Early Celebration

I always dread Halloween. The kids want to dress up, I don't want to spend money - hence we are all thinking of something we don't have to spend money on, etc, etc. Tonight was Trunk-n-Treat at the Church. I began thinking of costumes.......about 2:00am this morning. It woke me up and I couldn't go back to sleep.

I started thinking about car decorations the night before, however, and after talking with one of my most creative friends (thanks, Jamie!!) I decided to turn the back of my suburban into a space machine and myself - into an alien.

This morning I enthusiastically grabbed Phil and started detailing my (I thought) easy plans. He looked at me when I mentioned lights for the spaceship's dashboard. He took my hand, led me to the Honda Civic and said, "We're making a bug, it's easier". So we ended up making a long tongue coming out of the "bugs" mouth, big eyes and antenne. I covered the inside with black and made the kids reach into the bug's mouth to get the candy. He was right, he was easier, but a lighted dashboard would of been much cooler!!

After tons of sweets, candy, and a million and one kids - I am packing up the costumes and come Friday we will turn out all of the lights, grab some buttered popcorn and rootbeer floats and enjoy a movie upstairs all to ourselves :-)