Happy Halloween

The Fall Festival at our church this year was so much fun!

I spent the week putting together Emolyn's Little Mermaid costume,

so I could hardly wait for them to arrive! 

And I must say, she made quite a splash! (I know, I had to say it)

I found the mermaid tail at Savers and then reconstructed it to fit Emolyn. 

And then after many attempts, I finally gave up and bought a girl's bra at JC Penney Outlet

and transformed it into Ariel's "crab bra". (as Emolyn calls it)

When I was done, I sprayed it with fabric adhesive and gave it a generous dusting of glitter.

I am more than pleased with how it turned out. And so was Emolyn!

 Introducing ~ The Little Mermaid family!

I made 75 miniature cupcakes for the Cupcake Walk that Randy & I love doing for the kids.

And they were gone pretty fast!

The kids loved walk 'n rock 'n to Phil Collin's Tarzan CD!

Point the camera in Emolyn's direction ~ when she's in her element ~ and the girl shines!

This innocent bystander got caught in the middle of Emolyn's theatrics, 

or maybe he was just a prop for her spontaneous antics.

But he sure was a good little sport... and as cute as can be!

 Ariel ~ King Triton ~ Ursula ~ Sebastian 

Our son Tyler loves Clint Eastwood movies and recently watched all his Spaghetti Westerns.

So this year he dressed up as "The Man with No Name" for Halloween.

I love that my adult kids still love pretending and playing dress-up. 

And Halloween gives them (and us) permission to do just that!