October 2018

And just like that, October was over. We got our family pictures taken:

Had some fun sitting around the fire and singing loudly enough to annoy everyone in the neighborhood:

Trunk or Treat! It was a super windy day, so our scary trunk suffered a bit. Even though Rose defected and joined the youth group trunk, we still had fun. I guess. Emily was freezin':

TCS Bowling Night! We are awesome bowlers, especially with the bumpers up:

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Oh man, we spent so much time on those masks. They were made with a cardboard frame that we coated with a DIY plaster stuff that makes them look cool, but also super heavy. And they took forever to dry between coats. Worth the effort, though. As we were trick or treating with the Von Thuns several people asked to take our pictures, which was pretty cool. And then one weirdo who took an ambush selfie with me and ran off. Cynthia and I were Adam and Barbara Maitland, Rose was Lydia, and Emily was a skeleton:

Our pumpkins:

It was really hard to see out of those masks:

When we got back home after picking Rose up from youth group (she ditched trick or treating with us to hang out with the cool kids) we torched our pumpkins in the usual fashion (Emily didn't carve hers this year):

Good times! See you in November...

Halloween

Rose and Laura were the Grady twins for Halloween and they practiced speaking together in monotones and walking in step. They wore their costumes to school and the principal guessed correctly who they were! They've never seen that movie (not quite old enough for that yet, heh), but they watched the scene from The Shining enough times to get the part right. Creepy girls...

We turned the car into a shark for trunk or treat. There was a gray fin for the roof, too. The black sheet had an opening in it and kids had to reach through to get the candy.

Emily was Minne Mouse:

Emily looks scarier than the twins:

Pumpkins!

Happy Halloween!

It was a dark and rainy night... That's how it's supposed to be, right? Well then we have nothing to complain about. We went trick or treating tonight around the neighborhood and I took lots of pictures. I didn't use flash because I hate using flash, so that means using a really slow shutter speed which means the pictures turned out a tad fuzzy. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. But that's OK, because we had fun anyway and if you don't like it, THEN YOU CAN TAKE YOUR HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.

I didn't mean it like that. I just don't like it when my photos end up looking a little fuzzy and then I start wondering what kind of photographer takes lousy, blurry photos? They're snapshots, that's all. Just for fun. Taken on a camera that is meant for more than that.

Anyway, here they are:

So Emily was a witch (wearing a white jacket for warmth as witches often do), and Rose was Mavis from Hotel Transylvania.

My neighbors across the street. This is what we see from our house. They know how to observe Halloween:

Roxi even gave us a plate of cookies and cupcakes!

Scary Rose (I'm not sure what's going on with her eyes in this one, but I did not do that):

And Scary Emily:

And our scary pumpkins: