This is HALLOWEEN - 2018 Edition

It is no secret, kiddos, that we LOVE Halloween! 

We love dressing up in costume (and y'all don't necessarily wait for October to make that happen!). We love candy! We love trick or treating. We love getting in the spoooooky spirit and decorating. We love walking around getting candy with our neighbors. We love carving pumpkins and toasting seeds. 

So, when it was time for this Halloween, there was definitely some magic in the air!

Julia, you went as Princess Elsa from Frozen!

Aidan, you followed your newest obsession and went as a GHOSTBUSTER!

 On the day of, we packed your lunches up nice:

And I headed off for a Weird day at work dressed as our favorite summer obsession, Weird Al! You kids loved the costume, but were iffy on my mustache. Toby barked at me because he didn't recognize me!

Mommy wasn't going to dress up, but then we made her a costume at the last second, and went as the subject of one of our recent movie nights: A NEWSIE!

The rainy weather cleared, our teams were assembled, and we headed down the hill to collect the Long sisters and miss Ana for trick-or-treating!

And off y'all went...running door to door...not being daunted by an empty house, or spooky electronic ghost  (which Aidan gladly "Busted"). 

As darkness settled in, and the candy baskets got rather full...and as your tummies got fuller and slightly more upset from too much candy consumption.... we called a close to this 2018 eve of ghouls and goblins and chocolate....

And...if you look back on the day and the month leading up to it....there was certainly a BIG spark of MAGIC!

Halloween Seventeen

Halloween in the Weinstein household pretty much starts percolating in January. Talk of costumes. Reading Halloween books (Little Boo, Jerry Seinfeld's Halloween, Little Critter's Halloween, and Where's My Mummy? are year-round favorites). Candy consumption (that actually carries over into the fall..in fact, I think you guys still have Halloween 2016 candy as of this writing). Pumpkin/zombie/skeleton obsessions grow.

You guys went to the Arboretum (sorry I missed it!)

You both expressed your inner-pumpkins and spooky specters in art:

By Aidan

by Julia

By Aidan

By Julia, based on the Pumpkin exhibit we saw at the DMA

Aidan (L) and Julia (R): 2017 Jack-o-Lanterns

So...it was time to costume-up... who were you?

This year you guys watched "The Corpse Bride" for the first time...and Julia, you decided then and there- and never wavered- that you were going to be a 'Spoooooooooky Ghost Bride."

Mission Accomplished:

And Aidan, you had all sorts of big ideas of what you were going to be... a Tarantula... Sonic the Hedgehog. But, ultimately, when I took you to the Halloween store, you knew EXACTLY what you would choose to be the second you saw the costume:

In retrospect, it makes perfect sense. You have been going through a Pokemon thing!

Who was I?

Costumes- check! 

Then it was time to GET THAT CANDY from those fools who are just GIVING it AWAY!!!!!!

Family Trick-or-Treating was on Sunday:

And then...the MAIN EVENT on Halloween EVE itself, with your buddies Zoe, Molly, and Kate!

And now... one more treat for you. I put together a little video!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

I look forward to the discussions of Halloween '18 beginning in 3...2...1...