In order to prepare for the pumpkin carving, I first had to locate our pumpkin carving kits. I was just praying that the carving kits weren't with our silverware (because we all know that the carving kits would never be located if they were). Oddly enough, it took me all of 30 seconds to find the kits. Shows where my priorities are. Silverware? Bah, who needs that? Pumpkin carving kits? Gotta have those!
For my pumpkin, I chose to pay tribute to one of the most influential political figures of our time. President Obama? Nope. President George W. Bush? Nope. Hilary Clinton? Nope. Sarah Palin? You betcha! I would like to make the caveat that I am not that political or try to spout my views on others, but let's just say I love me some Sarah Palin. I think she is amazing and could you imagine the endless amounts of material she would provide Saturday Night Live if she were President of the United States of America? Plus, being up here in Montana it is kind of hard not to jump on the Tea Party Express a little bit. We do love our guns, property rights and privacy up here. Anywho, here is my pumpkin tribute to Ms. Palin:
Chad also chose to pay tribute to another famous figure. Here are some hints. He is American singer/songwriter who is responsible for hits such as "All Night Long", "Hello", "Dancing On the Ceiling" and one of my all time personal favorites, "Say You Say Me"- this song brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it because one of my ballet teachers growing up loved to play this song when we were at the barre. But I digress as I have a tendency to do. Chad created an amazing Lionel Richie pumpkin. Complete with mustache and afro. It was glorious.
Not only was this our first Halloween up here in Lewistown, it was also Landen Man's first Halloween. Seeing that the little guy can't hold his head up yet or will even remember what he was dressed as, I took the easy street and just made him a costume to match costumes Chad and I already had. Landen got to be a turtle. Not just any turtle. Landen was the cutest turtle ever. Some background on why Landen was a turtle. Chad and I went to a costume party dressed as ninja turtles. The theme for the party we went to was to come dressed as your favorite toy from the 80's. Seeing that He-Man and She-Ra costumes would require Chad and I to wear a small amount of clothing and going as Popples would require way too much clothing and be way hot, we quickly nixed those ideas and came up with the ninja turtle idea. Plus, who doesn't like ninjas? Especially, ninja turtles? I made the turtle shells and cut out the colored strips of fabrics that would be our masks and be wrapped around our arms and legs. We wore green clothes. The turtle costumes were almost complete. Now we just needed our weapons. I put Chad on weapon duty which ended up being really funny. He transformed a Swiffer handle into a bo staff. Well, I use the term "transformed" very loosely here. The weapon was just a Swiffer handle and we just told people it was a weapon. He did make a nice pair of sai out of cardboard and foil though. The sai didn't stand up that well to the hazards of the party though. A drink was spilled on the sai deeming them useless as weapons and they were then discarded in the trash.
So for this Halloween we are just turtles without any special crime fighting powers since Landen can't wield a Swiffer stick yet (he's only 5 weeks for goodness sake) and the sai are long gone. Just plain ol' turtles. Landen makes a really cute little turtle though, so he gives our turtle family instant street cred. Here are some pics of Landen and Chad in their turtle shells.
That is one proud papa turtle.
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