Halloween 2013

I love halloween. I strongly believe there should be more opportunies for adults to wear costumes. Having been pre-occupied with PhD-ing and Mommy-ing the last few years, I have not partaken in any personal costuming since this awesome event four years ago. I know. Outrageous.

This year, we were invited to a halloween party at our friends Melonie & Uma's house. We were going to go as (pregnant) Kim & Kanye, but had an 11th hour switch to something a bit more....erudite? Borrowing a costume idea from a facebook post about cool costumes for little girls, I decided to go as...

THE DICTIONFAIRY! (get it? like dictionary? but a fairy? yeah.....)

Mathilda helped me with my makeup, and I let her play totally unsupervised in my makeup drawer, which resulted in.....

My crafty co-workers helped me make my costume out of some hangers and an old edition of the Physician Desk Reference. Only took about 20min to complete these amazing wings

Reggie works for the CDC and therefore has easy access to respirators and the like. Obviously, he had to go as Walter White. He even wore the khaki-green button down shirt combo that Walt wore in the first episode. Brilliant attention to detail there, man!

so a dictionfairy and a meth cook walk into this party....

my good friend Lisa was at the party- and in a costume! THAT is a milestone!

Our neighborhood sponsors an adorable Halloween parade for kids, so we got a costume dry-run with my dad (P-paw) and stepmom (Bubs).

running butterfly! It was cold so poor thing had to wear 2 pair of pants and 3 sweatshirts!

chasing P-paw

Originally she told me she wanted to be a dinosaur. When I brought home the costume she wouldnt even go near it out of fear. Then she said she wanted to be a butterfly on top of a lion. That one was a bit beyond my abilities, so she settled with butterfly. 

face painted just like Mama's

so. much. pink.

Finally, it was the real thing- Halloween! The good news was it was nearly 70 degrees. The bad news was it poured. Oh well. Nothing that candy (+ beer for the adults) for dinner can't fix!  We went out with our great gang of friends + 2 year olds.

totally rocked the face paint this time + hair glitter

requisite pumpkin on the porch shot

with Elleana the lady bug- ready for candy

Antonia flaps the wings of her awesome homemade dragon costume!

a ladybug, a butterfly, a dragon, and a fireman hit the streets

loot

trick or treat!