Frightfully Fun

This may have just been our most wholesome year yet. All clad in a red $10 Forever 21 dress, black leggings and a skull dotted scarf tied in as a belt and a $4.00 headband from the halloween store, I’ve visibly transformed into Minnie Mouse. At least in my mind I did. I’m not out to win the grand prize anyway, although I seriously considered a zombified alternative - a dead mouse - but ultimately fell into the throes of lethargy and decided wholesome will do for this year.  

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

You can see it but she's rocking a black AC/DC shirt underneath her polka-dot wholesome-ness!

Friday night was HubbyHubs birthday party at home with family which we conveniently theme apropos to said lethargy. A Pajama party! I had cooked all afternoon and so in spite of the public appearance of my Muumuu my hair smelled of the essence of fried chicken and baked spaghetti. Truly frightful. The rest of the weekend was slathered with a generous serving of friends and fun - and a decadent mousse cake.

Boo!

Trick or Treat tonight around the neighborhood!  Tonight’s cast of characters included, a Jedi soft serve ice cream cone, a banana, a medieval couple, a dinosaur, batman, Gumby, a german maid and Pocahontas.  The chill in the air was definitely one of the season’s trickeries, but then that’s the Bay area for you. Warm and inviting one moment and a chilly micro-climate shift three houses down the road later. 

Still, Minnie Mouse and her crew - friends and family in tow, trotted on with pea coats and hoodies and held on to her candy pail for dear life. I have to say, that really cracked me up. How she held on to it ever so tightly, so alert, curious and surprisingly quiet during the walk though of houses. Even when exhaustion crept up on her halfway through our candy route, she refused to be carried and soldiered on, albeit holding Daddy’s hands until we decided it was getting too cold for the little ones. 

Notice Gumby and his friend, the Saber wielding Jedi Soft serve cone.
Gumby, Batman and Elmo. Randomness.
No Mandarin! NOT the Almond Joyyyy! Nooooooo!

Back home, all the candy was for the taking. All TEN of it. Not much loot this year and definitely a step up from last year, Mandarin munched through the packaging; Whoppers was her favorite and her friend (two weeks younger than Mandarin) actually broke through the packaging and thoroughly enjoyed the sugar rush of a Crunch bar. 

Now that Halloween has officially passed, it now shifts to that time of year when everything runs on warp speed. Thanksgiving. Road trip! Parties. Birthdays. Parties. Then Christmas; parties, and before we know it a new year dawns on us. So many incredible opportunities to celebrate and memories to create that I can easily lose myself in the labyrinthine hallways of to-do lists. 

And so. 

I need to stop and breath and pause to feel that chill in the air.  The scent of the holidays and its slew of party hats, dinner plates and ornaments are set to arrive and I want to make sure that we are right there and ready when it does, because we are thrilled to welcome it back into our home. 

Hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween weekend! 

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