The World According To Suz » Halloween Par-tay

11:55 amHalloween Par-tay

My mom’s husband, Jeff, and my youngest sister, Paige, throw an all-out Freak Fest (get it?) every year for Halloween. This year they invited MANY more people than usual because they recently moved to a bigger house with a much bigger yard. So Paige went nuts and invited everyone and their mother to the party. It was nuts… and fun.

Here is a sweet pic of me and my mom. Don’t you love how my freaky purple hat is shoving her head out of the picture? She literally has to shove her neck back and to the side to avoid many feathers in the eye. Poor mom… her diva daughter Bogarting all the pictures with her huge witch hat.

How many more pictures will you have to endure with me wearing a freakin purple hat? Well, there are four more days until to Halloween, so roughly… I don’t know, 16? Just a guess.

Here are my children. Zoe, after taking part in the Mini cheer camp a few weeks ago, makes good on her promise to be a cheerleader this year. Jachin, who couldn’t really decide what to be this year, was a stormtrooper again. The costume cost $60 last year, so I felt zero guilt about recycling it for another year. In fact, Zoe may be a stormtrooper next year. All questions about why Jachin has taped a pencil to the side of his helmet may be directed to Jachin… as I’m really not sure why. I believe it may be some sort of jerry-rigged com-system… or something… or just a pencil in case someone at the party needed a pencil.

Here is the sweet — and very spooky — inflatable house that Jeff purchased just for the evening. What kid would not want to have this in their yard?? A few of the children sat inside of this house for an hour or two and listened to the spooky sounds and watched the creepy light show that went on inside. It was really cool.

As with every party, there was of course one child who ran full-speed into the side of the house and crawled under the walls of the house and uprooted all of the anchors from the ground, trying to destoy the house and make everyone else cry. I took this child aside and stabbed him the eye with the pencil that I borrowed from Jachin’s helmet. (not really… but I totally thought about it…)

And I even got a moment to hug my sweetie. Awwww….

He dressed up like a guy in a Yankees hat. Actually, he also taped a leaf on some fishing line to the bill of his hat and blew on it (making him a “leaf blower”… get it?), but he decided that was lame and removed the leaf before actually entering the party. But it made the ride to the party fun, as he had to keep blowing the leaf to the side to see the lanes of the freeway… the kids were screaming… it was great fun.

As always, more pics up on flickr.