this is halloween

my grandma and grandpa are so cute. every year, they send little goodie boxes for some of the holidays. i have no idea how they decide which holidays to send stuff for, but this year brought us some fun halloween stuff. example: nose flutes. 

the boy picked his up right away. what a talented guy. can you tell what song he's playing? 

and of course, me - the natural flutist and amazing musician i am - couldn't even make a freakin noise out of the thing. maybe my nose isn't built right for nose fluting. here's me playing the same song*

and, of course, what's halloween without getting excited for the trick or treaters? we were so (overly) excited for the hundreds of kids we were surely going to get. we prepared by buying at least twenty thousand bags of candy and dressing the dogs up

the first doorbell ring was like music to my ears. three cute little kids to start putting a dent in our mt. kilamanjaro sized stack of candy. then it happened...the costumed dogs darted (they love a) being outside and b) kids) they seriously mauled those poor kids - one of the kids ran off crying without even getting candy! what a devastating way to start off our trick or treating. so, the baby gate went up to barricade the dogs from whatever other disasters they were planning. about 8 kids later, the trick or treating was done. that was it - 8 kids. twenty thousand bags of candy and 8 kids. now we don't have pantry space because we have created our life food supply out of reeses peanut butter cups. 

luckily, we had a halloween party the next night and successfully got rid of 1/4 of one bag of candy. go us. 

our costume party was muppet-themed...we didn't really expect other people to dress up like muppets (and not many did), but the boy is obsessed with this: 

and has had dreams of us dressing up like the mahna mahna guys probably since the day he met me. so, we did. 

and this is how great the world of blogging is - i found my charming little headpiece on some stranger's blog in minnesota (no...i don't know if he has an accent). he had a picture of his wife wearing it last year - she made it! so, i emailed him and asked if i could "rent" it for this year. 2 days later, i had a mahna mahna cow costume! i love life. and people in minnesota. and people who can make their own halloween costumes and then share them with others. 

to top it all off, meghan came as her look-alike

* why, it's john jacob jingle heimer schmidt, of course!