So Saturday was Halloween. In case you weren't aware of it, I'm here to remind you. You're welcome. As promised, I have pictures of myself and The Cowboy in our costumes, as well as The Cuteness and Stinky in theirs, AND of The Cuteness in her hat. It's a picture bonanza here.
The Cowboy decided about a month and a half ago that he was going to go as a clown. Now, let me just tell you all something about The Cowboy, if I haven't said it already. I'm gonna let you in on a little secret about him. He is All About Business. When he sets his mind on something, ANYthing, he is going to follow it through to the bitter end and obsess about it until it's perfect.
Guitar building, pickle making, getting a TV signal on the computer in the bedroom, not wearing a belt to work, locksmithing, boycotting Sprint - whatever it is, you can bet that when he decides he's on board - he is On Board.
So, he wanted to be a clown. He searched the Halloween stores and the innernets to find just the perfect costume. He purchased props, including a water squirting flower, a horn and a "BANG" gun. He researched clown makeup and balloon animal craftmanship. I'm not making this up. Here is the final product:
Meet "Robert" the Clown. He thought it was heeeeeeelarious that his clown name was Robert. Sometimes I don't get his humor.
Meanwhile, I couldn't decide what the hell to be for Halloween. I was back and forth between a witch (boring) and one of the girls from the Robert Palmer videos from the 80s (figured I'd have to spend all night explaining it to my friends who, I love, but are from Texas and therefor listened to Randy Travis in the 80s and not Robert Palmer....not that I'm disrespecting Randy Travis). The costumes both involved the same basic black dress that I've had since I was in high school (and still fits! thanks to stretchy material, but still, a victory), and I would accessorize with either a pair of striped tights and a hat, or a bunch of hussy makeup and the guitar from our Wii Rock Band. It was a toss up. As I said, I'd always wanted to do the Robert Palmer thing, but I figured the humor of it would be lost on my countrified friends, so I nixed that. And the witch thing was easy enough, but not original or creative. So at the last minute, I threw together this costume. I figured my countrified friends could appreciate this.
Rodeo Clown! We already had clown makeup. I had the hat, the shorts and the shoes. I bought the striped socks, the bandannas, and the shirt, which is actually kind of cute and I might consider wearing it again. Overall I spent about 2 days putting this costume together, as opposed to the nearly 2 months The Cowboy spent. That's the difference between us. But we looked cute, didn't we?
You know who else looked cute? That's right - The Cuteness herself and her best friend Baby Stinky Pants. They were a chicken and a bunny, respectively.
They also enjoyed Robert's balloon animals, after they changed out of their costumes.
Maddie really liked the hat that I made for her.
She liked it so much that she kept bringing me beers all night.
See? This is why you have kids.
(and actually, I'm only joking about her bringing me beer....she was bringing them to her father......again, just kidding, she was playing with the ice)
My friends and I are not young anymore, so it wasn't a particularly late night, aided by the fact that we got an extra hour. But I still had to get up at the BCOD on Sunday morning to be in Austin for the Race for the Cure. It was not easy to get up and get moving that early - but I am so glad I did. Thanks to my friends and family I raised $225 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and I walked/jogged the 5k with my friend Lesli from work.
It was an amazing experience. Thank you to everyone who supported me!
As you can see I had a very fun and fulfilling weekend. This coming weekend The Cowboy and I are going camping. In the meantime, I've been working on a recipe for you for later this week. And I've been inspired (bullied) to try cro-shit again. Standby for details regarding that train wreck.
Gratuitous Stinky Shot!
Hope you all have a fabulous week, Dahlings.
3 comments:
Wow, what great costumes. I bet Robert could have easily scared the pants off some coulrophobic people. And you make a purty Rodeo clown. Cute!!
Great job with the walk. I'm glad you got up and did it. And way to go to raise all that money.
Can't wait to see your crochet!
You and Robert did a great job on your costumes and makeup. I can't believe Robert actually learned how to make balloon animals.....too cute!
Loved the cuteness & BSP costumes too=)
Great job on the RFTC too.
My wife and i go camping when the weather is not solid rain. But lately in Tex-ass, its been raining a lot. But last weekend and into this week its been picture perfect. So we went camping over the weekend and into this week. Natch, being over the halloween time, we brought some decorations for the RV, lots of candy and some simple costumes and headed down to Lake Whitney SP. Mary Mother of God, we didnt realize that there were so many hallowean hating baptists down there. I know, Waco is just a spitton toss away, and well, we were in the park with some 150 kids that thought we were the antichrist and Beelzebub. So we came back with all but two missing pieces of said candy. Dont kids today get any fun, no wonder they are either social misfits and pregnant by 15, or buying enough deer corn for the whole Noahs raft adventure.
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