Eight Years on Halloween!!

This year a round of bad, stormy, tornadoish weather caused trick-or-treating to be postponed a day, which in turn meant that running through the neighborhood collecting candy was the main event at Rhett's sleepover birthday party! Everyone actually thought it was pretty awesome!

Elaina, after an entire year of saying she was going to be a skeleton, pulled a switch on me and about two weeks before Halloween insisted that she was going to be Sophia the First. So, Sophia it was!

Rhett was a boxer.....

along with his bud Silas. 

Sophia was so cute that I had to put another picture of her here:)

And, even though this picture doesn't do it justice (it just looks like a bunch of dandruff) her bun was drenched in sparkle spray. She LOVED it (and has asked to have sparkle hair at least 10 times since then!)

Cade and his friends decided to be Presidents. Cade chose Ronald Reagan. 

He had one line, "Mr. Gorbechev, Mr. Gorbechev, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!". He spoke it well. And his mask creeped me out...big time. In fact, Bobby stood on the stairs in the house with the dumb thing on and waited for me in the dark. I collapsed into a heap a few stairs down and nearly wet myself. Ronald Reagan face in the dark when you're not expecting it is no bueno. 

Here's the rest of his crew: Abe Lincoln and Richard "I'm not a crook" Nixon. 

Grant went as this blue man. What is this costume you say? To which I'd answer two things: Strange and I don't know. 

Callan was his purple cohort and the colors complimented our neighborhood friend quite well! 

 This is where Halloween gets all precious. I love cute little costumes on cute little kids. These three fit the bill. 

 Elaina turned in earlier than everyone else. Her little princess feet just couldn't take running to another house. And they were probably like little ice cubes since she insisted wearing sandals even though it was quite chilly. She got a huge (to her) bag of loot! 

Once the treating was over it was time to head in for Rhett's birthday fun. I put a "no candy tonight" rule on (I know....I know...It's Halloween! But I didn't want folks getting bellyaches over too much junk!). 

We did some singing and brought out the requested chocolate cake. 

Candles were lit....

 and blown out. Now, let's just talk about this cake for one second. Rhett had requested my mom's chocolate cake. However, my mom was going out of town and I didn't want to bother her with it. SO, I decided I'd try to make it myself (her's is from scratch you know.) I did pretty good until it came to getting the cakes out of the pan and that's when it all came tumbling down....literally. So, while Rhett's cake may have looked a total disaster (as you can see clearly below) it was actually very tasty! I giggle because Rhett patted me on the back and said, "It's okay Mommy. You did your best." Thanks for the encouragement Little Buddy:) 

I love you Rhettiboo and I'll love you for 8x80 more years to come! 

Halloween Frights!

I know I titled this "Halloween Frights" but there is really nothing frightening about this post at all. Unless you are terrified of girls that are frighteningly cute then you should be okay:) Arrrghhhh, Ye Matey! 

I handed Elaina a magazine months ago that was full of girly costumes. There were queens, princesses, frillies, fairies.....you name it. There were 2 pages or so of boy costumes. She immediately pointed and said, "I'm a pirate!" and she stuck with her guns. So, pirate she was and boy was she cute! 

We buddied up with our pals to hit the streets. Cheerleader left us in the dust with all the big boys but the Skeleton stuck around like a true pirate friend! (Or it may have been because he was just as slow as pirate :) )

Grant was my sister's go to Halloween costume: A Hobo. I know my mom has a picture of that somewhere because I can see it plain as day in my mind's eye. I'll post it for comparison if I can dig it up :)

What's a Hobo without a Hobo buddy? How much do you want to bet that Grant is smiling for this picture behind that mask?

Cade decided to go as a nerd. I'm a little concerned at how well he pulled this off. I had to get him a butt-cut wig because I don't care what kind of product you choose, you can NOT make his helmet hair do anything ridiculous. It is what it is and it's not moving. 

He geeked out with some of his school friends. Whenever I think of this picture it still makes me giggle. Bobby said that they got a lot of "awwwwww"s from teenage girls walking around. I guess when you've got it, you've got it. Butt cuts or not:)

Then there's Old Granpa Rhett.

After I put that mustache on his upper lip I thought we could have just as easily put him in short red shorts and a Hawaiian button up and gone as Tom Selleck. Pretty sure the funniness would have been lost due to the age gap. But I would have laughed. A lot.

Old Nursing Home Grandpa meets Sunday Morning in the Hampton's Grandpa:

It was another fun Halloween night spent with friends. I feel that it should be noted that only 48 hours after the Halloween festivities, Rhett Morgan hid his candy bag in his closet (obviously unbeknownst to me), overdosed on candy(clearly not following the rule of 1 piece after lunch and 1 after dinner), and vomited (always against the rules here as I can't stand vomit and find it completely intolerable if said vomit is due to stupidity) missing his last baseball game of the season (a real nail biter I was told). After recovering on the couch for about an hour he stood up, rubbed his belly, and said with a click of his tongue, "Well, I'm not sick. Looks like I just made some baaad choices!" I wonder how many times I'll have to hear that line in his lifetime. Lord, help me. No, really. Help me.