Halloween!

WHEW! We made it through October!! That was one crazy month. Hope you all had a good Halloween. I think it's a success as long as your kids have fun. I was super tired all day but the hard work was worth it to see everyone look so cute.

 

We got a white pumpkin this year and it was so heavy! I guess this is why.  Mark had to score out half of the flesh on the inside before he could even carve it.

 

 

 

 The night before Halloween we finally carved pumpkins and got out our bins of decorations from the attic. I hadn't gotten them out earlier because I knew we'd have to take everything down for the carpet a few days before Halloween. I felt like the Grinch, but oh well. Luke was fascinated by "The colors!!" and kept dragging me over to look at our orange mini lights. Unfortunately the next day he tried to plug them in himself and got shocked. Kids....

 Mark wore his awesome Jedi costume I made to work and had lots of admirers.

 Luke is just discovering Star Wars and I'm sure he thinks his dad is a hero!

 

Luke dressed up as the 10th Doctor (from Doctor Who). He looked ADORABLE. I was dying when I put his costume on. Good thing he's still young enough to not be embarrassed when his mom squeals and kisses him all over.

 

David Tennant as the 10th Doctor

 

A couple months ago, I found this brown pinstriped suit from Zulily for only $23 (for a 5-piece set!) and I knew that's what his Halloween costume needed to be. I bought him a light blue dress shirt to be even more authentic. I wanted him to have the "Natural white" Chuck Taylor high tops (Converse sneakers) that the Doctor wears, but couldn't find any in his size.

We also bought him the Doctor's sonic screwdriver from thinkgeek.com, which was a huge ordeal. I ordered it a month before Halloween, but after two weeks it hadn't arrived yet, even though we'd received a shipping notification and tracking # three days after I'd placed the order. The tracking number never worked, and I was getting nervous so I emailed customer service. They eventually got back to me and told me that it was out of stock (?!) but they could mail another one out to me once they got some more. So I placed an order for another one from a guy on ebay, but then got another email from Think Geek saying, "Never mind! It's in stock! We have shipped it!" %#@*&?!?!?! I had to cancel the other order I'd just placed, but eventually we did get it in the mail. Good grief.

And btw, it makes the authentic sound effect and glows blue and everything. It even has a couple of pen nibs--one writes in black and the other in invisible ink that is only visible when you shine the sonic's UV light on it. COOOL.

Madelyn did not have any costume drama, thank goodness. Her skirt and pirate coat were from her Auntie Meg, and we added a gold belt, black boots that she already had, and I got some gold fabric for a head tie.

 

  

I had run out of time and energy to come up with a costume for myself until I remembered my TARDIS t-shirt. So I walked alongside the Doctor as his time machine. It worked out. :)

 

 I love these munchkins!

 

We went trunk-or-treating up at the church so that we wouldn't have to tromp up and down the huge hills in our neighborhood. The weather was actually really nice. A good 20-30 degrees warmer than it's been in years past!! We got lucky.

Madelyn and her friend Emma

 

Madelyn with our neighbor friends Naj, Ellie, Maj and Daytan

Our neighbors Austin and Merek

The best part of the night was when people actually recognized who Luke was. I think five or six people saw him and started geeking out over Doctor Who. Yay!!

 

The kids got A TON of candy. (Madelyn's said it was the best Halloween ever because she got so much.)

Those two loved handing out candy. They gave out huge handfuls, which made it go quickly...

 

 

  

Waiting for trick-or-treaters... ♥♥♥

  

 Mark carved one of our pumpkins into the (Star Wars) Rebel insignia...

 

  

Madelyn ended up going with Emma and her cousins trick-or-treating around a few blocks, which was nice because Mark and I could stay home and flop on the couch in tiredness...

 

 When Luke answered the door without pants on, Mark told the girls that he was dressed as Tom Cruise from Risky Business. They were like, "Huh??...."

 When Madelyn came back, she took stock of her candy haul and I roasted the pumpkin seeds.

  

Until next year!