A Night at the Zoo

Between nursing and napping it's hard to get out of the house sometimes. Doug makes it a lot easier and will watch Ben while I run errands or do fun things (hurray for an awesome husband!). Similarly, we don't go out as a family nearly as often as we used to so that Ben can fall asleep for the night in his own bed. Makes sense, right? So then you can understand why I got so excited for the Halloween ward party! Here was an activity that was all planned out for me, on a Friday night, and that ended at a decent time.

Sooo want to see pictures of some random zoo keepers and their pet tiger? 

Not so thrilled to be a tiger I guess.

Don't worry Ben, we're doing this for your own good.

It was surprisingly easy to decorate our trunk as a zoo.. seeing as most of Ben's toys are animals. Plus I only spent $5!  - on the candy and the hanging leaves. The costumes were all free too (shocker... wait, you weren't thinking, "where did she get that vintage camo shirt?"?). Speaking of, does anyone want a 3 mos tiger costume?

I'm looking back over the pictures and the trunk looked so much better in real life. Right? .... And some kids definitely reached for the toys - we got our candy from the dollar store so I don't blame them.

Happy Halloween!!

Live from the Vandys!

The Progressive Jingle was stuck in everybody's heads on Halloween - well, actually, the 29th (that's when the parties were, and since we didn't get any trick-or-treaters....); because we were dressed like this:

We didn't think to take pictures of each other to better document our awesome costumes. Awesome and cheap costumes! I bought a white apron for $4, the ribbon was inexpensive, and the phone was $2.50 at a thrift store. The rest is stuff we already had or I printed and taped to our costumes.

On our way to the ward trunk or treat we considered the possibility that no other adults would be dressed up! We  were happy to discover that our costumes could easily be transformed into somewhat normal clothing. Fortunately, most adults dressed up, so it was all okay.

That night our friends, the Johnsons, hosted a Halloween party, which was totally awesome. We (six couples) went out for dinner at Chili's all dressed up! Another table was also dressed up and they looked relieved when we showed up as they were no longer alone in publicly celebrating Halloween 2 days early. Needless to say we got a lot of stares and even requests for insurance quotes!

It was a good thing we celebrated on the 29th, because the 31st ended up being a disappointment. Oh well, the more candy for me!!!