Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween 2009




Pics from the family party will have to come later - as I didn't get my camera out the entire weekend. But on Halloween night, I was able to go trick or treating with the scariest "good" dragon and beautiful evil vampire in the world. Melissa, as usual, went all out with costumes and make-up. And this year, I actually got to join in a bit!
Savannah looked awesome as a vampire. Melissa has a close-up of the cute little swirly/sparkly design on her cheek. Yes - I'm taking credit. I didn't do much besides spray hair and rub white all over, but I did do the swirly thing on Halloween. For a non-artist like myself, I think it turned out pretty dang cute! Also,she was such an awesome vampire, that when we hit a house that had run out of candy, the guy went in and got her a dollar. When he asked if she took money, she whispered in a very spooky voice, "why yes I do!"
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What else would Mikayla be besides a dragon? She's obsessed, and this just fed the obsession. But even I had to admit that she was the cutest darn dragon I've ever seen. She got more compliments while we were out trick or treating that anything I've seen! Of course, it helped that she told everyone "Beware of dragons...for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup". The adults just couldn't help themselves as they piled the candy into her bag. And as she left, she always made sure to tell them, "Good dragon's don't eat good people". We left most of them just cracking up!

The girls "carved" pumpkins. Which involved them drawing all over and Melissa and I trying to figure out a way to make it into something carvable. Savannah's was actually not too difficult. Mikayla's, on the other hand...well let's just say that I think I should be nominated for the Carver of the Year award!

Getting ready to go trick or treating with Freya and Tracey. They were a pain to lug around (we went quite a long ways and they have little feet), but we got a lot of attention from both kids and adults

Melissa's pumpkin - all lit up


Mikayla's pumpkin had a color changing light

Savannah's had a strobe light. It took about 7 tries just to get it to light up enough to see in the pic!

2 comments:

tami said...

Oh my gosh!! Those cute girls are soooooo adorable! I feel like I really missed out by not being there. You guys have too much fun :)

Thanks for sharing the pictures and the journaling of the events--makes me feel like I participated at least a bit (from afar!)

tami said...

Hey-I just found out how to enlarge the pic of Savannah so I could see her face painting. You did a beautiful job!! (Good thing I know her well enough to see beneath her evil looks)