Just Because. Halloween 2015.

September 29, 2017

Just Because. Halloween 2015.

Our Third Halloween with TWO kids. Food Truck Theme. 2015.

First. The Wagon. Well seeing as the theme for this year was Food Trucks you better believe I did my best to turn the wagon into a mini food truck. 2015 was the year we stalked all of favorite trucks all over the valley and frequented them often. Some of our favs are Best Dressed Dog, Hot Cookie Truck owned by the talented Scarlett over at Made It. Ate It. Loved It., and Waffle Love. Amazingly enough we may or may not know each of the people who own and operate these wonderful yummy trucks and more.

For this one Bry had to build me a frame to put on the wagon to help keep the sides up. Behold, Dos Hermanos BOO-rritos Y Mas! Of course the name is based off our two boys (we had Baby Boy Bluth in July that year) and our love for Mexican food. Even the menu was filled with puns (a love of my husbands). This wagon was a combination of foam board, computer generated images I made, and hand painting. The truck was "street legal" with its orange reflectors (not really but they were fun to add).

The KIDS. This year we had two kids to think about when planning our Halloween. Of course the littlest made for an excellent Baby BOO-rito! I made his hat out of an old beanie that we had laying around, fake lettuce that my mom had from her home decor displays that had been all wrong, and I made the little tomatoes and shredded beef yarn. My sister had a vest she had made her little boy a few years back when he was Flynn Rider and I used that as the tortilla, added some more garnishes, and there you go. The bottom I whipped up with some fabric from Joann's and added some elastic at the top.

Little Boy Bluth had a love for food trucks and he also had a love for the show Chopped. We watch this show every week and he LOVES it so playing the hipster chef came naturally to him. His costume was easy. Ordered a child chef's jacket on Amazon and the rest came straight from his closet. EASY-PEASY.

Third. The House. This year our house was a larger sized version of our truck. Our church had been hosting an event called Trunk or Treat so I made a version to rest against the back of our car for the event. Sadly it poured rain that night and we didn't end up using it for that, but glad we got to use it later! We toyed with making burritos at the house to hand out... crazy right? But instead opted to just have Mexican for dinner that night as a family on the driveway right before heading out to trick or treat. The food truck did hand out mini Halloweenies (gummy hot dogs) and mini HamBOOgers (gummy hamburgers) from the menu for the treat. We played music and had a great time.