Halloween (a week too early)

Friday, October 30th. A strange and mysterious note was left on our doorstep with this (click on the photo so you can read the note):
A brain and an eyeball!!! Which we later ate. Watermelon flavor- yum!

What did I do this Halloween that I have never done before? Make my daughter's costume!!! Allie and our close friends/neighbors (aren't they the best kind!?) decided they all wanted to be Geisha Girls. My friend Emily offered to make Allie's costume. I was quite relieved. And then I was feeling bad about that so I offered to hem it. And then, I don't know where it came from, but I decided to sew the thing myself! Maybe it was because I knew Emily would be right there to "hold my hand" through out but I did it! I am pretty proud of myself too. Allie ended up getting to wear it 4 times that week- once to the church Fall Social, once to dance class, once to school for the costume parade and then of course on Halloween. We sprayed her hair black for one of those days and then ran out of the hair spray. So did the grocery store. So for Halloween Allie decided to go with green. Hey, it is Halloween so why not.

We were so happy that the weather was nice since it had snowed for two days in the middle of the week. By Saturday it had warmed up and we ended up going out and going further than we have in years past. We went with the Hedricks (our friend/neighbors) which made it so much fun. So why did it come too soon? There are a lot of things I wish I could do over. I never really got to decorate for Halloween. We missed that. I never got a photo of Jason and I together (he was a dog and I was cat). I broke the wires while trying to put in the doorbell (which we haven't had for months) so we could be ready for trick-or-treaters. All of those fun little things that help you feel ready and like you can enjoy the holiday. Oh well, we still had fun. How can you not?! It's Halloween!