#Blogtober14: Halloween Obsessions #TBT

When I saw today's #Blogtober14 prompt I was stoked because I knew it would be a slam dunk.  Maybe not the best writing but tons of photos for sure because if you know me and/or my hubby, you know that Halloween is huge in our house. HUGE.  Hubby’s birthday is November 1^st and Halloween is hands down his favourite holiday and it’s one of mine too (after Christmas and my birthday obviously, because my birthday is a holiday… in my mind).  The first few years we were together we threw a Halloween/birthday party but now people are having kids and need to work in the morning… growing up is hard. 

But when we moved into the main portion of our house (we lived in the coach house out back and rented out the house) we entered a new Halloween phase.  Now it’s not about all about the partying (although cocktails are thoroughly enjoyed).

We decorate the front yard with tombstones and have lighted signs and a smoke machine, this year we found a string of skull lights that make noise when you walk by, and we love to see the kids in their costumes and hand out candy. 

My hubby gives out way too much candy to each kid.

Milo ha a skeleton that I force him to wear dress him in.

Like I said, Halloween is a big deal in our house.

Now do you think I could find a single photo of any of the things I mentioned above?

No.  WTF??

And then I remembered I was just starting to blog last Fall and knew I had to have posted some photos of our cemetery at least??

No.

Short of going to my mom's house and digging out all her photos (which I obviously couldn't do because this one was going to be so easy I could procrastinate all I wanted) all I could find were these from last year:



As a member of our company's social committee, a costume was mandatory last year and I was a girl geek a la Big Bang Theory #TBT



We also had a pumpkin carving contest... my skeleton man won 2nd place! #TBT

 

So while we are a family obsessed with Halloween, I apparently can’t take a single photo to prove it.

Milo and Hubby – get ready for a few photo sessions this year!

 

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is hubby’s favourite holiday and so it’s a pretty dig at our house.  We have some decorations up but have to wait until the last minute to see what the weather is doing before we go all out… so far the rain has held off but I have to wait until I get home to see what hubby has done.  Last year it poured with rain, we couldn’t keep a pumpkin lit and we got three trick or treaters.  This year I have no clue how many we’ll get so even though we got a box of 50 chocolate bars (and managed to only eat 15!) I am stopping on my way home to get more.  

I have already had my share of Halloween today… being on our social committee at work I had to dress up.  I don’t actually mind dressing up as long as I’m comfy (I got over the slutty costumes about  a decade and 20lbs ago) but my yoga pupil idea (also known as my weekend comfy clothing) didn’t go over very well so I decided to be a Big Bang Theory nerd. 

Nerding it up with my friend "Wenda"

 

I didn’t win the best costume contest but I did take 2^nd place in the pumpkin contest!  There were only three people who entered but hey, I didn’t get 3^rd.  It probably also helped that it wasn’t really explained clear enough that people had to bring in their pumpkins already carved, not that we would be carving pumpkins as a big happy group in the office.  Oh well, I’m $50 richer J

Meet my pumpkin Mumford

 

This is how much crap I had consumed by noon.  I know I’m headed for a major crash in an hour or so but I’ll be nursing it with a glass or five of wine or so maybe it will even itself out.  One thing in my future is clear – I will be sporting a headache at some point, hopefully while I’m drooling on my pillow.

 

Happy Halloween everyone, be safe!

S.