We take Halloween seriously in the Gordon family. We celebrated our first Foreign Service Halloween this weekend, and had a great time. I’ll give that a separate post in the near future, but I also wanted to catalogue (and maybe show off a bit) our older Halloween efforts. This is an image-intensive post.
2016 – Antman
2016 – Ursula (self designed and made)
2016 – The Shadow
2016 – Blue Man and Blue Man Groupie
2016 – Professor Moody
2016 – My drumbone was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. It was fun walking up to kids and handing them my drumsticks so they could play it. I stayed in character – no talking.
2015 – A Dragon, a She-Pirate, a Jester, a Phantom, a Tavern Wench and a Knight.
2014 – Sushi, Sushi Chef, Spiderman, The Karate Kid, Captain Hook, a Devil
2014 – Being Judged in the costume contest.
2013 – Peacock, Zombie, Dude with a Rocket Pack, Ninja, Dragon
2013 – “I believe I can fly!”
2012 – Oliver as the bear – ALL 4 of our kids wore this costume at one point- with a hippie, Dracula, and Wolverine.
2012 – The Dread Pirate Roberts – Dy went as Buttercup
2012 – It’s weird enough that my mustache grows in blonde with my brown hair. I can’t say that this wig made it look any less creepy (not an actual halloween costume, but my wife won’t let me live this photo down.)
2011 – 2 dragons, a knight, and a princess
2011 – Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. I tried a bald cap, and it just didn’t look right, so I went for it. Adam was attached to the table, which was suspended from my neck by the PVC, so I could walk around as both of them.
Before
No turning back now!
After.
Let no one question my comittment to a costume.
2010 – Cowgirl, Dragon, Batman, and Everett wearing the Bear.
2010 – Lloyd Dobler from “Say Anything” complete with a CD burned with 14 tracks of “In Your Eyes.”
2009 – The Grim Ripper from “Guitar Hero II”
2009 – Little Red Riding Hood
2009 Spiderman
2009 – Buzz Lightyear
2009 – freshly hatched chick.
2009 – And I do mean freshly hatched. Oliver was 1 week old
2008 – Knight who says “Ni!”, the Rabbit of Caerbannog, 2 dragons and a Unicorn. This was probably my favorite costume ever. I was up on a ladder, about 10 feet tall. I just threw candy down at kids. There was a clear generational gap between kids who hadn’t seen Monty Python and looked at me confused and asked why I was a tall deer, and those who had seen Monty Python and cracked up.
We have no photographic evidence, but we’ve had some other great costumes. In 2005 we went as Peter Pan (me), Wendy (Dy), and 2 lost boys (Dannica in the bear suit above, and Harrison at age 4 months in a Skunk suit). Last, but not least, our first Halloween dressing up together, freshman year of college:
Juliet and Romeo, post dagger and poison. Halloween 1999.