a costume parade & a classroom party... cousins & trick-or-treating... chili & cornbread... pizza & wine... spooky glasses & sparkling cider... pumpkin carving & candle lighting... dry ice & {state-of-the-art :)} jack-o-lanterns... charlie brown & tim burton... black nails & only-on-halloween 'fashion' embellishments... candy & more candy...
... and two utterly exhausted parents.
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You win mom of the year! I barely managed to get dinner on the table and 2 pumpkins carved. The day (and sunlight) went way too quickly!
ReplyDeletethank you(!) but nooooo... here's the [unmentioned] behind-the-scenes...
Deletemy mom came and helped clean the day before (by noon, my horribly dirty house was spotless... like i told you, she's a rockstar when it comes to cleaning- & i did not inherit this "skill")...
ryan made the chili this year- AND the cornbread (while i re-cleaned everything that had gotten messed up- in ONE evening & morning- due to pre-halloween chaos)...
i carved my pumpkin in like 5 minutes (okay, maybe 10- but it was not my most creative jack-o-lantern :))- after ryan did the messy-digging-it-out part...
& then i ran in to help hailey get re-dressed up and took super quick shots in very quickly fading light (on all of the wrong settings- trying to accommodate for the lack of light)!
...& at the very last minute- as everyone was here- waiting to go trick-or-treating- i was in the bedroom putting my leggings & striped knee-highs on, black lipstick- and eyeliner-stitches across my forehead... my 2-minute costume- sans shower... that i never managed to squeeze in. :)
Your kiddos' costumes looked great!! I didn't know Pac-Man was still a thing. Makes me feel not so old. :)
ReplyDeletethank you! ...& as far as not feeling so old- ME TOO!! (generational continuities... often far & few between :))
DeleteSounds like a great Halloween! So glad ya'll escaped to Oak Glen, too. It's such a special place.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you guys had fun!! Halloween snuck up on us a bit this year. I love seeing all of your decorations...I'll live vicariously until next year when I'll get my act together! :)
ReplyDeleteLoving the big eyes guy - so fun and graphic! I also am living through your decorations - oops I forgot this year!
ReplyDeleteH looks so grown up and pretty!!
ReplyDeleteS-P-I-R-I-T spirit! let's hear it!
ReplyDeleteYour kids look great! I love those glasses with the skeleton hands, and where is that candle from? I love the colors and would love to have one like it!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteIt’s a voluspa candle… “crisp champagne”… smells SO good :).
could hailey be any more of your mini-me? wow! beautiful. and love love love jacob's pacman monster. did you make that?
ReplyDeletelove the behind the scenes... i never showered that day either!
xoxo
We found the men’s “nightgown” (the strangest thing ever… it was fully enclosed, but it had little holes at the bottom for your feet to go through!) at the Goodwill. Ryan cut the bottom off and glued felt to make eyes. It was backwards, the front has a big zipper.
DeleteIt just made me laugh… reminded me of the good ol’ days in which kids wore the simple ghost or hobo costume :).
she is gorgeous and looks just like you! Love the costumes
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness... Hailey is absolutley beautiful!! Love the costumes and festive decorations. :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously...you do Halloween RIGHT! I am inspired for next year. Because I am a Halloween slacker.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Tina
Your kiddos are so darn cute...and you make me look like a slacker! Haha!
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