As most of you know, the months preceding Halloween around our house tends to be filled with pins, material and sewing machines. As I've said before I really don't care either way about Halloween but I do enjoy making costumes and dressing up. However, this year I had a super hard time motivating myself to sew anything. It's been an unusually busy year for us and my creative drive was limited. Next year I tell myself!
Even without all the oodles of hours sewing we had a fun Halloween, marked by a visit from Aunt Jillynne, a trip to the Air Show, the Trunk 'r Treat at church, Trick 'r Treating around our neighborhood with all of our friends and finalized with all of the kids huddled in one big mass on the driveway digging through their mounds of candy.
As you will notice there are NO pictures of Mr. Ken. If you are wondering why, well he had been suffering from some knotted up muscles and pinched nerve of sorts in his back/neck. This made Ken's interest in the Halloween festivities about a negative 100.
I did sew Daria's costume. She wanted to be a water fairy. Simple, cheap and quick. Dustin went as an Army Special Forces soldier (surprise surprise I bet you would have never guessed) In fact since I didn't spend what I usually do on material this year I put that money into Dustin's costume. He has wanted a Army uniform since he was 3 or 4 years old, and he will definitely get use out of it and already has.
I went as a WWII Red Cross Volunteer Nurse. No I did not make this outfit, and no it is not a store bought replica, in fact this outfit is the REAL DEAL, made and manufactured in the US between WWI and WWII. Now you are probably wondering how in the world I got my hands on this. As I mentioned on Saturday we attended the Air Show. One of the reasons we attended of course was to enjoy the Air Show, but I had also been asked to photograph the WWII Tora Tora reenactment by a friend of ours in the WWII reenactment unit. The only catch... I had to dress up as a WWII nurse in order to be on the field with the guys. I didn't hesitate and jumped at the chance for this opportunity and adventure. It was a blast! The dress belonged to our friend's father's girlfriend during the WWII era (did you catch that), and he allowed me to wear it that evening for Halloween too. How's that for cool!
Karie, Daria, Kat (homecoming Queen)
It's almost impossible to get Dustin to take a serious picture!
Dustin, Aunt Jillynne, and Daria
The following are pictures of Dustin's outfit. His name is actually on his uniform but since I'm posting this to my blog I smudged it out which makes it look a little lame, but I'd rather not have our last name on the world wide web.
Right shoulder: Special Ops Command
Left Shoulder: Special Forces, Airborne (that would be the Green Beret's), master parachutist badge, air assault badge, combat infantry badge, First Class Sergeant, LOL! boys can dream right! In real life those badges are EXTREMELY hard to earn.
We stopped by Brother L.'s house and he let Dustin try on his beret.
