the entire afternoon as he was down in the hole playing the Wii with the other older boys. When it came time to take his picture as well as his friend Hatim, they had both taken off the costumes. :0( So, no individual shots of them. It would have been awesome because Landon is dressed as a Clone Trooper and Hatim is Darth Vader. That's some good stuff there. :0)

This is us at the end of the night. My Clone Trooper there to guard me against the policeman who things I'm just a pirate hussy. My Abby Cadabby girl could probably take the cop down on her own though. She's tough. She could at least turn him into a pumpkin. :0)

I missed a few pictures too, so I may steal off blog posts from others to add to my collection. I never got one of The ghostly Tatem, or sassy Mollie.

Anyway....thanks to everyone who came. I hope you had an ok time. I wish we would have resorted back to carving pumpkins. But, that's ok. We'll just move on to the next adventure. You all ready for trick or treating? We've got trunk or treating on Friday and are super pumped!

Fighting for Justice!

Since the kids got to wear their costumes, I snapped some pics of them. One less thing to have to worry about Halloween night! Now, I need to explain the costumes....Landon really wanted to have matching costumes with his sister. You know...they went together like when they dressed as Darth Vador and Princess Leah. So, clear back in September when he was stressing about it, we went online to see what we could find. We start looking and he tells me that he'll just be Moe Doodle from the Doodlebops because he knows that Mackenzee will want to be DeeDee Doodle. She loves the Doodlebops and watches this childrens show every day.Yes, this is Moe Doodle. If you haven't seen the Doodlebops on Disney, be grateful. Anyway...It's a toddler show. So I was really worried that poor Landon, in his attempt to be a good brother by matching his costume to his sisters', would get made fun of when he wore his costume to school. Kids can be cruel and my Landon is awfully sensitive. It would have ruined his whole day. We did look to see if they had the costume (I was humoring him), and thankfully they don't make this costume in his size. They stop at 5T. Go figure. ;0)

So, the next step was to figure out what Landon wanted to be and try to find a costume for Mackenzee that would match it. Much easier to do it that way than the other way around. And, of course, he still wanted to be a superhero of some kind. He's 7! Of course he'd rather be a super hero than a Doodlebop! He's started to get interested in the Justice League. So, I told him to pick a hero from there and I would have Mackenzee be Wonder Woman, who is also a member of the Justice League. He chose Captain America. So, there you have it. The saga behind this years Halloween Costumes.

And don't they look adorable? The mask doesn't work so well over Landon's insanely long eyelashes, so we pulled up the mask. And Kenzee's costume did come with the awesome boots that Wonder Woman wears, but instead of coming up just under the knees, she was wearing saggy thigh boots. So, we pulled them off and put on her sparkly black shoes instead. We'll have to figure out something for her to wear under that mini skirt to keep her warm!

Yes, my children....the superheroes of Justice! Too bad it's only a costume...I could use kids who only did the right thing right about now. ;0)