"Kick Buttowski"

So I don't know if you have had your kids watching DISNEY XD but my kids love it.  I don't let them watch much TV but when they do they really like this channel, Phineas and Ferb, Zeke and Luther, and mostly the above, KICK BUTTOWSKI.  He is a self-proclaimed "Suburban Dare-Devil" and he is a little brother of an older brother and it is a funny show.  ANY-Hoo Brandon decided that this is what he wanted to be for Halloween.....my first thought was, where in the world am I going to find that costume?  It's not like Batman or Spiderman.  Well, we had a helmet that was perfect for it in the garage, cleaned it up and added a red stripe with my vinyl.  I went to the fabric store and found a basic "suit" pattern.  Bought red, white, and yellow fleece so he would be warm and sewed up a pretty sweet costume.  It was perfect for Brandon because he is our little dare-devil and he is our little brother to Tyler for sure.  He isn't really really small but he is isn't tall either, he us just kind of comapact and cute at 5 yrs old!  I was proud of my work and Halloween turned out great.  Tyler was Ghost Rider and Ethan was a motocross guy, he wore the size 3 moto gear that we bought for Brandon three years ago.

I hope that these pictures bring a smile to your face because they do mine.  He is such a funny, cute kid.  He is our challenge a lot of the time, but he is fun.  That is Sam our neighbor next to him, they play all day every day and he was a white Ninja.  These pictures are from all weekend long.  Friday night we went to a church party and they did a "trunk or treat".  The next day we went to a party up at some friends house and they did some really fun games.  One of the boys up there had a "whoopie cushion" cosume that Tyler just had to try on.  They played a bunch of fun games but the most popular was wehre they had to search through saw dust for coins.  The dad of this family tossed probably a couple hundred dollars of coins into the pile and the kids took age level turns searching.  Brandon didn't really care about the rules on age level, he searched every turn and we couldn't really get him to quit!  They each found about $13.00 they LOVED that.  The next day being Sunday we just went around our little neighborhood for about an hour (Brian and I have bad memories of being held hostage indoors on Sunday Halloweens so we allowed a little but if trick or treating, so there).  It was a fun filled, busy, tiring weekend!

 We borrowed this from our neighbor, Ki, Sam's older brother who Tyler often plays with. I don't think I would ever spend money on a costume like this, but it was free for us!

 Lame, mom made him wear a coat so you can't see his cute shirt.

Now, here is what I have held out on.  Brian and I went to the church Halloween party dressed as each other.  I wore his motocross grear and he wore....a workout outfit of mine.  Here's the funnier part, we got a friend of ours to do it with him.  Shayla (Perdue) Caldwell is married to Chase, and he is FUNNY.  I approached him about dressing up with Brian and he could be his wife Shayla cause she works out with me somethimes.  I made sure they had the capris and the cute workout shirts and sweatshirts.  They were nervous but they did it.  We even found wigs for them.  I did not get a picture of Shayla and I but she was a fireman.  I did however get a picture of the two crossdressers.  Shayla's dad is the stake president here in Redmond and so our stake president walked by us at the party and was somewhat disgusted (he knew we were going to do it, it was funny)  We joked with him later this weekend at stake confrence about whether or not he was going to be addressing crossdressing or not.  It was pretty funny.