Halloween/ fall is a very busy season at our house. We have to do every fall activity within the span of about two weeks it seems. This includes the normal getting and carving pumpkins, but also goes to the extreme of getting out the four bins of halloween stuff, a five foot mummy and two bags of foam pumpkins I’ve cut years before. This year we made halloween less scary for Keaton, which means we got out the four bins of stuff, but only put up about half of it. Bleeding candles and window clings aren’t really the safest things for toddlers. I have also decided that next year we might take out the whole costume part of the halloween party. I love that part but it’s expensive for people and every one ends up taking off their costume half way though anyway. We normally rent a projected and watch a scary movie on the yard tell all hours of the night which we didn’t do, because of the storm, and well we have a kid and we are officially old and boring. It was a very difficult for me this year, not being able to put up all my decorations, and having the Frankenstorm (hurricane Sandy) to contend with. This caused me a lot of stress, because that meant no outside decorations too! I put some up anyway and well.. my foam pumpkins blew off into the neighbors yard and broke. The storm wasn’t even hitting tell the day after the party, but… it was still a touch windy on the deck lol, obviously. The storm also meant that where ever I went to do last minute things like pick up dip, there were tons of people getting batteries and bottled water. It’s kind of a running joke with my family when a storm comes that they say “bread, milk, eggs, toilet paper” I guess they consider those things the “staples”. When we know it’s more like bottled water, bread, batteries. But when they call you always answer “bread, milk, eggs, toilet paper”, it’s our thing I guess. We’re weird, obviously. So The party was great, no rain! The storm was fine too! We never lost power or satellite, even though we had a new one put on days before the storm. That was a worry of mine that I would be home alone with a hole in the roof from a blown away satellite. That’s right Keaton and I were all alone. My husband is a firefighter/ paramedic and when there are storms and craziness they are there. It was insane, because the day after the party I’m getting texts like “fill up the bath tubs” and “do you know where the batteries are?”. I am not saying it wasn’t a bad storm it is just weird to get random texts all day long. So needless to say I filled up the bathtubs for the first time ever in my life!! You can never be to careful though, I mean if you loose power and can’t go to the bathroom and you can’t go outside then really your out of luck so yes I filled up the tubs lol. So the crazy week went like this halloween party, Frankenstorm, actual halloween! So after the storm hit we had a great night of trick or treating weather, and everything worked out great! I’ll go in order so here is the party!
So these are Martha Stewart cupcakes, I mean it looks like she made them, right? Probably not! I do feel like I did pretty good because, the “broken glass” aka boiled sugar on the top is supposed to be clear like broken glass ( mine has a little bubbles) but I didn’t have a candy thermometer so thats my excuse. It was funny because I actually bothered to read the reviews on what people though of these cupcakes online and it was nothing but people complaining about the trouble they had making these and these woman were so mad a Martha! Woo! Because apparently to get the “glass” (sugar) clear it’s near impossible in real life. Well duh girls we are not all martha and her no life having staff ok! So here is my “I have a life I gave it my best try” version lol.
I also made pretzel bones, and chili and all that! I also forced everyone who comes to be in costume, so here are some of my friends kids being awesome sports about it, they are great! I also put up the halloween tree and my new favorite ornament. I didn’t take any pictures of the storm because well all you could really see was rain and my filled up bath tubs and that is just not entertaining. So on to “the day after” aka halloween. Speaking of the day after apparently a lot of people watched the movie “the day after tomorrow” during the storm, I found that humorous. Any way so my husband has no concept of time when it comes to any holiday that requires we be somewhere or that people come over. So I proceeded with my usual lets get ready freak out. I guess I did it twice once for the party and once for Halloween. So you can understand my craziness here is our child 10min before trick or treating, not dressed, not fed, not napping, playing in the ball pit he spent the past 30min blowing up. This drives me crazy!!! I did however give in for 5 min to take some pictures before I freaked out and and rushed us together and out the door while trying to feed a toddler. I mean I’m the mom so I have to be crazy like that, just like the dads have to be crazy and pick the most annoying thing to be doing instead of getting ready to go. It’s crazy lol. So at least he’s having fun in his pre trick or treat outfit (aka pjs and crazy hair). I feel like he lived in pjs all week because of the storm.
I just love his static hair and yogurt face.
This is us out the door on our way to the grandparents house. They live a street over, no lie we are the real “everyone love raymond”. He isn’t big enough to reach the peddles of his big wheel yet and doesn’t have his hat part on but, he’s a little flying dragon.I love his little blue pumpkin bucket, he’s looking at daddy wondering where his candy is. We put two pieces in it before we left the house.It doesn’t look like it but It was actually getting really dark and this was one of the only times when we handed him his bucket that he was able to find the handle in the dark.This is also I guess what you should expect from a toddler costume, for them to barely be able to see out of it or to be pulling it off.Grammy & Granddads house is always first on our halloween list of houses to go to. Last year was his first Halloween so he was in a stroller and the grandparents house was the only one he visited, but this year he can walk, so I though it was super adorable.We only realized after standing there that he can only say a couple words and trick or treat and thank are not in his vocabulary yet. Maybe that’s why people don’t let their kids trick or treat tell they’re like four or five. Oh well I”m getting in as many Halloween’s as I can, while he’s still too little to object to my costume choice. I mean he’ll have years of dressing up as a super here but lets get real he probably wouldn’t pick a dragon to go as. We were also going to dress up as vikings, kind of a “how to train your dragon” thing but were in a rush to get out of the house. We did wear them for the costume party, but I didn’t even get a picture of us 🙁 After we “treated” at the grandparents house we went two houses down to meet up with friends of mine. Luis and I went to school together in elementary and high school and I was so surprised to find out that he lived only two houses down from the in-laws. So we had been trying to get together to meet his little boy Aiden and his wife Carolina. They came to the Halloween party and we had a blast and decided to meet up with them to trick or treat. Carolina’s mom came out too and Duane and her drove the boys around while we took pictures. Here are the cuties in action!We “drove” them all over the neighbor hood, they were so cute. Then we came home and let Keaton help give out candy. The last picture on the right is him biting into a mini kit kat. He managed to bite all the way though and open the wrapper with his sharp little toddler teeth. So he had two kit kats from daddy, had a ton of fun with Aiden, and stayed up late. I hope everyone else’s Halloween was just as successful and safe. Happy belated Halloween to everyone!
