I have a love/hate relationship with halloween costumes. When I was growing up my mom would ask me what I wanted to be for halloween and I would have these grand plans in my head. For example in 3rd grade I wanted to be a genie (I Dream of Genie style) I had this vision of me actually looking EXACTLY like the girl from show. Then my mom broke the news that I would be too cold and immodest in the midriff-bearing outfit, but she could make a skin colored long sleeve shirt to go under it. I was so stubborn and didn't want a flesh colored shirt underneath. I cried, whined and pouted for 2 months in the hopes that she might change her mind and just let me be cold/hott (yes, hott with two T's. Showing your belly button always equals hott to a 3rd grader) on halloween. Then finally the day of our school party hit and reality set in...I really wan't going to transform into the genie and my mom wasn't budging. I rummaged around the house and decided to be "somebody who just woke up." I donned my bathrobe, slippers, ratted my hair into a fresh bed-head look and headed out. I was warm, but not hott. I still got candy so it wasn't a total bust.
Our first year here in Richmond we went to the ward party. Rich had a costume...I did not(I felt lame). We got to the party and saw all these great costumes and I realized the next time we would have to step it up a notch.
The next year I started brainstorming BEFORE the day of the party.
A few months before halloween I was listening to the TV in the other room and heard an eHarmony commercial. The idea came that we should be an eHarmony couple that didn't match with the posted profiles. Later that week I asked what he would think of shaving his head for the costume. It took him a total of three seconds to declare it "epic" and be on board. It was pretty epic...and quite honestly it freaked me out that this might be my future.
The next year we decided on H1N1 and then Rich caught H1N1.
So last year in July we came up with an awesome idea for halloween. It was 3rd grade all over again. We wanted to go as a mom with her baby in the baby bjorn. We couldn't figure out the physics of making me taller than Rich (the show Happy Endings managed it and I was pretty jealous).
We thought about him carrying me on his back all night, but we didn't know if that would work out. Anyway, last minute we had to scrap that idea and go with the Justin Beiber thing.
This year we decided in July to be the Charlotte's Web crew. I decided to become domesticated. I pulled out my sewing machine. My mom brought me this machine 4 years ago and she has showed me how to thread the bobbin 3 times. Despite her help, I was way too scared of it and had not ever used it. Finally this summer I googled it and figured it out. I was pretty proud of myself..
This year I was HATING the costume when I was finishing it at 1am but I loved how cute Charlotte looked the next day. We love our little Charlotte spider.
