Bring on the costumes!

As most of you know, the Beckers L-O-V-E to dress up for Halloween:-)  We have an annual party that started years ago at Grandma Sissy's and has moved to my parent's house as the crowd grew.  Every year we STRONGLY encourage guests to don their most creative costume and come over to "compete" with everyone.  Josiah was dressed as a cow and Seth and I were farmers because Josiah is OB-sessed with E-I-E-I (Old McDonald) lately:-)  Usually all costumes are top secret until we show up at the party so it's always fun to see what everyone comes up with.  A little change at this year's party was the addition of the "Best Costume" contest complete with a non-biased judge.  My mom's good friend Carol came over and carefully reviewed everyone's costumes as they came in.  She recruited Grandma Sissy to help her and the two of them announced the following winners:

2nd Runner's Up: Burt (Brian) and Mary Poppins (Blair)

1st Runners up: Fall (Jeannie) and Winter (Steve)
 If you're wondering about the blood, take note of the half "tongue" stuck to the metal rod he's carrying:-)

WINNERS!  Biker Dude (Todd) with his Biker Babe (Mary)

Congrats to our winners!!  Not to discredit any of the other fabulous costumes that were worn, here are a few others that were pretty darn good too:

Two Farmers and their Cow...notice how thrilled Mr. Cow is to be stuffed into the costume:-)

My favorite part of the costume was the tail:-)

Olivia as "Fell from Heaven" (what you can't see in the picture is her casted foot and crutches) and Sara as a Vampiress

Shrek (Dad) and Fiona (Mom)

Two parents and their little monkeys (Jocelyn, Kristin, Karl and Sophia)

Past (Grandma in her authentic 1949 cheerleader sweater) and Present (Grandpa)

Goldilocks (Katie) and her 3 bears (Rijn)

Super Why (Miles), George Banks (Kyle), Dragon (Henry), and Winifred Banks (Robin)

Gold Digger (Pam)

Candy Corn princess (Cambelle) and the Good Witch (Terry)

The Greseth girls

Henry with Auntie Nykki

The Mary Poppins gang

Josiah had enough of the Cow outfit, on to PJs and hangin' with Fiona and Shrek

Smartie Pants (Nykki) "chatting" with Katie and Rijn

Party girls

A good time was had by all and we can't wait for next year!  Start planning those costumes now...:-)