B & K: Halloween 2011

I cannot believe that another Halloween has come and gone. What is even more crazy is the fact that Thanksgiving and Christmas are just weeks away. Time sure does fly.

Here is our spooky front porch:

I really have been unable to decide if it is great looking or hokey. Maybe a little of both?

Above is a little arrangement on our coffee table. Unfortunately, it does not show the puppy nose marks from where Mamie has been sniffing the candy corn. She successfully ate a quarter of one when I was filling the glasses and would have eaten it fully until I made a huge production about how she was going to "DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!". And yes, the all caps is necessary because that's exactly how I said it. Oh, and picture arms flailing to go with the screaming.

And just in case you needed a picture of what the cutest little boys on the face of this earth looked like in their Halloween costumes here you go. Hudson was Captain American and Carson was the Green Lantern.

And speaking of Halloween attire, Mamie got a new tee. I cannot express how much she loves clothes. When I brought the Mummy shirt home from Target and pulled it out of the bag she went nuts. Beau thought I had purchased a ham bone or a kitten by the way she was behaving. The above picture was taken while she was modeling the shirt throughout the house like Tyra Banks.

Yesterday she was The Flying Pumpkin (I've capitalized it as if it were a real, proper noun. Instead it's something I made up because she wore a jack-o-lantern tee and bat wings). The bat wings didn't last very long as they were viewed as a direct threat to her safety.

Because I secretly try to out-do my neighbors, I made treat bags again this year. In addition to candy, kids got bubbles and tattoos. I know their parents are cursing me by now.

I haven't dressed up for Halloween since college (and no, I never dressed like a prostitute/pirate) but thought I would throw something together. So with a scarf, button-up shirt and red lipstick I was a Rosie the Riveter.

Rosie tried to get a picture with The Flying Pumpkin (sans wings at this point) but the mutt was not having it.

BF Irish joined us and wore glasses that made her look like Elton John. She also took Mamie's wings and strapped them around her neck. So here is Rosie the Riveter and The Flying Elton.

Our friends Ryan and Debbie also joined us last night. The girls were the candy passer-outers including Mamie. Mamie was banished inside a few times after she played a round of Bowling for Trick-or-Treaters.