Halloweener

I realize my timeline is trending backwards but don’t bother me about it.  Enjoy reading about our mundane lives and shut your yapper.  The order of things really is inconsequential.  Just like math.  Parenthesis mean nothing to me. 

Halloween was a fantastic event at our house this year.  Myke’s mom and sister came to visit for the weekend and we are so glad they did.  We were also joined by my sister-in-law’s mother-in-law;  my nieces and nephew’s paternal grandmother; my brother-in-law’s mother; my husband’s sister’s husband’s mother.  Rose. 

I love Halloween and it was especially fun to have a house full of excited kids running around all hopped up on everlasting Gobstoppers. The forecast showed rain but we thumbed our noses at it and went to Bauman Farms anyway.  It was chilly outside and a bit windy for my comfort but it didn’t rain and it was fun.  It wasn’t too crowded and we were able to enjoy everything we were interested in without being bothered by other annoying families.  The kids were able to play the day away and we ended up with some good-lookin’ pumpkins too. 

Myke went down this slide with Eva and came shooting out the bottom as if he had rocket-powered shoes.  I missed his exit from the tube but caught his sheepishness as he brushed the hay from his clothing.  He was a good sport about playing with the kids while I sat around eating the snacks.  It’s my main contribution to our family. 

 

We spent a long time at the farm and then came home to carve our pumpkins.

Myke carved his freehand.  I was very impressed.

The kids were little artists as well and it was a very successful carving session.  And a very successful pumpkin-seed-excavation mission.

It was while we were carving pumpkins that the clouds parted and the water came rushing out.  The sky was a burst dam and I realized we would be trick-or-treating through a flood.  The kids were not deterred.  We would trick-or-treat come hell or high water.  Literally high water...poor saps drove from sunny California to clamor for soggy M&M’s.

I love Eva’s face in this picture.  She looks genuinely concerned about the vampire.

We ended up driving around the neighborhood and hopping out into the tsunami at any house that look inhabited.  We were crowded but made the best of it; even if it meant sitting in the baby’s car seat.  (Christina is the only one of us with a tuchus small enough to fit in the car seat so really it was nothing to be ashamed of.)   

The kids were able to fill their buckets with a very respectable amount of candy and the parents were able to score sugar cookies from the last house we visited.  It was a successfully waterlogged Halloween indeed.

Please, oh please, let’s get together again next year.

I’ll bring the snacks.