This is Sam posting. I made a short video. Lindsay helped. In fact, Lindsay's help made it lots better than it would have been. Don't worry--it's short.
3 years ago
Monday, November 12, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Halloween is for the birds
I have a love/hate relationship with Halloween. I hate all the extra chaos it always seems to bring to our lives, but I love how much my kids love it and get so excited about the holiday and everything it entails. In fact, they get so excited about it that what they are going to be for Halloween is a topic of conversation we enjoy year round.
About 6 months ago the kids (mostly the boys) decided that this year they wanted to all be birds for Halloween. It sounded interesting at the time when I agreed to do whatever I could to make their Halloween dreams come true, but as October edged closer and closer I began to wonder what I had gotten us into. Birds don't sound that difficult to pull off until you get very specific birds requests including a peregrine falcon, great horned owl and a flamingo. Google and Pinterest were zero help with falcon ideas (apparently not a popular costume this year) and they were only mildly helpful with the other two. With little inspiration and boys very interested in accurate costumes I felt a little over my head. Enter: "Save-the-day-Sam" to figure things out.
I must admit I was a little skeptical that Sam would be able to do any better in designing something, but boy was I wrong. I'd like to say that I was the one that pulled off the impossible, but in reality Sam did most of the boy's costumes all by himself. One morning during the costume making craziness I woke up and to my utter amazement Sam had made a pair of pants for each of the boys. Seriously---I have no idea how someone with almost no experience with a sewing machine can whip out two pair of pants, but he did. Ruby's costume was much more my speed and I have no problem taking complete credit for my little flamingo. Speaking of my little flamingo---here are an excessive number of pictures of her. Narrowing down the options to just these was hard enough.
About 6 months ago the kids (mostly the boys) decided that this year they wanted to all be birds for Halloween. It sounded interesting at the time when I agreed to do whatever I could to make their Halloween dreams come true, but as October edged closer and closer I began to wonder what I had gotten us into. Birds don't sound that difficult to pull off until you get very specific birds requests including a peregrine falcon, great horned owl and a flamingo. Google and Pinterest were zero help with falcon ideas (apparently not a popular costume this year) and they were only mildly helpful with the other two. With little inspiration and boys very interested in accurate costumes I felt a little over my head. Enter: "Save-the-day-Sam" to figure things out.
I must admit I was a little skeptical that Sam would be able to do any better in designing something, but boy was I wrong. I'd like to say that I was the one that pulled off the impossible, but in reality Sam did most of the boy's costumes all by himself. One morning during the costume making craziness I woke up and to my utter amazement Sam had made a pair of pants for each of the boys. Seriously---I have no idea how someone with almost no experience with a sewing machine can whip out two pair of pants, but he did. Ruby's costume was much more my speed and I have no problem taking complete credit for my little flamingo. Speaking of my little flamingo---here are an excessive number of pictures of her. Narrowing down the options to just these was hard enough.
My adorable great horned owl. Don't be fooled by their quiet nature, Max will eagerly remind you that owls are actually quite vicious creatures---the great horned topping that vicious list.
I don't know, Max--it's hard to be too scary when you are this cute.
My fearless falcon. Reed was really the driving force behind the whole bird thing. He and Max have been crazy about the "super birds" for a while, so it was no surprise that he had his heart set on a being a peregrine falcon, the fastest bird of them all (fastest animal of all, in fact). Reed could tell you how fast, but I can't.
This was not my original vision for the falcon costume, but I trusted Sam and Reed and am glad that I did. I think he looks pretty great.
The mask was all Reed.
The whole aviary crew. They all loved their costumes and while they may not have been perfect, they all acted like they were. As we were racing to finish the last few details before our ward's trunk or treat Max said, "Homemade costumes are great because you can get exactly what you want." I'm glad they all felt like they got exactly what they wanted.
Oh yeah...and Sam must have been going for "Dad of the Year" or something because he also gave into the kids requests to make themed Halloween bags...Whhhaaat????
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