I totally am gonna get a door mat that says this. Really. Just call me the Halloween Grinch. With every passing year, I like this "holiday" less and less. I have my reasons. However I have children and so in an attempt to not cause them any additional emotional trauma (Emily still brings up, on a bi-weekly basis-3 1/2 years later, the fact that her Baptism dress-not the one she actually wore to be Baptised in, the one she wore after-was red instead of white. I am sure she will mention it when I am on my death bed as well.) Anyhoosers. To spare any unnecessary emotional trauma to my children, we still participate in this..ritual. Of Halloween. Which is now a full week long event. It started when we went the Monday before Halloween to the Library for Spook Stories. Then Wednesday, Addy and I went to the Library for story time and she dressed up as a princess and went trick or treating in the Library. I didn't get a picture of that event.Next up was Zac. He had a Youth Halloween party at the church the Wednesday before Halloween. He insisted on wearing Addison's unicorn costume, which caused her to freak totally out. He did take home first prize for the funniest costume though. And it went well with his pink shoes.
Then the Halloween parade at the school the Friday before Halloween (because if a 4 day weekend wasn't enough the weekend before, we had a 3 day weekend for Halloween and the kids got to stay home for Halloween). This was a HUGE event at our old school and I was so glad when we moved here to find out they didn't do one at our new school. Until this year. yay. My normal cheerleader, Aubrey. You will see later why I call her normal in this picture.
Emily, who figured the costume worked for her brother, why not for her too?
The Saturday before Halloween we went to my mom's church for their Trunk-n-Treat. My brother Sam and his wife Teresa were in town for the weekend. The best part of the night was when a girl dressed as Hermoine from Harry Potter came by and my mom got so excited and said, "OH! I know who you are! You're JUDGE JUDY!" We all fell out of our seats we were laughing so hard.
After the Trunk-n-Treat we all went to our house for dinner and games. Then my mom and Addy snuggled up on the couch to watch TV and snooze while the rest of us went to a haunted house in our neighborhood that the High School Drama Club puts on. Not my favorite part of the night. I don't know what I was thinking. I mean, if I want to be scared I can do it without even leaving the house. All I have to do is not fast forward or change the channel or close my eyes and put my fingers in my ears and yell LA LA LA LA when a scary movie commercial comes on TV. Which I would never do, so I don't know why I thought I would want to go to a haunted house. Emily was a brave one though. She made Uncle Sam go through with her twice.
On Sunday we went to my mom's house for lunch after church. We said our goodbyes to Sam and Teresa who were going back to Idaho. I traumatized my children by making them watch Michael Jackson's Thriller video. Then we came home and carved our pumpkins. I fully intended to skip this part of Halloween, but my kids still remind me all the time of the year I wouldn't let them carve pumpkins and I made them decorate them with stickers (just so you don't think I'm totally lame, they were cute vinyl jack-o-lantern face stickers my friend Coren made). So once again, to avoid emotional trauma, we carved our little tiny pumpkins that spontaneously grew up from our old chicken yard. I am afraid however that in this attempt to avoid emotional trauma, I actually caused trauma by not having the proper sized pumpkins to carve. Look, these pumpkins were free. And I am cheap. And I am sure there are children somewhere in the world who would have been happy to have the small pumpkins.
And after a full week of celebrating, we finally arrive at the actual day of Halloween. An event I refused to decorate for this year (which Zac just reminded me of as I am typing this). Like I said, the kids had this day off from school. Steve and I were able to go to lunch that day with our dear friends Ken and Michelle, who we haven't seen in forever. Just to clarify, we did not go to lunch to celebrate Halloween, we went to lunch to celebrate Ken being Steve's lawyer and they had official business to attend to.
That night we had a huge neighborhood pot luck dinner and mass trick or treating. Aubrey went as a Zombie Cheerleader.
Addy changed her mind about what she wanted to be about 5 times that day. Finally, about 30 minutes before we left, she settled for a cat. Does this kids have the eyes or what?!?
After the Trunk-n-Treat we all went to our house for dinner and games. Then my mom and Addy snuggled up on the couch to watch TV and snooze while the rest of us went to a haunted house in our neighborhood that the High School Drama Club puts on. Not my favorite part of the night. I don't know what I was thinking. I mean, if I want to be scared I can do it without even leaving the house. All I have to do is not fast forward or change the channel or close my eyes and put my fingers in my ears and yell LA LA LA LA when a scary movie commercial comes on TV. Which I would never do, so I don't know why I thought I would want to go to a haunted house. Emily was a brave one though. She made Uncle Sam go through with her twice.
On Sunday we went to my mom's house for lunch after church. We said our goodbyes to Sam and Teresa who were going back to Idaho. I traumatized my children by making them watch Michael Jackson's Thriller video. Then we came home and carved our pumpkins. I fully intended to skip this part of Halloween, but my kids still remind me all the time of the year I wouldn't let them carve pumpkins and I made them decorate them with stickers (just so you don't think I'm totally lame, they were cute vinyl jack-o-lantern face stickers my friend Coren made). So once again, to avoid emotional trauma, we carved our little tiny pumpkins that spontaneously grew up from our old chicken yard. I am afraid however that in this attempt to avoid emotional trauma, I actually caused trauma by not having the proper sized pumpkins to carve. Look, these pumpkins were free. And I am cheap. And I am sure there are children somewhere in the world who would have been happy to have the small pumpkins.
And after a full week of celebrating, we finally arrive at the actual day of Halloween. An event I refused to decorate for this year (which Zac just reminded me of as I am typing this). Like I said, the kids had this day off from school. Steve and I were able to go to lunch that day with our dear friends Ken and Michelle, who we haven't seen in forever. Just to clarify, we did not go to lunch to celebrate Halloween, we went to lunch to celebrate Ken being Steve's lawyer and they had official business to attend to.
That night we had a huge neighborhood pot luck dinner and mass trick or treating. Aubrey went as a Zombie Cheerleader.
Addy changed her mind about what she wanted to be about 5 times that day. Finally, about 30 minutes before we left, she settled for a cat. Does this kids have the eyes or what?!?
Zac took a page from my sister Farrah's book (she sent us a picture of herself dressed up like this) and went as...well....went as this:
Emily also changed her mind several times in the costume designing process. She finally settled on a rock star. That's her with the git-tar.
Sigh...alas our Halloween celebration has come to an end....
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