The Brown's: Dress up WEEK!

Last week Anna had many costumes... It was Red Ribbon Week (drug free) at school and they had a theme for each day of the week. For Monday, it was wear red day--which she just wore normal red clothes, Tuesday was 20's day (which stumped me- I didn't know what to do until after the fact) Wednesday was 80's day! This one, I had a lot of fun with! I got on the internet and pulled up all the popular fads of the 80's and reminisced in my childhood days. I pulled out a few things out of my own closet for this one, a bright blue shirt which for her was over sized and a chain belt and necklaces I've had for years, thrown in with some of her own things like bright pink leggings, a pink tank top, and her jelly sandals. That morning she LET me tease up her bangs to where they were practically standing on end. I even made "wings" by spraying the sides of her hair and blowing it dry so that it would stand out!! LOL I did make her turn away from the mirror so she couldn't see what I was doing until the finished product was complete and when she finally saw it she LAUGHED!!! She said, "I can't believe you actually wore your hair that way mom!!!!!" I have to admit I laughed along with her because, looking back at it now-- it was a pretty weird fad, to think of all the money we could have saved on hairspray!!!

Notice, she is still LAUGHING in the photos!!!

Thursday was 70's day however, that was the day her class went on a field trip so we didn't get to participate in that one, she just got to wear her new class shirt. Friday was 50's day! I again went on line and found some of the popular fads other than the poodle skirt of course. We didn't have a poodle skirt so, I did the next best thing and got one of her black dresses with polka dots on it and put a tutu under it to make it full like they wore in the days. I got one of her cardigan sweaters and safety pinned Steven's high school letter to it- to make the popular sweater the girls wore to say they had a boyfriend. We put her hair up in a pony tail and tied it with a scarf (that I again- DUG out of the closet).

She loved the pony tail!! She is so used to having ballerina buns and never a pony tail.

She even WON BEST DRESSED for the day!!! I was so proud of my creation! (She was too because she was awarded with a goodie bag of candy!!)

Then Saturday the kids and I got bored that night and I decided to get them dressed up in their Halloween costumes and go to a local church for their Trunk and Treat. (Steven was working at Motion -doing their annual inventory and didn't get home till about 7:30 or so that night.) Last but not least... Sunday. We got all dressed up once again for our Sunday School class party. We all had lots of fun at this party... chili cookoff, hay ride, fixing smores over the bon fire and we moms even took ALL the kids trick or treating to individuals on her street that she knew from the church. Anna was so excited that she got to go trick or treating... this was the first year we have been. We always do church activities for it is warmer and safer!