Life is an adventure: Halloween 2012

It wouldn't be a Holiday if it didn't start off crazy at my house. Nothing seems to go smooth with 3 boys. We started off our Halloween activities with a school nightmare project. Josh had to decorate a pumpkin like a character he was reading in school. Josh loves to draw, paint etc. So this sounded so fun. Ryan and Trevor had a father son camp out so I took the younger two to the store to pick out a pumpkin Josh could create and Gavin could paint along with him. We spent all day Saturday painting that pumpkin. (all day) woke up Sunday and all the paint just slid right off the dumb thing. So with Josh in tears I promised him I would go back to the store get some spray paint and paint the thing before he come home from school so he could turn it in on time. It took me forever to paint that dumb thing. Everything I needed to accomplish that day was put on hold to help my little guy out. It did all pay off in the end. Josh was happy, the project was in on time and he got a good grade a 95. He (I) got docked 5 point for something LAME. But that was really a case of a fun project gone wrong. I should of known that was a start to a bunch of craziness things to come.

Scardy Squirrel.

The boys wanted to carve pumpkins this year. I kinda just forgot about it the last two years, because it ended up me doing the whole thing. And I'm not a big fan of scraping out pumpkin goop and carving 3 pumpkins. But this year they were old enough to do everything them selves. We had to wait until a few days before Halloween because it's so warm here the darn pumpkins rot with in a day. So we dashed to pick out pumpkins on Saturday so we could carve them for FHE on Sunday

Trevor picked out a giant life sized one. That thing was HEAVY.

Josh insisted on having his barf. He really got into the carving this year.

Where is Gavin you may ask? He still has a weak stomach for smells. (just like his Mom poor thing) and when we cut the pumpkin open he almost threw up. He couldn't smell it with out gagging. So I had him draw his design on his pumpkin and I cleaned and carved it for him.

Then guess what I forgot. To take a picture of the final pumpkins. WHAT? Man I'm really losing it.

I did manage to get one of Josh's barfing though. He was so proud of it.

We started our candy feast with the Ward Trunk or Treat. I brought a bunch of treats and when I went to set them on the table they asked me if I wanted them to be on the judging table. I said "oh please don't judge mine." I hate things like that. But later I guess they ended up in the judging table and funny thing is I won Best over all dessert. The prise was a $25 gift card to Pei Wei. But I was so imbarrased, Ryan said I turned 4 shades of red when they called my name. Luckily I was warned a little a head of time or I would of been a lot worse. But still imbarrasing!!

This was the only picture we got of it.

Halloween day Ryan's parents were coming into town to watch the boys for the next 6 days. So I had to get the house spotless, get all the groceries, write out the boys schedule, (which was crazy that week) have dinner ready, and get the boys all ready for Halloween. As if I didn't have enough to do that day as Gavin was leaving for school his Shoe broke. The stinking strap fell right off so he couldn't wear it at all. After big tears because the only other options were to wear his church shoes or his sandals with socks I told him I would dash to the shoe store and get him some to trick or treat in. I had to wait until 10:00 for the dumb stores to open. So it was a good thing that I got up at 5:00 that morning and started my cleaning early and also did the upstairs the day before.. He wanted red ones. And of course the store didn't have red ones in his size. So I went to another store. No red ones. So I opted for green light up ones. After all one light was red. And it was the only pair they had in his size. Luckily I told a friend that was with me when I pick up the boys and she really talked up the shoes. So if she liked him Gavin thought they were pretty cool. Thanks Heather.

Then the fun began. This year Gavin wanted to be a pea-shooter. I tried and tried to talk this kid into being a super hero or something that I can buy at the store. Because this Mom just isn't very good with crafty/sewing stuff. But nope a pea-shooter was all he dreamed of. I asked a very talented friend for help but then felt guilty with this time consuming costume so I just decided to attempt to make the dumb thing myself. While I'm not good at sewing I sure can glue and staple something. Only problem is it doesn't last. And Gavin only wore the mask for pictures. :). But for the moment he wore it I was pleased he in fact did look like the pea-shooter from the plants VS zombie game.

One of the things we were fascinated with when we moved to TX was how Halloween worked. It's so warm and everyone is outside. Most people just come out on the porch to hand out candy and you can stay out for Hrs if you wanted. Unlike that in Seattle where you froze your butt off in 10 seconds. And ended up with a wet soggy costume and frozen body. Clair and Nancy too were in amazement. "They kept saying there are so many people out". " It's so nice." The boys had to dump their buckets a few times because it got so heavy. Here it's not a challange to get a full bucket. In Seattle it was a treat well worth the effort to get just half of the bucket filled.

Getting Ready to head out.

Trevor kept telling me he was to big to dress up. But at the last min. He decided he couldn't live with out all that candy. So he put on his motorcycle gear and dashed away with his friends. All three boys were roasting to death and ended up super sweaty from the night. Poor Josh was Mr. Grump after a hr. He wanted to call it quits and go to the Haunted Garage. He was exhausted and hot. Sadly the people didn't do the garage this year so he was pouty the rest of the night.