Creative Brain Cells a Flowin'

The 2nd grade classes at Plano had an optional pumpkin painting project showcasing their favorite book characters.  They asked that the kids not carve the pumpkins but to paint or decorate them.  I knew immediately which character Isaac would select, the world famous Captain Underpants.  He just finished reading "Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People".  He was ready to make multiple characters from the book, but we settled on the MAIN one, Captain Underpants himself.  Isaac and I painted to body with pink acrylic paint, and Miles wanted to paint the head.  I did all the detail involving black paint which doesn't fair to well if mistakes are made.  Isaac drew the face, I filled it in, and viola, a character pumpkin was formed.

Isaac went to a superhero birthday party years ago, and all the kids received superhero capes.  I have no idea how I managed to hang onto the cape through the years.  I'm a classic NON-hoarder and have massive throw-away sessions so how it survived, IDK?  I'm glad I didn't get rid of it in this case.  We taped  a Captain Underpants logo on it and attached it to the pumpkin.  We hauled it to school on Wednesday.  I thought my arm was going to fall off by the time we made it to his class.  His teacher's jaw dropped.  She wanted me to parade it around to the other 2nd grade teachers.  I was beaming with pride and so was Isaac, I guess?  He was sheepishly hiding back in line with his classmates.  He's not a big attention seeker so it may have embarrassed him all the attention the pumpkin was getting.

The kids tried out their Halloween costumes on Wednesday night.  We went trick or treating at our church neighbors--Grant Village.  The residents there love it when our kids come over and trick or treat.  They spoil them rotten.

Isaac wanted his face painted.  It took quite a while to paint his face AND his neck.  He didn't want any of his skin showing.  He actually asked me to paint his hands too--I said, no.  This isn't his complete costume either.  Isaac is big on blending two characters.  Last year he wanted to be a Zombie Doctor, the year before A Wolf Ninja and this year he was a Gangster Skeleton.  He wore a Detroit hat and carried around a T.Pain microphone all night.  Sheesh, where does he come up with this stuff?

All of our happy Halloween campers!

Cat Girl Elizabeth, Twister Board Karson and Pink Lady Jessica posing for a picture.

I got extra creative this week and decided that it was time to buckle down and figure out a costume for Matt and I for our annual Halloween party with our friends The Evans's.  The party was on Friday night so I had an entire week to try and come up with some fabulous idea.  We talked about a number of different things and eventually decided we'd be tourists.  Then, I got the notion, we could be Malibu Barbie and Ken.  I already had the Hawaiian printed dress, and my dad had a variety of Hawaiian shirts Matt could wear.  Matt has an advantage in that he looks like Ken, but I have the dark hair and eyebrows so I had to break out the nasty blonde wig.  I have no idea how long we've had this thing, but it's in terrible shape so a side-ponytail was a must.  I jazzed it up with flower barrettes and a tissue paper poof.  It literally took the ENTIRE week to make these boxes.  Here's the rundown of what all it takes to make a Barbie box:  wardrobe boxes, four cans of pink spray paint, loads of yellow stars, superb painting of the names (I was most impressed by my skill-set with this--it was hard), a couple of print outs, tape and rope.  How crazy is that!!!!  It was a fun little project though, and everyone at the party got a kick out of it.  We even won the Most Creative award =)!

Here are a couple of other characters from the party.

Paul and Shannon had great costumes.  He came as Lloyd Christmas, and she was Black Swan.

 Lisa the Barbie Head and Daniel as the guy from the game Operation.

Kim Kardashian.

Weston came dressed up as our party host Dax.  He nailed the look.   Dax sported Magic Mike as his costume.

Me and my nemesis Barbie Head.  Barbie Head is lucky because all young girls want to do is style her hair and put make-up on her.  Barbie Doll is put through the ringer and practically tortured with constant outfit changes, potential hair cuts-or- even worse, curling/frying hair mistakes, scary younger brothers and their markers, and the list goes on.  I LOVED Lisa's costume, it was awesome!  She even let us do her make-up.

Our funny guys!

Our fan-tabulous gals!

I love that the Evans's host this yearly gathering.  You forget how fun it is to dress up in costumes and have a good ol' fashioned party.  I look forward to this event every year! I may even start working on my costume NOW for next year =)!  This week should be full of excitement with lots of fall parties and Halloween night.  Let's hope the sunshine keeps on coming out!  I can stand the cold if the sun is shining bright!