Halloween 2014!

This has always been one of my very favorite holidays, as a kid and especially now as an adult with kids of my own! We always do a family theme…in 2012, Mason and I were both pirates with Vince and Nash dressed up as our parrots. In 2013, we were all lumberjacks and this year was no different, Mason and I were both ninja’s, Vince was a sumo wrestler and Nash was Bruce Lee! Ever try spray dying a toddlers hair black??? Yeah. Anyways, we normally head over to the Eagles Landing Fall Festival but this year we thought we might try something different, it was also unusually cold (like 45 degrees cold) and that made our decision to op for the inside Georgia Aquarium Trick or Treating event a pretty easy one. We still had to pay for adult admission but kids were free and the last time we went (for Nash’s 2^nd Birthday) we didn’t get to see everything because it was so crowded. So, this worked out well! I was a little worried it would be sold out and ridiculously packed with people but to my surprise it was very much the opposite, in fact it looked about empty…score!

So, we got to visit each attraction and the boys got some candy (not as much as I thought they’d get, but we were already planning on attending our church's trunk or treating event on Sunday so it was no biggie since we knew they’d get a ton of candy there). Everyone loved Vince’s costume…it was pretty funny and about every 1 in 5 person knew who Nash even was (come on people, get with it. Bruce was only the BEST martial artist of his time and in my opinion has never been surpassed) but I thought he looked so cute in his yellow jumpsuit. He will probably wear this until it just doesn’t fit anymore…it is definitely not just a Halloween outfit!

We also managed to squeeze in some Halloween inspired cupcakes for Tiger Scouts and the boys got to partake in another one of Mommy’s childhood classic favorite movies: The Labyrinth (Bowie at his finest)! They are already obsessed now with Howard the Duck thanks to me and Mason is even campaigning for a Howard the Duck theme for next Halloween (the hubs is not sold yet, but give us time). It is really awesome to be able to share these things that I loved as a kid with them and that they are also totally into them! Vince is already in a planning mindset for next year’s costume….

drum roll…

A builders theme…Nash is currently into Bob the Builder so he’s thinking Nash could go as him, Mason could go as a construction worker, I could go as….well…I have no idea and Vince could go as MC Hammer (get it? hammer, builder.) Yeah. I’m not sold and I think he just secretly wants to rock those old school MC Hammer pants…

I am however jumping on Mason’s band wagon and thinking we should totally do a Howard the Duck theme…Mason has already claimed Howard (that should be an interesting costume to put together), I would of course be the awesome 80’s rock star, Nash would naturally be Phil the wacky wannabe scientist and Vince without a doubt would be the Dark Overload!