And yes, I know it's been years. But whatever.
Halloween was last night and was, as usual in the house, a big fat deal. we had parties and face paint and chili and so so so much sugar. Here's a quick rundown:
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| Our Halloween House this year |
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| Pre-playgroup party! |
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| Cutest little pup out there |
Noah was Bingo from Puppy Dog Pals. Unfortunately, he got a little sick of wearing his costume by party #3, so he was a lion on Halloween. Charlotte was Ariel -in-a-poofy-dress- that was required to say every time. And Mr Joel was Mickey Mouse until he got sick of that and switched to Sherrif Woody from Toy Story
- We kicked things of with a church playgroup Halloween party. Actually, out of all the things I stressed about for Halloween, this one was one of the crazier ones. We invited Noah's friends from church, and I was super panicked that no one would show. But 4 moms came with their kids, and it turned out great. We did a spooky scavenger hunt, where I would say a rhyme and they would run to find the next clue. We played halloween bingo, which was super fun, and tried to do a cake walk.
- The ward trunk or treat was next. I bought Rob a gorilla costume on clearance at Sam's club, and fund myself a hip and happening banana costume at Saver's. I don't know if it was possible for Charlotte to be more excited about the trunk-or-treat. She was a party animal, running back and forth, dancing, grabbing cookies, and accumulating a ton of candy. Noah wasn't so sure about trick or treating, although he's my little Halloween kid at heart. He has spent the past month singing Halloween songs, dressing up with mom, and yelling "happy Halloween!" to people at the grocery store. Usually I try to get us involved with making chili or decorating a car and handing out candy-- this year we just showed up and it was really so nice.
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| Dancing it up at the ward trunk-or-treat |
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| Love this crazies! The best picture we got |
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| Mickey! |
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| At Noah's preschool Halloween party |
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| One little puppy is pouting, pouting..... |
The crazy
Also, we had just some crazy things pop in here. Like,:
-I ended up having to make 6 dozen cookies for a bake sale, only to have my dog eat them! (Well, ate about half and trampled the rest.)
-I volunteered to supply the pumpkins for Charlotte's class party, only to get the last 7 pumpkins in Arizona ( you know I'm exaggerating here, but a week before Halloween and I can't find 7 small pumpkins? And I have to go to 4 stores? And I find them at CVS??? Come on now....). But after supplying the pumpkins, one got too moldy and we had to throw it out. I completely forgot about being short one pumpkin until the day of Halloween, and then Here I am going store to store looking for ONE MORE ELUSIVE PUMPKIN. After hours of this, I just grabbed a bag of mini squash looking things and told the teacher if she needed to Charlotte could have the "bumpy" pumpkin. The joke was on me, as Charlotte refused to let anyone carve the pumpkins her mom had lost her mind for. So, yeah.
-We had an HOA party last week and out of nowhere I decided to use the PA system to invite our entire subdivision to a chili cookoff party in our culdesac.
Then I had to tell Rob that WE were throwing a chili cookoff party in the culdesac for our whole subdivision.
Good thing he loves me.
The Official Winter Chili Cook Off on Chama Drive
-I maintained a modicum of common sense and resolved to make this chili party bare bones. Of course, we don't do "bare bones" all that well, but I stuck with canned chili, store bought cookies, donuts, and lots of treats.
-I took Charlotte and we went to a lady in the next neighborhood who does airbrush face painting! It was so cool, but it took longer than I thought, and by the time we got back Rob as sweating bullets, having been the one to set up all the tables, the movie screen, and start the chili all by himself. But we pulled it all together!
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