Halloween

“BIII BA LIIII BOO!’  Cairn turned Cerise in  to…
The cutest ladybug you’ve ever seen! (Unless you saw Elizabeth Hoffer in her Halloween costume… then you’ve seen the two cutest ladybugs, but I haven’t seen her yet so I will remain biased)

So, here’s the promised comparison pictures so everyone can see who Cairn is dressed as:

We tried to convince Cairn to let us spray her hair pink too… but she likes her ‘yellow’ hair so much she refused adamantly.

Here’s Cairn with the Brimhalls (Callie, Trevlyn and Landon in order) that you see a lot of in our preschool pictures.  What can I say?! They’re a major part of our life right now!  And we love them!  And Cerise was playing monkey on the bar, just happy as could be to swing and drop over and over and over again.

These pictures are actually from our church Halloween party.  It was a two ward chili cook off and trunk-or-treat at the ball park (for those of you not familiar with Tucson… the church owns a ball park with space for two soccer fields, one baseball field, a huge pavilion and small park.  I think it’s technically called the Binghampton Family Ball Park, but I’ve only ever heard of it as ‘the ball park.’).  Grant went as Captain Hammer from Dr. Horrible’s Sing Aong Blog if you haven’t seen it, see it.

I was a green M&M.  It wasn’t until we were home that we all realized there was no picture of me so it’s sort of kind of really rushed and not so cute… but that’s life,eh?



    

We may not have gotten a satisfactory picture of me, but here’s one that about me: Yeah, check it out! I got first prize for the chili cook off!… but I’m actually a little disappointed by that because I loooove spicy chili, but can’t make mine so because I need to make sure left-over chili can be eaten by the girls.  So I always make it just as spicy as Cairn can handle (Cerise actually really likes spicy food!).  That being said I look for the spicy stuff at events like this… I tried or smelled every chili there and mine was it.  Maybe I should just make something beyond the girls to satisfy my disappointed taste buds…
Now for the tale of this costume:
This is Shalla Despain, our next door neighbor.  The day before the party she came up to my door to ask when the party started.  When I told her she expressed the hopeless plight of trying to find a costume by then.  So I started throwing out ideas of what I had considered and seen at thrift stores. 
Then I remembered she has a purple dress.  Even though it was darker than the one in the movie I thought that with the additions of some yellow hair coloring and my cast iron frying pan she could be a quick Rapunzel.  This excited her and triggered a memory so she ran into her home to pull out a few yards of lavender fabric that she happened to have sitting around and a box of random patterns.
So I dug through the patterns, took her measurements and we were left with one that would fit her.  Unfortunately it was a bag of a dress with straight sides and only some darts at the breasts to shape it at all…  But with a little ingenuity, a few random scraps and 5 hours total I think I made a down right decent Rapunzel dress.  And then I forgot to hand her my frying pan!