Halloween Birthday Style!

It is no secret, Halloween is my Birthday, and this year it was GOLDEN! Aaahhh, yes, I have officially entered my 30-somethings!
It was an emotional and happy day! Emotional because many of my friends from back home called to wish me happy birthday (and I miss them), and happy because so many people remembered me and texted me, emailed me, called me, and sent me fun, fun, fun packages in the mail!
It was full of lots of surprises and good times! One being my brother, Michael, came to visit...he is my favorite, and one and only, brother who I love and adore and love spending time with!
We ate at Costa Vida for dinner and, before Trick or Treating, came home to celebrate my birthday in High School Musical fashion! Yes, my husband knows me all too well and treated me to an HSM birthday party. He really knows how to make me feel young! Love ya Honey!
For Halloween, Luke was Darth Vader, Taylor was a Princess, and Blake was Spider Man, or, as he likes to say: "Spidey!"
The rest are pictures from our fun day! The kids had a blast trick or treating and are still coming down from their sugar high..ha ha!
All weekend we played games, watched movies, and went to see HSM3...yay!

Michale and Kimberly

Darth Vadar, Luke, at preschool

Blakey, or should I say...Spidey!

Luke's Cape

For weeks, Luke has gone back and forth trying to decide what he wants to be for Halloween.

When he decided he wanted to be Darth Vader, Grandma offered to make him a cape.

When she told Luke she was going to start making his cape, Luke immediately started drawing up plans of his own.He brought grandma tiny little drawings of what he expected his cape to look like. When he presented his instructions to grandma. His instructions were filled with buttons and holes and all kinds of intricate designs.

Grandma was extremely impressed with Luke's design, but told him it was too hard for her to make and so she was just going to make him a simple, black cape.

When the cape was finished, I, excitedly approached Luke and told him how cool I thought his cape was.

He said, somewhat disappointed, "Yeah, I know, but she didn't follow my instructions!"

The next thing I know, he's upstairs, cutting fabric, gluing buttons, cutting holes, adding rope, etc.

So, this is Luke's cape...he designed it himself, and followed his own instructions! It's a little too small to wear, but he is so proud of it!