::fingers crossed::

Our sweet friend Rachel offered to babysit for us tonight so Kris and I could go out. Of course, as usual he's on call! So I need everybody to cross their fingers and wish really hard that no kids will get hit in the mouth, fall on their mouth, catch a baseball with their mouth, get hit with brass knuckles or fall on their mouth from skates or bikes.
We're going to see the Star Trek movie, finally. And I think the below person DEFINITELY deserves to see the movie uninterrupted.  

(I'm the tallest one)

I worked really hard on that halloween costume.  I got the nose putty for our ears from Taylor Maid in the University Mall.  You can't see it, but I also embroidered a little star trek insignia on cross stitch fabric and sewed it onto my sweatshirt.  The eyebrows included a liberal use of mom's make up. Sorry mom!

Anyway, that kind of dedication is worth something, right?

Kris hadn't seen any of the old Star Trek movies (or didn't remember them).  In fact, he was a star trek scoffer.  So me, having been a serious fan in my tween years, but later growing out of it, figured it was something we would never share, and I was ok with that.  

But then he said we should watch all the old movies before we went to see the new one.  And we did.  Kris even borrowed a projector while Kelly was here and we watched three of the movies on the big screen (and by that I mean a big blue bedsheet hanging on the wall).  It was awesome.  And both Kelly and Kris have been enlightened.  So now at least they're not so rude about Star Trek.  That's progress.

Anyway, wish us luck that we get to see the whole thing.  I'm sure we'll need it!

A Halloween retrospective for Halloween night

I hope everyone is having a great Halloween. We just got Max tucked into bed, finally and I'll give a report on how our evening went tomorrow. For now I just want to revel in past halloweeny memories. I don't have any past pictures of Kris's family on Halloween scanned right now, so this is a little limited. I'll do better next year for sure.
To start with:
Max's first Halloween in 2004. He was a bear and so adorable and happy. No complaining about the costume or the nose and whiskers (it helped that the costume was his PJs).
Max's second Halloween. He did NOT want to wear his costume and had no problem letting us know.
This picture doesn't really count because we took in at the very beginning of October. For Max's third Halloween Kathy came out and help me (like I said before, helped me means did it for me) make an awesome cape for Max. He wore it the day we finished it and never again. You would've thought we were trying to cut his fingers off or something when we tried to make him wear it on Halloween. It was a bust. Oh well.

This year.....you'll just have to wait and see how it went!

And now for a step back in time:

I'm not sure what year this was--maybe 1991. Anyway, I was so proud of this costume, and I felt so cool. I was a Vulcan from Star Trek. I went to the "beauty supply" shop in the mall and bought ear putty (or was it called nose putty?) and made pointy ears for myself and Char. I covered up my real eyebrows with concealer and powder and drew new angled ones on. And to top the whole outfit off I cross stiched a Star Trek emblem and sewed that onto my sweat shirt. Which sweat shirt I later wore regularly to middle school.
That was a cool halloween. Oh yeah, and please note the moon boots.
See, I'm usually something boring for Halloween, like here I'm a hippie. That doesn't take much. Charlotte on the other hand is always something extreme and/or cool. Here she's a crazy dragon with wings she made herself. Murphy is wearing a cape that we were dressing up in since I was tiny. How many different Halloweens has that cape seen? It was reversible, which made it extra cool.
This looks to me like 1990. I think Cammon was a pirate for about 90% of the Halloweens growing up. It's just what he was. And please notice that the shirt he's wearing in this picture is the same shirt he was wearing in 1991. It's another old dress up staple that we used all the time. What a great shirt. I wonder where it came from? Here again Charlotte is looking awesome as a crazy indian in loin cloth and light blue sweats. Mom always made us wear sweats under or with our costumes, which I finally understand now being a parent. I was a gypsy or something this time. I usually don't care what I am for Halloween as long as I'm pretty. Usually it doesn't work out and I end up less pretty than I like, but this year I think I pulled off pretty.

In conclusion, Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I think a lot of that is thanks to my mom and dad who made it really fun--with the ghost on the front porch with the crazy voice and all the fun decorations and everything--I hope we can keep up the tradition in our house and make Halloweens as fun and magical for our kids as they were for the Randle kids.
Can't wait to hear about how your night went!