Minions Assemble!

Halloween is here at the Smith house!

Fall arrived late in Tennessee but it felt a lot colder than I remembered, so I'm kind of grateful our September was hot!

This summer we went to see Despicable Me 2 in the theaters and we also bought the Despicable Me (#1) on DVD. At some point in our craze for minions we decided to be the Despicable Me family for Halloween. 

I started by making minion buckets for the girls to use as their treat pails for trick or treating. 

Then I used this picture as a guide to assemble the girls costumes. 

I got everything at Good Will, ebay, Once Upon a Child, and also our own closets. Here's what we came up with:

Pretty cool right? I sewed Avery's skirt out of a size 14 skirt I found at Good Will. And I sewed her shirt a little too. Camryn's hat was a pink snow hat we already had and I just got glued on some pink felt stripes. 

I got Merrick a black and white stripe scarf so he could be Gru. He refused to shave his head!! :) And after tonsss of deliberating I decided to be Agent Lucy Wilde (from the second movie. "Lipstick Taser!!"). I was tempted to cut bangs just for the costume but Merrick talked me out of it. 

Here we are at our neighborhood Halloween Party. 

Pretty cool right? I was pleased with our costumes. We entered the costume contest and won First Place in the Group/Family Costume category!! Oh yeah! {Insert Vector's victory dance here}

Here we are minus Merrick after we won. 

If you haven't seen Despicable Me, I highly recommend it! It is fun for kids and adults. And the second movie was also very good. It comes out on DVD in December!!

Happy Halloween!