Sunday, November 1, 2009

I tried





Halloween was a little bit tricky this year. My helpmate (and photographer) was in, of all places, St. Louis-and he didn't even get to see Nelly!!!

So these are the most decent pictures I could muster. You can't even see his cute mini football, or that his authentic number 10 jersey says MANNING on the back. I tried really hard...by Friday night, after our ward trunk or treat, a library costume party and an attempted 30 minute photo shoot, I was more than a little bit Halloweened out. But I managed to pull it together and take him trick or treating and to one more trunk or treat party-mostly because they had a bounce house, which I foolishly presumed would mitigate the effects of the time change; it didn't work. He woke up at 4:30 am this morning.





Cheers to no more ASDA conferences over Halloween- a holiday where two parents are an absolute must.

6 comments:

Heidi said...

My kids all loved the hotdog! They couldn't stop talking about it when we left.

Unknown said...

I think you did AWESOME! Good job doing it all by yourself! He is Darling. You can never beat doing a football player.

Christy said...

Halloween with out a second hand, no thanks. Silly ASDA, why do you have to have one of those over achieving husbands? which specialty is he going to do first?

Andy & Jen said...

love the costume...wish we could have seen it in person! u r one brave mama to tackle Eli all alone at all the Halloween festivities : )

Katie said...

On top of it all, you even made chili for the ward party. You pretty much rock! I just wish I knew the sex of your baby...so that I could envision next year's costumes...hopefully not another lil' Devil baby. ;) I think you deserve an Angel baby.

Ali said...

Oh he's so cute. way to be brave and face the festivities alone.