Having the holiday fall on a sunday is a bit of a pain because instead of just one fun day of festivities, it's basically the whole weekend. But oh well. It's just those of us whose backs get tired, and the little ones who get oversugared and overtired that suffer I guess.
Anyway, we started the day by taking Max to his karate class--a preliminary strike against the later sugar high. I was hoping a little exercise would do him good.
Then Kris and Max came home, got ready, and headed out to the school halloween carnival. I opted out of that activity and stayed home.
(yes, Max looks like he's wearing some of those hillbilly teeth--that would be a great part of his costume--but unfortunately no, that's his real mouth. He keeps making this weird nerdy smile these days.)
Luckily for me I got to find out we had a mouse in the kitchen while they were gone. I was trying to be productive and was hoping to whip up batter for our traditional cookies. I got into the utensil drawer and found that a bunch of them had been chewed up. Ewwwwwww. Then I got to clean everything in the drawer. It was really fun, and a truly lovely addition to the day.
Off they go--it really looks like they're headed off into the savannah for a safari, doesn't it?
Then after they came back from the school party we had the church trunk or treat. Our costumes were really built around this event--We were explorers in an awesome old land rover. We had africanish music playing from the car and a fun fuzzy dog that we caught on our adventures tied in the back of the car.
And the best part? Moustaches. (Except me--all I had was a hat, but it worked.)
"I say, where can I go to shoot some big game??"
Kris won 2nd place in the costume contest. It wasn't too hard, considering that he was one of three men that dressed up. Plus the mustache is awesome.
The explorer and his beast.
I think the following three photos are pretty funny--sorry if it's mustache overkill.
Max looks like he has a little mustache envy.
We bowed out of the ward party early because we had to go buy all sorts of mouse traps and stuff--the thought of a mouse running through my kitchen was not doing a lot for me.
Then we went to our last event--we have a family in our neighborhood whose kid is in Max's class, and they bring all three of their kids into our office. They're awesome people and we really like them, so we couldn't miss their party even though we were SO tired.
So we went for an hour. By the time we were done there Max was in full meltdown mode. He was a floppy, screaming, exhausted disaster. So we went home. And my back was glad to be home too.
It was a crazy day. Crazy halloweeniness. And we didn't even get our cookies made or our pumpkins carved........
6 comments:
The comment about Max and his hillbilly teeth made me laugh so hard I was crying. Thanks so much for the laugh.
I love the 5th picture down with Max and his mustache and his hair all in his eyes. It's so great!
Halloween is over so you can have that baby anytime now! YAY!!
I love the intrepid explorers with their awesome moustaches and hats. I want to go where those guys are going.
Love you all
Dad
You sound tired. But who needs carved pumpkins and cookies when you're partying all day? You celebrated literally until you dropped. So what a wild and fulfilled crazy Halloween day - and Kris got to be with you guys the whole time, instead of having to run to the hospital on call. Now, I'm gonna talk like Mama - you need to rest. Delivering a child is no walk in the park, and you need to store up some peace and energy for this. So enough with the running. Enough with the overkill and the cookies and mice and holidays. You need to read a book and take a warm bath and listen to quite music. I will call tomorrow and you better have something peaceful to tell me. Got it?
Good advice from mama that is for sure. Get some rest and get off your feet if you can a little. Glad you to see you all had so much fun and I love the costumes. I am sure the Land Rover is forever grateful for being part of the Halloween costumes and festivities. Good job.
Oh goodness! Those are great costumes! I've never seen a costume before that is so complete it even includes a car and a dog! Wow!
Awesome costumes!
Ewww mice! I hate those things! Poor you! Poor you for having to deal with that when you are nine hundred months pregnant! Where in the world is your mother???
And Sultan! Get to work!!!
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