Jeff's Halloween Costume...

So I had the idea for Jeff to be a goal post for Halloween. I talked to my mom and my neighbor and they helped me come up with the stadium behind it. I let the idea work in my head and kept coming up with more and more things. Unfortunately it was Thursday, the day before Halloween. I dropped the kids off at Jeff's parents' house around 4:00 and went shopping. I got back to pick them up and got home around 7:00, in enough time to straighten up the house for our home teachers to come at 7:30. As soon as they left, I got to work on the costume. And I worked and worked ALL night. I never went to bed. I worked on it until Jeff got up and ready for work in the morning. He didn't win first place ($1500...darn it!) but he did win 4 tickets to the Real Salt Lake play off game last night, so that was really fun. Here it is....

This was at the end of the day, so the stands were drooping and the hanging things had gotten a little tangled.

Description....The goal posts are shipping tubes from the UPS store. I bought a long sleeve white shirt and dyed it yellow (couldn't find the right color, so I had to dye a white one), he put brown face paint on his face and I cut a real football for him to put on his head (so his head is the football going through the goal posts). The stands are made of 3 foam boards which I scored and bent and attached together. And yes, the seats are all individual little pieces of cardstock, cut and folded. The white seats in the stands spell out Xango (the company he works for). His pants are supposed to be the pad around the bottom of the goal post. I bought a pair of sweats for him to wear, then a pair of 4xL pants which I cut and glued so it looked like the pad instead of just pants. Then I cut out the XANGO in orange felt and glued them to the "pad".

Here are close ups of the stands. I took pictures of Jeff doing different poses wearing a couple different Xango shirts. Then I got pictures of all the founders of the company and edited them so the heads were big, printed them all out, cut them and glued them to the bodies (JEff's body). THen we got pictures off the internet of people they like....there is Lavell Edwards, Aristotle, Mitt Romney, Bono, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicholson, and of course we had to add Sarah Palin, Obama and Joe the plumber.

I hadn't seen the whole thing put together until late afternoon when I took the kids to his work for trick or treating. His face looked so gross when I saw him with that thick brown paint on it. The kids and I were laughing.

You thought I was done huh? Nope....

These are what were hanging. Jeff and his boss Bob are the refs holding up the field goal sign. (Jeff the ref (funny huh?)was "standing on grass too, but he ripped it off somehow during the day.) The cheerleader is a lady that is in charge of their new skin care line that they're launching next week. She's holding a bottle of the product, Glimpse.


UGH!!!! I'm tired again just thinking about it.