Halloween

oh blog how I have neglected you. Facebook has taken me away but I remembered you.

We did not take Halloween for granted one moment this season. It was jam packed with festivals, parades, costumes, trick-or-treating and a Day of the Dead party. Sigh. I hated taking the decorations down.

Here is my hansberger hamburger and my scary ghoul guy. I guess we have reached a crossroads of no longer allowing mom to make ironic or cute costumes. We must now be scary and masked. He freaked me out in that white mask. I think it was so scary because it was expressionless and vacant like customer service. but I digress..

We took a trip to Burt's Pumpkin Patch with the Boyers. Perfect day! Lots of pumpkins and strangely shaped gourds to play with. We had roadside barbeque, deep fried oreos and even stopped at the apple orchard before landing at Brick Store Pub. Couldn't have planned a day like that!

Marc and I dressed as Juno and Paulie Bleeker. It was hard not to laugh at ourselves. If only you could see my hamburger phone and jug of sunny D. When I stopped at the grocery store to buy ONLY a jug of Sunndy D and orange tic tacs, the clerk said "oh my. It is about your time!" I shocked her when I revealed that it was, in fact a kickball. We went like this to the Little 5 points parade.Where we saw people like this...

When this scary woman walked by I said "yikes, she's scary." The woman next to me gave me a gentle pat along with "don't worry darlin. Your baby's not going to come out like that." seriously. After the parade we headed over to 6 feet under, another tradition. I forgot how difficult it is to eat gumbo with a big ol belly.

Our Day of the Dead altar of remembrance