::e's first halloween::

Elliott had a busy day on Halloween.  He came to hang out with us while we handed out candy in front of the salon for Halloween on the Hill.  He enjoyed watching all of the kids come by in their costumes, and they all loved seeing him too.  We had around 1500 kids come through over the course of 3 hours. It was wild!

Afterwards, we took him "trick-or-treating" at our friends and family's houses. His Pia even had a special bag just for him, with a few of his favorite treats and a couple of new outfits.  We also met up with a cute little bird and lady bug while we were out.  Elliott is quite the ladies man.

He was R2D2, in case you couldn't tell.  I saw the outfit on Etsy for $48, but you know I couldn't bring myself to spend that kind of money on a Halloween costume, so I made one myself.  It was super easy. I just cut out the shapes on felt and hot glued them to the onesie and the hat.  I thought he was even cuter than the original R2.

I think his first Halloween was a big success. We're still making ourselves sick eating candy every night.

pumpkin carving

Gary and I decided to carve a pumpkin with Elliott the other night.  He was more interested in playing with the pots and pans on the floor while we worked, but we had a good time nonetheless. We listened to Halloween music on Pandora, carved the pumpkin, and roasted the seeds. I loved spending this time with my boys, and I'm looking forward to doing this with them again next year when Elliott can be a little more involved. Hope you had a good Halloween! We'll post pictures of E in his costume in a few days. You won't want to miss it, he was super cute!

Happy Halloween!

Hope you all had a fun Halloween.  We spent our evening on the couch, eating chili, catching up on our DVR, and handing out candy to the Trick-or-Treaters.  We did dress up for a couple of Halloween parties this weekend though.  I thought I'd share a few pictures of our costumes:

My skeleton family.

Me with Lucile Ball.

Witches Brew 2011

Our friends Justin and Bekah as Garth and Kat from SNL.

Our skeleton costumes were inspired by a photo I found on Pinterest.  I had Laura draw out our skeletons on freezer paper, then I cut it out to create a stencil, ironed the stencil on the shirts and pants, painted the stencil on with fabric paint, then removed the freezer paper.  Ta da!  A cute little skeleton family.  I liked mine so much, I wore it again tonight while handing out candy.

Happy Halloween, friends!

Halloween Spooktacular!

Saturday night some of our friends from church held their annual "Spooktacular" Halloween party at their house.  There were around 66 people in attendance, and all were decked out it awesome costumes.  Gary and I won best couples costume as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.  I made the costumes myself with red sweatpants and a yellow t-shirt.  I cut the collar and bow tie out of felt and hot glued it to the shirt.  The hats and bald caps were bought at a local Halloween store, and I glued the orange felt to the hats to make their hair.  We were both stuffed with a pillow to make our middles round.  It was so much fun putting the costumes together and revealing them to our friends Saturday night.  Every time I looked at Gary I could not stop laughing. 

You can see everyone's costumes on Grant's website. Check them out, because they are all awesome!

Hope your Halloween was a fun one, here's to November.

Halloween on the Hill.

Today was the annual "Halloween on the Hill" trick-or-treating extravaganza for the churches and businesses in Park Hill.  Kids come from near and far to trick-or-treat, and they come by the hundreds.  This was Katherine Grant Salon and Spa's first year to be involved in Halloween on the Hill, and we had a great time dressing up and seeing all the cute kids!

The candy squad.



Several of our clients came by.



An owl and a kitty.



Herb and his grandson, Ironman.



Who's that lady? Mark, our massage therapist...



The kids thought Mark was hilarious!

Tonight Gary and I stayed at home and enjoyed some time together.  We cooked dinner, continued our tradition (4 years strong!) of carving a pumpkin, and roasted the pumpkin seeds. This year we carved the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.  This has by far been our most ambitious jack-o-lantern to date, and we were very pleased with the outcome!

What a fun day we had today.  I'm worn out now! Hope you all have a fun, safe Halloween.