Saturday, October 31, 2009

Swine Flu, Chicken Man, and Cereal

Graham's first Halloween was an eventful one. To start, we were minding our own business watching the Boise State football game on TV when all of the sudden someone in a Chicken Costume comes running into our backyard and starts dancing around. My natural instinct was to grab my gun and shoot him for dinner, but unfortunately I do not own a gun. So I grabbed my camera instead. (See pictures below). Turns out it was my friend Logan. He had won a gift card a while back and used it to purchase the costume...a wise investment indeed.

Later on in the day, we got a call from my mom & sister who told us that there were Swine Flu vaccines still available at one of the local clinics and there was no line. They only offer it on Saturdays from 10 am -6pm. Last Saturday thousands of people showed up and waited hours in line. The vaccine ran out after 2 hours. We had given up hope on even trying, even though we're in one of the top priority groups since we have a child less than six months old in our house. After getting the call at 5pm, we scrambled and got there as fast as we could. Sure enough, NO LINE. Word must have gotten out though, cause as we walked out 15 mins. later a line of around 30-50 people had formed.

Finally, we wrapped up Graham's first Halloween by dressing him up in his first ever Halloween costume. Originally he had requested we dress him up as Graham Harrel, last year's starting Quarterback for Texas Tech. However, given the recent controversy with Texas Tech's coach calling his player's significant others "fat little girlfriends", Graham just didn't feel comfortable donning a Texas Tech jersey. So we went with plan B and dressed him up as a box of Golden Grahams. He lasted about 5 mins in it, which is impressive.

Here are some of our Halloween pics:
















































6 comments:

Hannah and Benjamin Aeby said...

oh. my. goodness! He is too cute. I mean the chicken of course :) lol. Awesome first halloween costume for you little guy.

Cool Waters said...

That's great that Logan still feels comfortable enough around our house to play pranks like that - poor Graham looks scared of him though. Also, very glad that we will all have our swine flu shots when I come on Wednesday! Get Graham ready for some snuggling!!

Pederson Seven said...

Awesome costume! so cute I could eat him. Dave was impressed as it is his all time favorite cereal.
love,
Krystal

Ylfe said...

Ooh, I love Golden Grahams too! Yummy! And especially this golden graham! Way too cute!

Pauline Dial said...

We are impressed with the Golden Grahams costume but we LOVE the BSU onesie. Somebody really cool must have taken a lot of time to make that for him!

Britt said...

ohh my sweet