Halloween
For Halloween this year I had been planning Graham's costume for what seemed like months. Because of his darling physique, we decided he would be a perfect Nacho Libre. It turned out to be the perfect costume choice and it was a hit amongst most Mormon 30 somethings (I guess Nacho Libre was kindof a Utah thing? Similar to Napoleon Dynamite. Nobody back east really knew who he was, but we did, and our ward did, and that's what counts.)
I quickly whipped together his costume, and it was super easy. Cape, dyed tights, red socks with embroidery floss laces, and red bloomers. Complete with a Crayola moustache that he threw a huge fit about.
We went to our first ward Halloween party- we've never been huge ward partiers, but I was so glad we went! It was fun to interact with our ward and the fun people in it. We had a huge chili cookoff and a kids parade. Graham just wanted to roam around with the big kids, so we ended up chasing him most of the night.
We took Luke and Graham to Home Depot to visit Steffani at work. Luke mostly cried because he wanted his mom, but Graham was enamored with all of the fun things to look at there!
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| No Nach Libre is complete without his Softie in tow. |
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| Way too into the batteries to look at the camera. |
| The actual night of Halloween was freezing and windy, so we opted to stay at home. Graham doesn't understand trick-or-treating yet anyway, so we didn't want to torture ourselves. We bought Dum-Dum suckers to hand out and Graham was in heaven, consuming at least 4 of them. We also didn't bother putting his moustache and eyebrows on a second time since he was only going to be awake for about an hour of trick or treaters. *Cool thing about our "township"- in an effort to keep trick-or-treating under control and for kids, our township only allows trick or treating on Halloween night (other townships do it the week before!) from 5:30-7:30. It was so nice to be done early and not have to worry about people coming to our door at all hours of the night! And we probably didn't get anyone above the age of 12. Welcome change for this Halloween Scrooge.  |
| He was not too excited about taking pictures |
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| Wearing a cape, or bib, is hard work! |
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| Inside a man, you find his nucleus |
I am sad that I didn't ever get a great picture of Graham in his costume- maybe when it warms up outside I'll throw him back in his costume (assuming it still fits) and try my luck again. He does love being shirtless...
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| "Syuckahs" complete this boy. |
