Oh Halloween, you lasted like 3 months long this year. Ha. It's been a nonstop costume party extravaganza up in here. Every night, after the kids are in bed, Aaron and I usually raid their candy. We glutton ourselves shrapnel and then pass out on the sofa, buried in candy wrappers. This year, I'm limited to eating a small selection (lol thanks for nothing, braces) but we're enjoying all the "adulting" we're doing instead.
1)Bradley's haunted forest and hayride
2) Walmart home office trick or treating
The line to get into the home office was also dressed up--as a mid-summer line for a Disney attraction! 1 hour wait had us like "no way" so we hit up the 608 building instead. No line, lots of candy, and done before the people who we just lining up to wait at the main Walmart entrance made it inside. Winning!
3) town center field trip with Soren. It was freezing that day!
4) sugar creek ward chili cook off and trunk or treat. I spent the day dying clothes green to make all of Quincys wildest dreams come e true. In the end she was thrilled and I felt like a pushover for not making her and Reese wear the Harry Potter robes they "had" to have for a birthday party in the summer, with the promise that they could use them again on Halloween. I can't believe I feel for it! Fool me twice, girls! Oh wait, you did, because in March we made poodle skirts with grandma Lynda for 50's day with the intention of you using the skirts again for Halloween. Again, nope. The girls needed to be something "original" for Halloween and I bought into the excitement and spent a day driving to Halloween stores in Rogers, Springdale, and Fayetteville to find Q a green morph suit and fatigues. I ended up with a clearance brown camo top and some old cargo pants and dyed everything green.
I had a fake beard and ax to wear, and chest hair drawn on my neck and aaron freaked out, "you can't go cross dressed at a church party!" 😂 I buttoned up my shirt and ditched the big beard in favor of mascara scruff on my face instead. It freaked Aaron out even more LOL.
So I told my costume story to a friend when we arrived, and 30 minutes later, my name was called as a prize winner for "best attention to detail". Hahaha I was shoveling food in my face when they called my name and everyone turned around and looked at me, holding my soup bowl mid air to my face like "Wait. What?" Hahaha take that Aaron! My lumberjack chest hair won a prize! Burn!
Of course later, as I teased aaron, he got me back as he smiled and delightfully said YES to Soren when he asked for a balloon. (I totally hate helium balloons. They last forever, and then when they finally deflate, the kids panic when I try to throw them away)
And Aaron opened the back door to the van to reveal he had helped the clean up crew clear tables, and stuffed like 15 helium balloons into the van! He couldn't not laugh as he stared right at me and called out to Soren "I got ALL of these balloons for YOU to take home with you, buddy! You're welcome!"
You're dead to me, Aaron! Hahahaha
Here I am with Naomi W, Jill S, and Danielle P. I'm trying to look like a tough lumberjack, but in reality, I had just eaten and my braces were full of food so I kept my mouth closed for the pic hahaha.
5) Cooper class party time!
Heaven bless Room Mothers.
6) Primrose Lane Trick or Treating
My parents teamed up with Durbin's with sloppy Joe's and chips, an outdoor movie going, and a hot cocoa bar for the neighborhood. This street. It's a slice of heaven.
Friends and neighbors all worked up and down the street, and gathered on my parents and Durbin's driveways to visit.
Where else in the world can you still get a homemade cookies and caramel apple in your Trick or treat bag and be allowed to eat them? Nita and Kathy had a table of wrapped homemade goodies for everyone. It was the cutest.
Sloane got tired of her chicken costume and dragged it around over one shoulder.
