Saturday, November 5, 2011

Ghosts of Halloweens Past

So, I was blindsided earlier this week while cropping/fixing the pics we took for Halloween this year. It turns out, I have almost every pic I’ve taken already loaded into a Picasa Album. I got lost for hours looking through all the memories from before the quads were born, through their NICU stint, the infant years, and now almost graduating their toddler phase.

So, the trip down memory lane got my mind thinking about this post I’m about to present to you all.

Billy and I have ALWAYS loved Halloween and we would dress up creatively for the holiday every chance we had before kids came into the picture.  Now, I’m all about obsessing thinking about new costume ideas for the kids in the future (even if Halloween was only a few days ago). I’ll admit……..it IS an illness.

But I thought it’d be fun to showcase our Halloween attire just so everybody can see where we started.

First off, I present this year’s costumes…….Oompa Loompas from the 1971 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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These are my personal favorites and were easy to make. Plus, the kids LOVED them and still go around singing the Oompa Loompa song and break into the Oompa Loompa dance randomly throughout the day.

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PIUS AND LAINE

 

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PIUS…..WHAT A GOOBER

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……A REALLY BIG GOOBER

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PI-PI AND DADDY FACING OFF

 

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FO-FO, LAINE, PIUS, DANNA……IN A VERY GREEN BATH

……AND NOW, FOR THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWEENS PAST…..

2010 - “Four-of-a-Kind”

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2009 – 3 Elmer Fudd hunters with Danna as their bunny rabbit

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2008 – The Wizard of Oz

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DANNA AS DOROTHY

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PIUS AS THE LION

 

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LAINE AS THE TINMAN

 

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2007 – ALL 4 IN A JACK-O-LANTERN

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They were SO much easier to contain back then! But I really don’t miss those days.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

3 comments:

jag said...

Oh my gosh! Great post! LOVE all the costumes - ALL of them! You are so dern creative!

P.S. Also have next year's costumes planned. Now to brainwash them into thinking it's what THEY want to be...

Anonymous said...

I loved the picture of the kids trick or treating...with Danna eyeing the pot of flowers on someone's front porch! ha! She is so funny.
Great post!

Anonymous said...

Great Quad-minds must think alike. The Kimball quads had the same idea this year. http://thekimballherd.blogspot.com/