Boo! Halloween Grinches & Pugosaurs! & itty bitty kittens...

it's Halloween here in the big orange house
where i am the world's worst procrastinator
and feel like the Halloween Grinch...
ran out at 4:35 to buy candy
then publicly complained about buying said candy
cause we don't usually get many kids...

but also stuffed poor pugsley into his dinosaur costume
and took him out into the front yard
armed with treats and the camera
for a mini pug-photo session...

isn't he the cutest happiest looking pug EVER?!?

and here we have the rarely seen pugosaurus...famous for bulgy eyes and adorable but extremely dangerous snaggletooth

i also tried to stuff the kittens into a knitted pumpkin hat
but they were having none of it.
 

and now it's almost 7:30 and just about done for another year...
where i'll vow that next year i will do better,
i will be better prepared and the house will be terrifying
and we will make candy apples and robotic spiders
that leap at you and cobwebs hanging from the trees..

but chances are
i'll be playing the procrastinator again
and trying to jam two cats into a pumpkin
and pugsley into a wonder woman costume.
:)

all hallows eve...

and i was pleasantly surprised.

i am not a halloween person.
i don't know why.
i'm just not.
people are always surprised by it.
apparently i'm dark and creative and artsy
so i am supposed to love halloween.
but i don't.

and last night,
the first night of neither of my kids needing me
for trick or treating?
i was prepared for sadness.

but i was pleasantly surprised.

i helped 13 with his costume
and we were all pretty happy with the end result
and then i put out our pumpkins
{another story all on it's own}
and blared creepy scary music from the windows.

and kids came, not many cause our street is pretty quiet,
but they came.  and it was fun.
a lot of fun.
it was so fun that i hardly felt that twinge of
they-are-all-grown-up-and-don't-need-me-anymore sadness.
{note i said hardly.  which doesn't mean none.}