Happy Halloween

We're in the spirit here with fun lights and good Halloween tunes. We got this holiday projector years ago for Christmas, but it has ghosts, bats, and a witch filter as well. They didn't come out as well in the video as I would have liked.

Here is DG's Halloween playlist that is booming out of a wireless outdoor speaker for the neighborhood kids.

Monster Mash
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
Twilight Zone (Movie Theme)
Love Potion No. 9
Psycho: Suite For Strings
I Put A Spell On You - Screamin Jay Hawkins
In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
Batman/Robin Hood - Orlando Pops Orchestra
Clap For The Wolfman - The Guess Who
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Halloween Scary Sounds Scene 1 and 4

Have a safe and fun night.

Pretty in Teal

Saturday night, we lured Cynthia and Jeff out to the real 80's Prom Halloween Party. Having already had our practice night, it was like so totally easy to get ready. We updated DG's costume with my Maloney Tennis letter jacket and my costume with my original wine glass favor from my senior prom. You know, back in the good old days when high schools discouraged alcohol use by giving out favors that were made to hold alcohol.


Cynthia and I are two peas in a pod when it comes to our pack rat ways and saving "treasured" outfits. Mine are in the garage however, whereas hers remain in the closet. In her bedroom! I don't know about you, but the bedroom closet is valuable real estate, especially when you have a husband that requires a closet in the bedroom as well. What, I don't get both closets? I thought marriage meant I get whatever I want? All of her vintage outfits are at the ready whenever she needs them. So it was easy access to this dress that she wore to her prom, with her original purse, fashion jewelry, and bows on the shoes. The full potential and beauty of this dress lies in it's completely ballooning bustled back with a slit up the middle. Elegant and Elvira all in one package.


With some help from my blue eyeshadow, a curling iron, and the same blush that she wore to prom, she completed her look. What is her final look you ask? Pure Sheena Easton. I will spare Cynthia any further upset by NOT posting the video of Jeff and her dancing to Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But it's quite priceless.


The party was a blast and it was fun to see people dressing up. The hostess had her hair crimped (awesome). And let's just say, I wasn't the only teal dress there. Though I may have been the only one rocking the teal eye liner.


For further embarrassment on myself, here are the actual pictures of the four proms that I went to. Yes, four. The first one was my Junior Prom. From the program:

Date: May 13, 1988
Location: Aqua Turf
Theme: With you all the Way - New Edition
I asked Jim Smith, a fellow band geek to go with me. Love the orchid wrist corsage. Is that a plant or a creeping ivy? We traveled in style in his father's old subaru. I also got my first kiss and had my first boy/girl sleepover that night.

The next month, I was invited to the Senior Prom as well. My date had a girlfriend, but her parents would not allow her to go to prom, so I was the stand-in date. God forbid I wear the same dress, so I borrowed this lovely lavender number from a friend at church.

Date: June 9, 1988
Location: Aqua Turf
Theme: This is the Time - Billy Joel
Art Hass came with his friend Mark to pick us up in a fun old time car. I came home on time however because I had finals the next day.

Skip to senior year and I asked my friend Todd from church camp to my prom and in return, he asked me to his which came first. Who says you won't wear the same prom dress ever again? Break out the teal. Unfortunately this night didn't go so well. A hotel room, a bathtub full of beer, and one 17 year old girl who didn't have a car to drive the hour home.


Since he was a gentlemen, Todd did not stand me up for my prom, though he probably should have. In the blossoming of my social etiquette skills, I learned that when things are uncomfortable, you never talk about them ever again. So I proceeded not to talk to him all night long. Classy. But this time, classy in maroon and velvet. I decided not to pay for pictures this night as I was probably hoping to forget that it ever happened.

Date: June 3, 1989
Location: Aqua Turf
Theme: Hold Onto the Nights - Richard Marx


I was never a big fan of the 80's, but it is definitely fun to go back in time and mock the couture.

Giving Back to Children's Hospital

DG's friend Steph is a graduate of Indiana University and often organizes charitable events for the alumni located here in Colorado. Her lastest benefit was an afternoon at Children's Hospital in Denver, creating a Halloween Fun Fest for the kids. We headed out to help her for a short few hours last Sunday.

The idea was to create a fun environment full of ghoulish activities for all the kids and their families to attend, to help them forget, for just a minute that they are in a hospital. She did such an amazing job and I think that it is just so special of her to do this. It took place in the lobby with fun games including, Mummy Bowling, Ring Toss on Witches Hats, Eye Ball Toss, Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin, Face Painting, Guess how much candy is in the candy jar, Pumpkin Painting, Mummy Wrapping, and Cookie Decorating. Everyone was a winner, receiving gift bags and prizes for each game.

Having been in that hospital for two weeks, we saw several programs like this, and I just have to say that I think it is such a good thing that these groups do to create such a fun environment for the kids in the hospital. Hadley and I got to help out with the Eye Ball Toss, and meanwhile, I got some great ideas for kids parties that I want to have when she gets older.

Halloween Theme 80's Prom Nite

Our first Halloween Party Invitation this year was to a themed 80's Prom Nite party. FINALLY an excuse to wear the prom dresses that I have dragged through 3 states and countless moves. Drag those bitches out, dust off the moth balls, and let's do this PROM THEME.

In addition to the prom dress however, I also have my original crenoline, strapless bra, earrings, pearls and sunglasses. Pretty in Pink eat your heart out. TEAL is the new Pink.

