Halloween

Usually our streets look like Mardi Gras for Halloween.

Thankfully we had 2 things that kept the crowds away this year.

1.  It started raining about 4:00 and never let up

2. The Astros came on at 7:20

As my kids do every year, they changed their Halloween costume at the last minute. This is the reason I didn't even buy them anything until Saturday.

Kyle went as a cat.

Here he is with our next door neighbor in a costume I will never know anything about since I don't have girls. 

Kyle took off with his friends, and at one point they showed back up at the house looking like this.

Their Halloween costumes consisting of a pair of vampire teeth.

Reed wanted a "morph suit" and settled on this alien one.  

He added the wig.

Reed went to Sean's neighborhood to trick or treat. 

Sean, who had been President Trump for the school party, liked Reed's zipper face so much he wanted to do it.

So this is Sean's zipper face.  (I'm glad my kids aren't the only ones who always change their Halloween costumes.)

Even with the rain Reed came in with a good haul of candy.

I'm not even sure what Kyle's candy situation looked like. I think he was too busy running off to the neighborhood girls' houses...the girls were also busy running over here looking for him.

JR was working on Halloween.

He DJed a party and went dressed as Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell from Semi Pro.)

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It kinda cracked me up because in 2012 I dressed JR up as this exact same thing.

Here's what I wrote:

 I figured JR could go as Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell's character in Semi Pro). 

Of course JR has never seen Semi Pro, but he knows Will Ferrell from Elf, so he was all for it. 

5 years later JR has seen Semi Pro many times and absolutely loves it.

I'm pretty proud of myself for knowing him so well. 

Go Stros!

Jason has been to 2 of the World Series games. 

 Which means he's gone to the Super Bowl and the World Series in the same year. 

 (Pretty good for somebody who doesn't even watch sports on TV.)

I'm not saying that Jason's the reason the Astros won, but he did go on Friday and Sunday night, and Saturday night was the night they lost.

He got home at a somewhat decent time Friday night, but it was after 2:00 when he got home last night.  

This was the picture he texted me on Friday night.

And this is the group of guys he went with last night.

He says it's crazy loud inside the stadium, the drinks are $32 (he negotiated it down to $22 by foregoing the souvenir cup, and he hasn't seen J.Lo. 

I Can't Believe I'm so Good at This

Kyle and Reed had their school Halloween auction party on Friday night.

Reed has been obsessed with the "zipper face" since he saw a picture of it online. At first I told him there was no way in the world I could do that, but then I decided to take a page from Kyle and Reed's playbook, and watch a "how to" video, and discovered it isn't hard at all.

Here's my finished product of Reed's zipper face.

Reed videoed the whole process in time-lapse, so you watch me do the whole thing in 30 seconds.

Kyle was still trying to come up with his costume as I was doing Reed's make-up. You'll actually see him appear in Reed's video wearing one of JR's old Chinese costumes as we discussed if we could stick chop sticks coming out of his head.

We finally just decided on some cool "zombie make-up and flesh wounds".

I don't think the vampire teeth even made it to the party.

Of course, Kyle made a time-lapse video too.

Finished products together.

(Reed's hair really isn't that orange, it's left over from being sprayed yellow at school for Field Day.)

I was a party chaperone, so I dropped them off at Sean's so they didn't have to go early with me.

I thought this picture of them together was so cute!

Sean is the best President Trump I've seen!

As would totally be expected by anyone related to me, Reed won the dance contest.  

Here he is showing off his trophy.

And Kyle and Reed won "scariest costume".

It was the end of the night, so I missed getting a picture. But come on, that's my award anyway, right?

They had so much fun at the party that they weren't even jealous of  their friends (and their dad) that missed the party because they were at the World Series. 

Another Last

JR sang The National Anthem at his last Singing with the Stangs for the Memorial/Stratford pregame.

The choirs sounded amazing and I was really impressed!

Kyle and Reed were happy to see next door neighbor Mary.

And we saw JR too.

I forgot to bring him a change of clothes which was almost the biggest crisis of his life since the Memorial/Stratford game is the "social event of the year".  (That quote was "screamed" at me through a text when I said I "forgot" the change of clothes I was never told to bring in the first place.)

 Luckily I was wearing a Spring Branch t-shirt, so I was the one who wound up wearing this cute, pink Singing with the Stangs shirt for the actual game. 

Saturday Special

The boys stayed busy in the 31 hours I was gone on Saturday.

Jason sent me this "after flu shot" picture which I thought was hysterical.

I'm not sure who has the worst face in this one. 

Saturday was also Granny Sherry's birthday and the boys celebrated with a trip to Benihanas.

And Jason said Kyle had to have his own special picture.

Like I told Kyle's teachers at Kyle's parent teacher conference, "Sorry my husband couldn't be here so you could meet Kyle in 36 years."

They got home in time to watch the Astros beat the Yankees, which I think was the best birthday present Granny Sherry could have asked for.

Saturday Surprse

I made a super quick trip to Ft. Worth on Saturday to go to Cassidy's going away party.

She's moving to Midland and we're all acting like Midland is at the ends of the earth...which it kinda is.

She had no idea our "Britney Spears Group" was coming up to surprise her, and here's how that went down.

We had such a fun night, and I'm actually feeling pretty good considering I had a 3:00 AM bedtime Saturday...except that today is Tuesday, so maybe I didn't recover as fast as I think I did.

Yard of Stars

I'm so happy I'm not a school auction chair this year I hardly know what to do with myself.

But that doesn't mean I'm immune to all things auction.

Our yard got "splashed" the other day, and then I "got" to give a donation to have it moved to another friend's yard.

The boys were excited though.