Thursday, November 5, 2009

Some Of Us Didn't Care That It Was the Day After Halloween

Halloween didn't end for us on October 31st--no siree. We had a family party to attend the next day at Mom's and some of us were very excited to dress up. Some people spent more time than others on their costumes. Rebecca had definitely done a very elaborate sewing job to transform herself and her husband into Cinderella and Prince Charming.


What a handsome prince! I really like the clock in the background--even though it's not quite yet striking the magical hour of midnight.


Brooke had to make friends with the stuffed turkey before she could strike her pose as the fairy godmother.


Hey, I thought the story went that Cinderella lost her beautiful slipper--not the fairy godmother...


In sticking with the family's fairy tale theme, Caroline was the cutest pumpkin ever.


An adorable royal family!


Once at Mom and Dad's house, we found other costumed family members. Rachel was the cutest, little green witch and Wes was the best-looking fireman ever.


Nani was very punny as Smartie pants with Smarties candy packages taped all over her pants. She kept sharing her candies with all the little kids until by the end of the night she had none on her pants and the kids were walking out with handfuls of Smarties.


Dad was a good sport to dress up in camo costume despite his slinged arm with Mom nearby as his able Indian nurse ready to care for all his needs.


Glen and I were rednecks.


Here are the rednecks with my parents enjoying the joke on them--as "the trash we took out" the day before. (See previous blog post to get that joke and all the other redneck jokes if you happened to have missed them.)


This is the royal family posing together--minus the sleeping pumpkin.


Austin and Andy came as hunters and Preston was a nerd.


But don't be fooled by that cute face in the previous picture. Preston has a darker side to him... This photo was posted on the refrigerator for all to see Preston's real alter-ego personality.


The following are some photos taken of everyone during the evening.















And finally at the very end of the party, our little pumpkin Caroline finally woke up.


Fun party, Dad and Mom! We really missed sick Maggie and Amanda who stayed home to take care of her. Thanks to everyone who dressed up and didn't care that it was the day after Halloween! All you party poopers--there's always next year to redeem yourselves.

4 comments:

Rebecca said...

So, I never even noticed when we were up there that you had switched out the family picture. It took the fairy godmother picture for me to see the change!

jlthomas said...

Good eye Rebecca! I didn't notice the change at all.

I love how you guys are all dressed up the day after Halloween but you had already changed out your holiday decorations. Your quick Kim!

Kim said...

Now look who has the good eye, Laurie! Yes, you might call me crazy, but I took down the Halloween decorations and put up the Thanksgiving decorations on Halloween night. It gave me something to do between answering the trick-or-treaters' doorbell rings and Glen was around to carry the boxes up and down the stairs for me.

sarah said...

UGH! I hate it when you change the holiday decorations on the day of the holiday. I'm still trying to forgive you for taking down the Christmas decorations the day of Christmas a few years ago.

Everyone was darling!