Halloween!

So Halloween is one week from today. I love Halloween. Not as much as I love Christmas but it pulls a strong 2nd for sure. Some Halloweens I dress up most of the time I don't. This year my boys are going to a Halloween party which doubles as one of my friends baby's 1st birthday party. So they are excited about that. Malique is going to be a vampire football player ( was suppose to be a zombie football player originally but changed his mind. Even though is makes no sense who am I to say what he can be for Halloween. Keelan is going to be bumblebee the transformer and Xavier is going to be a monster. I have a mandatory managers meeting on Halloween day and they have requested we dress up and are having a costume contest. So I guess I have to dress up. I don't want to be the only one that isn't in a costume. Problem is I am so broke it isn't even funny! So I had to come up with something that could work with stuff I already have. We have a huge ugly scary pirate mask but I don't have an outfit to go and I'm not wearing that thing all day. So then I thought maybe I could be a woman from the 50's but I don't have a dress. So I decided to be a chola. A chola is a Latina gangster type girl I believe. But they wear plaid shirts khaki pants and bandanas. They are best known for their makeup though. The makeup is actually really beautiful. And I am pretty good at makeup so I'm excited. I'll be sure to post pictures!!!

This is a picture I got off the Internet. This is close to the look I'm going for.

Update: I did not dress up like a chola. I got nervous about it because it was a work party and I didn't want to be inappropriate. Once I got there and saw everyone else I wish I would have but I didn't I played it safe. I went as a football player. I looked super cute though. My babies had a great Halloween. We went to a friends neighborhood and walked with them. Xavier just wanted to be carried the entire time.