It was a hard decision to make over which dress to wear from my Junior and Senior proms, but ultimately Teal won out over the Wine colored one as most cheesy. I'd give myself a pat on the back for the dresses still fitting, but I wasn't the skinniest girl in high school. Oh well, they DO fit.

To complete this look, I wet my hair down and filled it with Gel, scrunching as I dried it for that fuzzy permed look. Then I pulled the sides out, sprayed the heck out of them and dried them straight out. Finally, I teased the hell out of it. No, I didn't give it a hickey and whisper seductively in it's ear. I used a brush backcombing and hairspraying the likes of which I'm still washing out. Unfortunately since I don't have bangs, I'm going to have to work on the Bear Claw effect. I also put on lots of teal eyeliner, green eyeshadow, and red lipstick.

DG is wearing his original Ray Bans (prescription), Vans, tuxedo pants, and a tuxedo shirt I found for him at local awesome costume/vintage store Flossy McGrew's. He greased his hair up in what my friend Kevin calls "The Squiqqy". On Saturday evening, we grabbed Hadley and headed out for our practice night to a Halloween party.

These are the final results. Not pretty. In fact, DG told me I looked like a Cougar on the prowl. Nice.

If I can find my prom photos in the garage, I am hoping to do a side by side comparison later this week. Lucky you.

Halloween Costumes

Since high school, I have been a fan of joint costumes where you go as a theme with someone else. Maybe it's because I was always too afraid to do something on my own, but over the years, I've had quite a bit of fun with it.

It started in High School when Rosemary and I came up with ideas two years in a row. Our first year, we were Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer. Though we don't have pictures from this year, I believe we managed to find hats with propellors in them. Our senior year, we went to school dressed as nerds in pleated mini skirts, knee highs, pocket protectors, and broken glasses. Unfortunately our peers just thought it was another day in school. I don't think they could tell that we were dressed up.

In college, my friend and I decided to dress up as the doublemint twins. As you can see, the costumes were not elaborate. The signs on our backs were really the key feature. And even though looked we looked nothing alike, people mistook us for eachother all night. I had a great time talking to drunk guys who thought I was her.


Skip to Denver, and my first foray out to Halloween parties was the year Holly and I searched all day looking for something we could be. Then we found cheap silver dresses at Fashion Bug and the Femmbot costume was born. A few blond wigs, pink feather boas and machine gun boobies later we had our outfits. We were a hit....with men. Though guys couldn't looks us in the face all night. Instead they blatantly stared at our chests that had dark green happy birthday balloons spilling out of them. Humph, men!

Skip to a couple of years later and of course who can forget the famous Plug and Socket?

I suppose now that we've had our fun, it will be all about the kids. I better start working on a costume for Baby G now.

Stealing Candy From the Babies

We waited until Sunday to buy our Halloween candy for the year. Since this is the first year at our new house, we don't know what our turnout will be. I got 4 bags and have been whittling away at it for 3 days now. I'm afraid the candy needs to be taken away from me as Baby G is going to come out with an addiction for Butterfingers.

Actual Conversation

As I was gently applying blue eyeshadow to DGs delicate brow:

CAG: Sit up, head back, stop squinting, flatten your lids!
DG: (eyes quivering, whining) It hurts.
CAG: It does NOT hurt.
DG: It does.
CAG: These are soft brushes.
DG: Well I'm not used to it.
CAG: (Giggling) Ok, relax and work on your breathing techniques. In 4, out 4.
DG: Ouch.
CAG: DG, in a few weeks, I am going to push an 8+lb. child out of my Va-Jay Jay, so I think you can suck it up for 2 minutes and get some eyeshadow.

Apparently our costumes weren't the only bit of role reversal we were going through.

Pregnant Halloween Costumes

I love Halloween. I love getting dressed up, going somewhere and pretending to be something I am not. You may think that I am too old to dress up, but when am I ever going to be 8 months pregnant again for Halloween?

I did some research online looking for other couples's clever pregnant costume ideas. There was the standard, paint your belly something ie. a goldfish bowl, pumpkin etc, and then there were the risque costumes, such as a catholic school girl, cheerleader, or nun. We decided on trailer trash with role reversal. I was the couch potato, beer/baby gut guy, and DG was the gossipy out-of-work gal, or Girlene as everyone at the party called him. She's a man Baby! And we didn't even have to buy anything. Score!


Stopping at a liquor store on our way to the party, the check out guy at the counter called DG "One Ugly Bitch", which was what was going through my head as I watched him scuffle in wearing the poop slippers. Personally, I think I look like my brother. This is ok to say as he recently told me I looked fat, and then in response to the picture of me all gussied up last week-end, he emailed me that I looked like the Joker's whore of a girlfriend. I have a BIG smile, I can't help it. So all dressed up with facial hair and a beer can, naturally I look in the mirror and see him. *kisses mike*

And yes, that stain on my wife beater (which belonged to my late grandfather btw), was a natural occurence of eating dinner on the couch. No earlier than an hour before, my father had told me to spill food down my front to be authentic. I laughed and told him that this would probably occur naturally. I still cursed a bit at my plight when it did happen though.

Perhaps one of my favorite parts of Halloween is dragging out my costume bins every year and trying things on. Here is one of the reject costumes that did not make it. I love having fun things on hand. If you ever need to be a clown, witch, 50's housewife, 60's peace freak, 70's disco queen, femmbot, church lady, 80's Paula Abdul dancer, high school drop out, football player, graduate, or street walker, have I got some clothes for you. For all of this years pics, check out DGs flickr account here.