an extraterrestrial halloween

I love Halloween!! 

Ok I really just love dressing up. Any chance I have to dress up, I'll take it. Throughout the years for our Halloween costume inspiration we've stuck with classic, quotable movies. See our previous years' costumes here and here. As you can see, we've set a pretty high standard for our costumes. And every year I think there is no way we can top last year's costume. This year we were cutting it extremely close and totally found the perfect costume idea just a few days prior to Halloween. I'm just thankful turtlenecks are back in style because that saved my life.

And here you have it, Halloween 2016 inspired by ET 

featuring Elliot, Gertie, and ET!

(Also can we take a minute to appreciate the realness of this ET! #winning) 

Funny story, Samuel (and his whole family) have NEVER seen ET! What?? I thought a Star Wars loving family would be all about a movie with an alien from space. But a few months ago when ET came to Netflix I finally convinced Sam to watch it with me....I basically just wanted him to know the reference for all the random quotes I say from the movie. 

Also I'm a big fan of not spending a ton of money on a one time costume. I already had black overalls so that saved a lot of money but the rest of the stuff we needed was fairly inexpensive:

1. red hoodie- Amazon Prime $14

2. striped turtleneck- H&M $5

3. basket- The Container Store $9 (but I had a gift card so FREE!)

4. flowers- Michaels $2 

5. ET- this was a little trickier but we spent a total of $1!!!

For ET we searched everywhere online--there were some stuffed ET toys for $15 but they were a tiny 8 inches tall and the all the nice ones were $50+ and there was no way it would ship to us in time. 

So we went to FedEx and printed out a picture of ET's head and wrapped it around a blanket to make it look more 3D and then wrapped a sheet around him to recreate the scene from the movie. 

A grand total of $22!! Not bad at all! 

Not that you wanted to know all of that, but just v proud of myself. 

For being last minute, I'd say we pulled it off!

Now off to plan our costume for next year...jk but really. It's serious business.