Halloween dress ups

For the first time in our marriage.... my very creative husband decided that he would ACTUALLY dress up for Halloween. It hasn't been for a lack of trying on my part though over the years. Every Halloween would come and I'd ask if he would dress up with me and the response was always the same... "only if its a super awesome costume". So then Halloween would zoom by with no costume wearing for Elliot. But that was fine.

This year was different though. About a month before Halloween we talked about some fun ideas for costumes. All of a sudden the ball started rolling and before we knew it- our front room was turned into costume land. Ell's super creative mind was working overtime and the process had begun. There was no turning back now.

We decided that we were going to do a "Star Wars" theme. We already had a helmet for Boba Fett and Elliot really wanted to take on that character. So, after a ton of work on his "outfit" ~ Mr. Boba came to life...... and all I can say is hubba hubba :)

Then, I went thrift store shopping and for about $4.00 I had a complete Princess Leia costume put together for myself. (I LOVE thrift store finds!)

We had Macie's costume already which was Yoda (and what a cute little yoda she made) - so she was taken care of.
And at the thrift store I found a Darth Vader costume and mask for Scot for only $6.00 so that was soon checked off the list too.

The only question mark left was Ellie....... who should she be?


We (and I mean Ell) decided that he wanted to create an R2D2. What was thought to be an easy project with getting a garbage can, spray paint, etc... turned into a major and I mean MAJOR project. The right garbage can could not be found so hula hoops were bought and fastened together with wood, followed by cardboard screwed into the hoops, and vents made out of duct tape, and the top assembled mostly out of more duct tape. I think I bought duct tape 3 days in a row. We seriously underestimated the amount of duct tape that could go into an R2D2.


Anyway, after at least 20+ hours spent on this one costume alone.... it was enormous but complete .

Ellie didn't love wearing the R2D2 because it was heavy and uncomfortable and people kept poking at her. But she was a trooper and wore it to a couple of ward trunk or treats that we went to.

We even accumulated another Star Wars member...... our friend Sean who was a Jedi.

For the first time EVER this year~ our kids actually went REAL Trick or Treating. We joined our friends the Bradfords and had a great time in a super crazy neighborhood filled to the brim with trick or treaters. Only this time- I was R2D2 and Ellie was Princess Leia. It was so fun . The kids had a great time running from house to house and lets just say that Elliot and I felt like rock stars. Every 2 minutes people would come up and ask if they could take their picture with us (r2 and Boba). It was great. I think it was our 5 minutes of fame :)

So, Halloween is done.

My husband once again has outdone himself.

And although it was a ton of fun~

I am glad to have my front room

(and husband) back .