Workin Hard For The Money

A family friend of mine makes very creative Halloween costumes every year and enters them in contests, and sometimes even goes to Vegas. So this year he asked if we'd like to join in on the fun and wear his costumes and if we win, we split the $ with him. The first night he wore his Obama mask he made, Brandon was the secret service, and I was the "healthcare" nurse. We had lots of fun with it, and it was like walking around with a celebrity!! We went to Martini Ranch that night in Scottsdale and EVERYONE got their picture with Obama. Sadly we didn't win but we made it pretty far. In my opinion it was the best group costume and very clever! The young kids love Obama. But the stupid bar people who voted were not accurate in their voting (even though when we saw people individually they all loooved it! ). It was right after a metal band played and they were just yelling for whoever. Didn't make sense. But some robot guy beat us. But he was a nice guy so its ok :-)

So then the next night we decided to dress differently. He has a Ghost Rider costume that has won a lot so we had Brandon dress up in it. It's basically an invisible cowboy that is super tall and does TONS of tricks!! He has strobe lights, smoke, he can spit water, and pee. :-) Brandon had sooo much fun walking around and dancing in it. Our first contest was at Toby Keiths in Tempe. Such a fun place!! It made me want to be a cowgirl (I was wearing a cowgirl outfit too, to match Brandon) haha. So that place was an EASY win because its a western place and there wasn't much competition. We got there and no ones on the dance floor yet because the band was on in like 30min so Brandon starts dancing by himself on the floor to play his costume so we win :-) haha it was soooooooo funny. I'll post the video if it lets me. Ok so we ended up winning $500 there and then headed straight over to McFaddens in Glendale. This place was much more packed and CRAZZZYY! Lots of good costumes but we definitely had the most creative and crazy one. So we waited about 3 hours until they actually announced the results and this whole time Brandon is dancing with like everyone in the whole club, giving them high fives, whatever. Again, so funny! Because he is like 7 feet tall in this and he is invisible. So it gets to be the end and they announce the final 3.... 1) the tall skeleton guy thats in the night before xmas 2) the ghost rider (brandon) and 3) a guy in a chicken costume holding a cage with a person in it. The crowd had the biggest cheer for Brandon!! So then they eliminate the skeleton guy and re-do it with Brandon and the chicken. Don't ask me why they did this!! I still think Brandons was louder but they were close and they completely turned down the music for the chicken and...the stupid chicken wins $1,000!! GRRR!! So not fare! Even the DJ said that Brandon had the best in his opinion. But at least we all had fun, just sad that we totally should have won that and poor Brandon worked so hard and was sore in it.

My parents went out as well...my dad wore a grim reeper costume that does crazy effects too, and they ended up winning $1,500 total Lucky!!

Ok here's the pics!.........

Secret Service and Obama

One of the many pictures we took with people.

Metal Heads band

Obama and I

Ghost Rider! Bill is standing behind him in this one so those aren't Brandons legs (in the jeans).

Me on the first night

Look how tall he is!! Everyone couldnt figure out how tall he really is and where he sees.
Wheres his body??

chillin at Toby Keiths, yeehaw

on stage at Toby Keiths for the final 3 contests. What the heck is with the mammogram machine? hahah Brandon danced to Thriller up there!! Soo funny

Sweaty and sore on our way to the next place!

Brandon, my aunt Lisa, and I at Mcfaddens. My grandparents made it out too

Brandon and skeleton guy. Same height! Except skeleton is on stilts

My dad as the grimreeper. Much better looking in the dark and showing his tricks, but overall really creepy!! That head pops up and out...and the body guy can hide under his jacket

eeep!