KC the Fisherman

For Halloween KC was sick, but we managed to make it to the IL's (in-laws) church Fall Festival and to Gigis house. KC was a fisherman this year and I had fun putting his costume together. Most everything came right off ebay for next to nothing, and the most expensive thing I could only find at Wal-Mart (lord help me) & that was the rubber boots at $17.00 freakin dollars! The grown mens boots were only $2.00 more, whats up with that? But I bought them, because the ones off ebay wouldve cost about the same with shipping. The little fishing pole is a game, and it was about $13.00, the vest was brand new and it cost less than $7.00 including shipping. I also found the patches, and the decal sticker from ebay. The lures all came again, from Wal-Mart and I removed all the hooks. The fishing hat he wore was my Dads,and I remember my Dad wearing this hat many times while fishing it didnt matter weather we were out in the gulf or on a river, that was his fishing hat. What is the funny thing is that KC would not keep a hat on his head to save my life before Halloween night; I tried a few times before Halloween putting the hat on him and he would take it off & throw it down, & Hubby tries constantly to put his hat on him to no avail, but he wore the hat with his costume then entire time and wouldnt take it off. Hes even been wearing it around the house! It makes me smile to remember the images in my head of my Dad wearing that hat, & to now see the little man in my life wearing it.

We started our morning off with some Halloween cinnamon rolls with orange icing & some black sprinkles, Thank you Pillsbury! KAS wasnt with us Halloween weekend & KC wasnt feeling to hot so I finished carving the pumpkin because Dr. appointments & x-rays threw the whole week off. Before dark we went to the Fall Festival to see Meme & Papa and had hot dogs, boiled p-nuts, and chips & we also let KC trick or treat through some of the games. Then we went to Gigis to see Gigi, Nan & Pop, and we ate Halloween brownies that Gigi made. By the end of the night he was wore out but he didnt want to take off his boots, he wore them all the way home until he passed out in his seat. We never made it to the Halloween Party since he wasnt feeling good, so maybe next year Mr. & Mrs. Pacman will make an appearance.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween, now....on to the good stuff!


Had to get his pictures made in his Fisherman costume!

Our breakfast

My little fisherman






Us at the end of the night minus KAS

KAS finally getting her Halloween bag, & KC trying to steal her candy already!

Pumpkin carving

Better late than never! My camera broke :-( Ive had a Sony Cybershot 7.2mp 12x digital camera forever, it was a Christmas gift from Hubby all the way back in 2003. It has been through alot, banged on, dropped, snowed on, thrown around, Im really surprised it held up as long as it did. But sadly all good things come to an end and my sweet little, high end electronic, has DIED! So all the pictures from this point are the product of a $100 jewel that is KAS's. Hopefully Santa will bring me a new one this year, if not you can bet your butt that there wont be any presents left under my tree for him!

Here are a few photos from the so called pumpkin patch, its actually the local corner produce stand right down the road from our house but they had pumpkins so it worked. KC has been really sick with a sinus infection so we pretty much stayed cooped up in the house the week of Halloween. I decorated more this year outside than I have before, it was fun and I got a few new things inside. Mom got me a Jim Shore Mickey Mouse pumpkin candle holder and she also gave me a Thanksgiving dinner figurine with all the Disney characters from Lenox. I rode around with the box in my car for a week and she kept saying you need to take this inside before something happens to it. I finally took it out and sure enough the thing some how fell out of the box & broke into a million pieces. Thats pretty much the way things have been going here lately so, ehh no biggie. I called Lenox to try & replace it because there was no way on this green earth that I was telling her what had happened to it, & not have that baby sitting on the shelf come turkey day. After talking to the nice sales rep and giving her my digits, they gladly billed me $85.47, HALF of the value of the brand new one and sent it to me pronto. So I got a gift, that I paid almost $100 for. Happy Halloween to me!


KC not wanting to stand still long enough for me to take a picture

maybe this one mom

cheese!

not to sure about the icky stuff

Get one of these for getting the guts out!

front porch

you think he got the clue?

my new addition

last but not least

Halloween timeline

Since Halloween is so close, and Im not quite done with this years costume I thought Id post some previous Halloween costumes & photos. I love this time of year like most people, but being in Florida theres not a whole lot of change except you can watch football, strawberry season, and pumpkins - which remind you how close Christmas really is. I have lots of Halloween decor that Ive collected over the years, but since KC came along Ive started decorating more outside. KCs dressed up as a monkey for his first Halloween, and KAS was Hermione from Harry Potter that year. Last year, KC was Nacho Libre which his Dad picked on a whim 2 weeks before Halloween. Thanks to ebay, a few websites, and huge local Halloween store I pulled it off. KAS was Allison Vernon-Williams which was the love of Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker from the movie Cry-Baby. The girl loooooves Johnny Depp! She had the whole outfit, & a wig that was hilarious. This year KC will be a Fisherman, because once again thats wat Dad picked out. Inspired by Dads favorite music idol, Les Claypools song "John the Fisherman". Thankfully this has been alot easier than Nacho was. I have no idea what KAS is going to be, I have asked her several times but no answer yet.

Hubby & I have a costume party to attend after trick or treating & its a toss up between Mr. & Mrs. Pacman, or Fat Albert & ummm Mrs. Pacman. Im gonna be Mrs. Pacman by myself if I have to, because thats going to be easy & cheap to make.


Hubby, KAS "Hermione", & KC "Our lil Monkey" 2007


My Nan & Pop with KC "A sleeping Monkey" 2007


my Mom, Gigi, Me, & KC "My Monkey" 2007


KC & KAS, "Nacho & Allison" 2008


KAS as "Allison Vernon-Wlliams" 2008


KC as "Nacho Libre" 2008