Happy Halloween from Doha

 We celebrated Halloween last week...which was strange to me, because I wasn't really expecting to celebrate Halloween in Qatar.  Apparently there are lots of people here who do, so we joined in:)  Our shipment won't arrive until mid November, so all of my holiday decorations are still on a boat at sea.  We improvised and made our own Halloween decorations!

 Skull and crossbones snowflake,

 spider snowflake, 

 spider and bat snowflake, and 

 bat and jack o lantern snowflake!

 Ellie loved her mermaid costume and was excited to trick or treat for the first time (in Qatar of all places!!)

 She collected lots of candy because everyone thought she was so cute:)

Ellies Couture Halloween

So...we didn't bring a Halloween costume for Ellie...because we are in Qatar and we figured they probably don't celebrate Halloween here right? Wrong. 

Apparently there are enough Americans that Halloween and trick or treating here exist. So, we found this picture (above) of a mermaid costume online and took it to a local tailor at the souq. We also went fabric shopping at the souq for the material for the costume.  We asked for a couple of small changes like sleeves but otherwise kinda left what they did up to them (as long as it looked like a mermaid).  They measured Ellie up, took our picture and fabric, and told us to come back in a week.

Here is a picture of the tailor shop.

Ellie getting her measurements taken.

 Checking out the final product with the tailor.

 So cute!!!  We love how it turned out and can't wait to take Ellie out for her first trick or treating experience (in Qatar of all places)!!

 Just in case you are wondering, this whole costume cost us less than $30 for the fabric and tailoring...which I thought was pretty dang awesome.  I'm going to have a hard time keeping myself in check because how cool would it be to go and have a bunch of dress up clothes made??!!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from the whole Happy Meal:)I feel like a real mom now! I made Halloween costumes:)
Now if I could just get some jewelry made too...

Happy Halloween from AZ

Only in Arizona is it still t-shirt and shorts weather on Halloween. It was 90 degrees today. I love it! Oh, and to wish you a Happy Halloween I will show you the little guy I found right outside my back door last night. Yum, what a nice little black widow treat!