October Haps: 2011 Halloween Costumes

This year I decided to let the kids choose what they wanted to be for Halloween. I admit that in the previous years I've done a lot of convincing and persuading on what the boys end up being for Halloween. This year I decided to loosen up and let them choose without any pushing from me. They're getting older and a lot of ideas that I thought would be cool, weren't cool in their eyes. At first I wasn't sure if me giving them full control was a good idea. Nic changed his mind every day! At first all his choices were scary things: zombie, and a mummy. Then he started choosing all these video game characters from Street Fighter. Siope said he wanted to be Sponge Bob. I thought that would be interesting and immediately started thinking about how we could make his square pants... but then he changed his mind. Mote was pretty set on what he wanted to be... a JABBAWOCKEE. I thought it was a little too simple and boring, but he had his mind made up and was sticking to it. Ti loved the idea. He said it would be easy... ha! He should know me better... I don't think I ever make things easy. We got so frustrated with the other 2, that I gave them a deadline and told them they had to choose a final character. Ti mentioned that it would be cool if they were all Jabbawockeez, and they agreed. I didn't start on their costumes until the week before Halloween Eeeeeep! I'm not sure who came up with the concept cause I'm almost sure I chose the colors, but Ti said he did... so I'll say we both did :) Since Jabbawockeez perform here in Vegas, we decided it would be cool to add some of our roots to the costumes. We put our Utah touch on it and came up with this...

I ordered the Utah Jazz snap backs, then based the t-shirts off of those colors.

The final product

We added the skeleton gloves to spook it out for Halloween

The back of their shirts said "trick or treat"

I got done with them right before we went to Utah... just in the nick of time.

I follow the JABBAWOCKEEZ on twitter and right before I went to bed Halloween night, I was checking my twitter line. I noticed that they were running a costume contest and were selecting a winner off of pictures that people were submitting to them. I uploaded one of the boys and hoped that I wasn't too late to enter the contest. The next day before I went to work I got a reply from one of the members saying that he chose the boys as one of the winners!

How cool is that?!! Pretty freak'n cool if you ask me! The boys were so excited!! and all my hard work paid off! ha!