Week 33 at Home: SEVEN!

This is the week that always kicks off our holiday chaos...after this, we won't have any calm/down time until January. Even with a pandemic. Guaranteed!

On Monday night we decided it was time to carve our pumpkins. G and I had a blast making a Minecraft Creeper face on his (right), and Ava's was...unique (left). Hers was a pair of block eyes and a block mouth. Scott spruced it up a bit, but long gone are the days when we would carve four+ pumpkins with fancy patterns. Now it's all about efficiency!

Thursday was...G's 7th birthday! Plus, it was also the day when they were dancing for their dance-a-thon fundraiser at school AND it was his class Harvest Party. And then after that, he was invited to a birthday party (no, not for him, but for his buddy Isaac who has the same birthday as G.) Isaac's family was so kind and picked up a candle and party hat for G as well, so he could share in the same birthday fun that Isaac did. I finally picked him up at 7:30pm on Thursday, and then we rushed home so he could open all of his gifts from us. He was SO excited by all of his gifts!

Our last pic of our SIX year old on Wednesday night

Taken the exact minute he turned SEVEN on Thursday morning

Cute kid, but I couldn't help but laugh at Forky's progression to G in the next few pics...

Our party boy celebrating!

I took Friday off of work so I could spend some time at home, prepping/relaxing. But, let's be real. There was no relaxing. The whole day was spent doing stuff around the house, running errands, making plans for Halloween day/night, and then preparing a special birthday dinner with both Ava and G. It was a great day off, but whew, I don't feel like I got as much done as I really wanted to.

Mummy Enchiladas...the presentation could use some work, but they tasted great!

Tres Leches Haunted Ghost cake...Um yeah. This also tasted fantastic, but our ghosts turned into melted blobs...we all had a good laugh about that

Halloween day is off to a good start, but it's really windy. We were planning on having a bonfire and then tossing candy to passing kids, but...if it's windy, it won't be safe to have a fire. I suppose we could still throw the treats to people. Or, as my aunt stated: Pelted with Pez! Bopped by bubble gum! Scattered by Skittles! Mashed by M&Ms! Hailed by Hershey's! Crashed by KitKats!

We aren't taking the kids trick-or-treating, so we need to make sure they get enough candy to share. It'll be interesting to see how many people are out and about tonight. Regardless, I have a bunch of fun things for us to do...games, blind taste-testing the candy, watching spooky movies, baking a jack-o-lantern pizza, crafts, etc. It'll be as good as we make it, and that's what we have to keep in mind.

Happy Halloween!

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