Saturday, November 03, 2007

Halloween 2007 Post Mortem

We had a pretty quiet Halloween the other night. Reha bought 17 pounds of candy and by the end of the night, we had given out only a pittance so we had approximately 16.42 pounds left. Needless to say, we had A LOT of candy left at the end of the night.

I ate 8.24 pounds at around 11 last night and I’m still jittery and can’t keep my hands still.

Anyway, this was the first Halloween Night that neither Reha nor I took the kids around. In a way that’s kind of sad, but we are old and decrepit and it was cold outside.

Ellis went as one of the Disney Princess’, because she has been utterly snared by a large multi-national corporation into thinking that princesses are what every little girl should aspire to become. AM I BITTER? No, (well, maybe a little. OK, a LOT), but I liked it better when she didn’t express herself so forcefully and we could could dress however we liked.

This is from Halloween 2004:

Seriously, slap that kid between a couple pieces of bread and EAT HER UP, that is how yummy she was.

Though she’s still cute, she has to wear this nonsense, “because I want to be a PRINCESS!”

Yeah, still adorable, but the outfit is so sheer and belly baring that she has to wear sweats just to stay warm. Whatever, babe.

Next we have Jonah, who skipped out to go around with his friend. He was a samurai.

Get out of my way! There’s candy to be had!

I don’t even have a picture of Lucas. He escaped out of the house with his friends before I could get the camera. Twerp.

He was a skeleton and looked pretty much how he looked three years ago, but without the mask.

Seem like Jonah was also some sort of samurai back then. Weird.

But the highlight of the evening has to be given to Carrie and her friends. They went as Fight Club. Carrie was Marla, one friend was Tyler Duerden (on the left) and the other was the Edward Norton character. Best part was the name tag that read “I am Jack’s Halloween Costume.”

Genius. Though I think what they did last year was ever so slightly better.

The funny thing was that they know they are “too old” to really be trick or treating. They just wanted to dress up and take Ellis out into the cold around the neighborhood. So when I asked, “where are your pillow cases?” they said, “we don’t need them, we aren’t in it for the candy,” which though that is heretical to someone like, who loves candy, especially FREE candy, it’s kind of cool. I guess. Weirdoes.

Finally, at work on Halloween, our Traffic Manager came as a yeti.

Home-made costume as well. She’s awesome.

And because I work for a graphic design studio, someone just had to make the whole she-bang into a photoshoot. So now we have “sexy Yeti.” Imagine a whole bunch of us yelling, “Work it, you sexy Yeti beast, you! Work it!”

I just threw up a little.

Seriously, come over and get the rest of this candy. I really do have a bad case of the “sugar shakes.”

1. EXCELLENT photos! What great costumes! I love the little lion! Too cute!

   Posted by Chrissy  on  11/03/07  at  05:53 AM

2. Fight Club, that’s awesome.

   Posted by michael  on  11/03/07  at  10:08 AM

3. Oh holy god Fight Club. I’m DYING. I always see the best costumes when it’s too late.

   Who am I kidding, I’m too lazy to bother even if I did have a good idea in time.

   Posted by summer  on  11/03/07  at  10:09 AM

4. Hey, I probably could have saved you a couple of bucks.  My niece had the same princess outfit Ellis wore.  Knowing my sister the costume is still around here some where.

   Posted by michael  on  11/03/07  at  09:52 PM

5. You make me laugh so HARD.

   Posted by Novembrance  on  11/06/07  at  11:26 AM

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