Zombie Party

With all the fun stuff we've been creating at work lately, throwing Calvin a Halloween party was a must. I let him pick between several party items from work, but the idea of a Zombie party was no contest. Of course Pinterest was a big help too!

Swamp water and zombie eyes!

We had Zombie spray (a zombie's version of monster spray and body parts for party favors).

It's not the best picture, but here are our zombie brain cupcakes.

All the cute mummies and zombies! Dalton, Liam, Logan, Calvin, Brandon and Micheal

The Haunted World

This is what Calvin has begged to do all year since his visit last year. What's pretty funny is although, he wants to hold your hand pretty tight. He doesn't really get too scared. These two faces below were the best nervous faces I got. Quite honestly, the Haunted World is one of the best I've seen, I'm surprised he didn't have nightmares over it.

Halloween and Best Friends

Calvin informed me the other day, "Wemi (Remi) is my best friend, cause she's a gwown up!" So this is him and his grown up friend Remi, trick or treating on Halloween night. By the way, Calvin also let me know that Optimus Prime always looks like that (the pose he is in with Remi).


Calvin with Tresa , Skylar and Tiffany

Calvin trick or treating at Jill and Darron's

RaeLinn's Halloween cake.

Us at the trunk or treat...a little lack luster this year, but I was just glad I could convince Calvin to wear the Grandma jammie over the werewolf costume. I had to tell him over and over again that he just ate the grandma and he was in disguise, stressing the awesomeness of eating the grandma.

Jill and I at the Fusion Magazine Party. It was the easiest thing to be since being Zombies for Calvin's zombie party.

Aladdin

Have you met Aladdin, er I mean my nephew?


This was Dall's halloween costume this year, I loved it so much I had to post it. Complete with a flying magic carpet.

Halloween Pumpkins

I forgot to post the pumpkins Calvin and I made. Calvin did a great job, but he still has a hard time with the concept of painting and preferred to draw on his pumpkins.

Halloween

I hate that I'm so behind, but I have a really good excuse, which I'll probably explain later. Anyhow, here is Halloween finally. I was bummed that Will was out of town because I lost my Joker to go with my trio. Calvin wanted to be Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, and like 12 other things, I finally got him to settle one Batman, and bought him a cheapy Iron Man for his class party. Since I like my family theme costumes, I decided to go with Posion Ivy. I was only able to find hooker Poison Ivy costumes available for purchase, so I had to make my own. It was fun though. I bought the green catsuit, and then glued a bunch of leaves that I had previously painted and glittered up to a bustier. I painted some gloves and boots, and then my finishing touch and favorite part of the costume was my eyebrow leaves. Which I glued on with eyelash glue then painted gold paint on my lid and up over the leaf.


We headed to Haunted World after the ward Trunk or Treat. Calvin had been asking to go to a haunted house. I was worried that he was going to be scared to death and permantely scarred, but he absolutely loved it! And I have to say, that is one Haunted House worth the money, they did an absolutely amazing job. I don't know how my kid just laughed through it.


We also brough Max back out for Boo at the Zoo!

Farm Man

I ran Farm Man this year, a 3k obstacle course. It was dress up, so I pulled out Jane Fonda for this one. It was a blast, and Cherie kicked my trash.

School Halloween Party and Monster Bananas

Calvin had his school Halloween party and decided on his Iron Man constume for this one. I made chocolate covered bananas, I got the idea from my friend Mary, however that was easier said then done. As many of you know, cooking is not my forte, but I usually count on my artistic skills to get me by with stuff like this. What I did learn though, is cooking is a science and a+b does not = c. Meaning, the most important thing you can know about dipping things in chocolate: DO NOT ADD WATER. Water makes ghost bananas look like furry monster bananas. So I think I ended up with like 5 smooth ghosty ones, and the rest were monsters.

The Halloween Decor

Will spent the month of October working out of town, so I had asked Jill to watch Calvin one night while I ran some errands. I come home to my house all ready for Halloween. No expense was spared, Jill let Calvin pick out any decoration he wanted from the dollar store. So even though it looked like the dollar store threw up in my house, Calvin was so stinkin' proud of the decorations that I was only able to undecorate by convincing him it was finally time to put up Christmas decorations. It was pretty cute though, I think my favorites were the bloody hand stump and the mirror werewolf.

Halloween...finally!

So I'm finally catching up on the blog today, here is the rest of Halloween.

As much work as the Wild Things costumes were, I think they were an overall success. I'm just not eager to attempt something this major again. My how-to is here.

At the costume parade at the ward party.

Calvin with his girlfriends....

Caitlynn, Calvin, Brooke and Remi.

The Decor...

I'd like you to meet Skeletor, Calvin's very own Halloween decoration. Skeletor came to live with us about a week before Halloween when I bought all the kids in Calvin's "Playschool" little skeletons since our lesson was on bodies. Calvin immediately decided he needed to be hung up. While I wasn't looking, he removed one of the frames from my frame motif, that was not only hung there with a nail, but also with double stick tape, and replaced it with our dear Skeletor. Calvin then noticed I was taking a picture of him, so he decided to hop up and be in the picture too, rockin' out on his guitar of course.

Trick or Treating

The cute neighbor girls were eager to help Calvin Trick or Treat. They are so sweet to him. He absolutely adores them. He caught onto the trick-or-treating pretty fast, however he also tired pretty fast as well. We had to leave the group after about an hour.

Caitlynn, Kaia, and Brooke

Calvin is most obessed with Remi. She is 5, and I'm pretty sure he considers her his girlfriend. He was demanding to hold her hand all night.

Boo at the Zoo

Ok so it's Thanksgiving and I'm just getting to the Halloween stuff, but here we go. The week before Halloween, we took Calvin to Boo at the Zoo. It's such a fun event for kids. Besides being able to see the animals, they can trick or treat, there are all sorts of food venues, blow up jumpies, costume contests and lots of other freebies. My little wild thing loved it!

It took Calvin a bit to catch on to the trick or treating thing, he kept trying to hand out his treats instead of getting new treats.

This is Calvin at the costume contest, it was hilarious because he is standing on a stage, and just like a true Max would, Calvin growled then jumped off the stage. We have no idea if he won or placed in the costume contest because it was so packed it took forever to see all the kids, and by that time Calvin had lost patience. We did however see some incredible costumes including the entire cast of Peter Pan. Some family had every character covered, they must have had grandmas, aunts, uncles and cousins. It was pretty incredible.

My little Wild Thing, being...wild. Actually it was a great backdrop for some fun pictures of Max.

And best of all, the giraffes were finally out of their garages!