Halloween 2012-The most original title ever.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and it also happens to be Dale and Ellie's birthday so the house is always hopping on October 31st.  This year I am back at work so I bought (gasp, this was really hard for me for some reason) Ethan and Jack's Spiderman costumes.  Although if you can make a homemade Spiderman you are one bad ass Momma!  Regan was going to be a pumpkin and I had plans of making one of those super cute orange tutus that are floating around Pinterest.  However a few weeks ago she did a 180 and wanted demanded to be a ballerina AND she wanted to wear stuff we already had...super bonus.  Regan is the winner.  Ellie wanted to be Barbie originally, until I brought up being a zombie and she was begging to be a "walker".  I watched a lot of YouTube stuff on The Walking Dead make-up, which was pretty awesome and I probably would have watched them all anyways because I'm slightly obsessed with the show.  The fake blood was super fun and I did her make-up in about 10 minutes.  We practiced doing it last week which really helped and if you are going to do makeup I highly suggest doing a practice run.  Oh and it was fun to boot.  I got her dress at Goodwill so that we could tear it up, dirty it up and blood it up and then toss it.

I think I'm going to start taking blog pictures with my phone from now on so excuse the lack of quality.  They go straight to my Picasa Web Album and at this point I'm too lazy to put that memory stick into my computer at home, when I'm there.  And I miss you guys, I miss writing and that web connection to the rest of the world, so from here on out its phone quality okay?  So take a look at my cutie pies.  Oh my how I love them!

This was their stash.

Spiderman plays with Barbie.  Love it.

Jack flexing his muscles.  He does it to the front and not to the sides!

I didn't even have to tell her to put her feet that way!

Oh my how I love that this is what they did when I told them to pose together.

Cheese for Mommy!  Ethan's muscles are adorable.

Mom lets go the candy is out there!

Ellie post blood.  Nevermind the mess in the back.  Yes that is a beer can, I'm pretty sure  you need one before and at least one after taking 4 kids trick or treating.

I used tattoos, fake blood and make-up.

This head wound was my favorite.

We did some claw marks on her back too.

Ellie was the only one that went through the haunted house in our neighborhood.  It was pretty scary.  She got really scared by the zombie at the end, but he was a cool teenager and said "oh we're bro's lets go eat them together!" and she laughed and told him how great his makeup was.  Oh my do I love her and how brave she is, my little Halloween baby!

Walking Dead Girl

I would love to tell you that my blog break was spent in some exotic location with an umbrella drink and a towel boy but that simply isn't the case.  I've been doing 3 things:  applying for jobs, having a Walking Dead marathon and cleaning up a ridiculous amount of kid messes.

Applying for jobs?  I've been a stay at home mom for 2 years and I've made the decision to go back to work.  It hasn't been an easy one.  I've wrestled with what I should do.  We make enough money to support ourselves.  Some months it's tighter but most of the time there is a little left over.  What we don't have is enough to pay off both of our student loans and put away for a house.  I want to buy a house within two years and I'm ready to do what it takes to get there.  So if you know of a great job in the Tulsa area let me know.  I have a Bachelor's degree I'd like to put to use.

I'm a tad obsessed with The Walking Dead.  I've managed to get Dale hooked as well with this marathon.  Ellie has begged and begged me to let her watch it, to which I've replied "you've lost your mind!" but I agreed to let her watch some of the extra stuff showing how they create the zombies make up and clothes.  She loved seeing how they created them.  I firmly believe she is going to be some sort of make-up artist/costume designer.  She loves scary, creepy things and she can't wait to be old enough to see all of the "spooky" stuff.  For now Gremlins (her favorite movie) and The Adams Family is going to have to suffice.  Ethan on the other hand was scared of Snow White (he still doesn't like it) and Ellie especially liked it because it scared him.  Dale bought me my first comic book, The Walking Dead issue 100 so that I can be an official nerd.  I have to admit that it was pretty cool (and as I typed that I shook my head at the intense nerdiness).

Ridiculous amount of kid messes.  Let me start by saying that my children are engineering genius's and have mastered or dismantled nearly every child lock at least once.  Jack broke not only the stove lock but the refrigerator as well.  The little two have also discovered that if they squeeze hard enough they can break the spinning door lock to the pantry.  Eggs, cucumbers, paint pens just a few of the things I have cleaned up.  Wednesday I swear it was one mess after another and Jack was making them faster than I could clean them up.  Thankfully my husband brought home new locks (and dinner) and we're back in business.

Hopefully I'll be back to some more normal posting next week.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, we're scheduled to do nothing!!!