Halloween Part 1: Thursday and Friday

We had the busiest Halloween this year! There were so many fun activities that I will have to break the blog entry up into two posts. Here goes!

Lets start at the beginning. In August Noah informed me that he wanted to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween. Not wanting to be caught at the last minute combing the aisles at Party City for something (anything!) like last year, I went ahead and ordered the costume 2 months early. Of course then Noah told me that he had decided to be a T-Rex. I told him maybe next year, but this year he was being Buzz cause Mommy already paid for it! In a rare moment of agreeableness he consented and so we had our costume. (Liam got to be a skeleton because it was on sale for 40% off at Babies R Us a few weeks ago. I can only be so prepared folks!)

On Thursday the fun began when Noah joined me for my Zumba class. It was family Zumba that night and the instructor made costumes mandatory. Noah was happy to break out Buzz for the first time and I grabbed some cat accessories to pair with my all black spandex. Don't worry, its not as scary as it sounds.

My regular Zumba buddy Jennifer brought her daughter Ann Connolly too. Those two had a blast dancing around. Watching Noah attempt the choreography to Thriller was priceless!

On Friday Noah had his class Halloween party. All the kids brought their costumes to change into and then enjoyed pizza and dessert. Noah of course ate goldfish and water. I didn't snap any pictures because I had Liam in one hand - and Noah's unwanted slice of pizza in the other - but lets just say it was 12 kids running around in costumes laughing and being crazy.

Finally Friday night rolled around and the adult fun began! One of our neighbors was having a costume party and we (well, I ) decided it would be fun to go. Wes balked at the whole costume idea but I came up with a solution to pacify "Mr. No Fun".  After googling couples costumes online I found the idea of going as War and Peace - Wes was a soldier and I was a hippie. This worked for two reasons. First, the "costume" that Wes wore was just his Air Force uniform so it was nothing embarrassing or attention grabbing. And second, both of our costumes cost absolutely nothing. Free always makes my husband happy! We joined some friends and spent the evening just having fun and hanging out without kids. It was fabulous!



Wes in his costume.

Katy, me and Jan... a.k.a.  Daisy Duke, the hippie, and Cleopatra.

Good thing Cesar brings his own wine everywhere.  Joe is always a good guy to have around!

Daisy and cousin Bo. Zach, you were definitely the better Bo! :)


Well that's it for now. I will finish up tomorrow with the rest of the Halloween fun!