here is the 2009 story, written November 1st, 2009:
if yesterday is in any way foreshadowing to a future prom or wedding, i need to start therapy NOW!
we have been talking for nearly a year now that the kiddos were going to be "wizard of oz".. they suggested it and have been talking it up ever since. julia was going to be dorthy, katie was going to be toto, lucy scarecrow, mark tinman, me the lion and anderson oz. we had no costumes made, but the wheels were turning. monday of this last week katie decided she did not want to be toto but rather a ballerina. and the drama began. i really was ok with her not being toto. julia wanted to stick with dorthy and lucy vocalized for the first time she wanted to be cinderella. ok, ok, ok, we can work with this. we have a cinderella costume in house, a ballerina costume in house, ruby reds in house for dorthy, and mom and dad (clint and val) bought anderson a tux. PERFECT! with a little of this and a little of that, halloween was going to be very low maintenance. since the kids were taken care of mark started brainstorming about our costumes (since we were relieved of the tin man and lion) and he came up with the BEST idea. saturday morning we had a few minor things to put together for the kids and then we were going to work on OUR sweet costumes for the rest of the day. lucy tried on her outfit first... perfect. katie put on her ballerina stuff...perfect.. julia was in the midst of finding the ruby red shoes and the melt down took place....THE RUBY REDS WERE MISSING!! i started digging through the closets and i had this sinking feeling that i threw them in the "megan" bag and they were currently warming the shelf at the Regier house. ok, no ruby reds... we were going to have to take a "quick" trip to target to find some. while we were at target julia found an ariel costume that she preferred, and it was the same price as the shoes... mark and i agreed she could have ariel. while julia was enjoying her costume katie had this realization that her costume was "not enough".. but mark and i thought it was best if katie did not get a "new" costume but rather stick with the costume she had already picked out earlier in the week... katie just sobbed!! mark and i decided that we could "spice" up the ballerina with some kind of "addition" maybe a cat ballerina, maybe princess ballerina. katie, through red eyes, and a choked up throat, said, "a, a, a,... butterfly... ballerina" *sob*!
after returning home for our "quick" outing, we put the kids straight down for a nap. (the melt downs had taken their toll). we had 4 hours to create a butterfly, carve a pumpkin, and make our AMAZINGLY cool costumes.. we could make a butterfly out of pipe cleaners and glitter... no pipe cleaners and no glitter in the house. what we did have was moving boxes, tissue paper, and construction paper. amazingly enough mark created the coolest butterfly wings EVER.. no store bought thing could EVER compare! the only down side was the afternoon was quickly slipping away from us and it became very clear that we only had time for the butterfly wings and pumpkin. OUR costumes would have to go unmade. and really that was ok with us b/c in the end we had the cutest, most beautiful, well rested, Ballerina Butterfly, Ariel, Cinderella, and "Gentle-Man" around.
eD eArL even came along for trick-or-treating and introduced us to his daughter, erlene. isn't she lovely?
enjoy the pics. we really did enjoy our day... ;)
~s
p.s. oh, you want to know our really cool costumes... a pig and a bird...get it? swine flu.... ;0 ;0
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