Merry Christmas (AKA Halloween)

Weird title in reference to the fact that it snowed for 24 hours the night before and into the day for All Hallows. Green trees crusted in ice and snow beckoned confusion when you knocked on peoples' doors, was I caroling? No, no, I'm here for Snickers. Yeah. Ok, now onto the goods.

Despite the 11 day teacher strike, despite a move the week before, WE MADE HALLOWEEN. As ever. Brock set the stage, and this year was inspired by the immortal tail of Willy Wonka, which his class is reading. Matt and I were a bit disheartened, only because we don't really like to dress up as "people" and I am really more of a crafter than a seamstress and the thought of a confronting what is basically a small tuxedo was quite daunting. Sooooooo..... I found a Joker costume at a reasonable price and snagged the purple jacket and embellished the hooey out of it. Any how, I'm struggling to decide if I should tell you who we all decided to be or just show you. Ok, show...

Matt will be seen soon. I meant my Oompa loompa to be a bit more trampy to justify the name "Oooolala loompa" but really I just look like a punk rock nurse going skiing. This is fine, I am really just an accessory to Alice anyways. 

So funny how when I added the Gene Wilder hair to the hat he looked like cousin Max!!

That box down by his foot he made and inside are Kit Kats with Wonka wrappers on them for him to hand out.

I put on a ton of orange eyeshadow all over my face, but with my paleness I just look normal here. A bit disturbing really.

No, that is not a selfie back drop... it's a golden ticket!! Matt! Amazing. He went through eight Sharpies to make the text. 

Here we are on our way to Boo-Palooza the Saturday before. The weather looks much better, but it did pour cold rain only 1.5 hours later. Still! We triumphed at the costume contest and took what I think was second in the "Family" category (first went to an amazing roller coaster, well met, well met).

Brock was a bit sad that he didn't win best individual costume but we explained to him that that wasn't really what we were going for. When he saw that our prize was $50 to our favorite ice cream place he softened considerably. I think that will cover about two trips (some bourgs-ie cream indeed it is).

We went trick-or-treating with our dear friends Kevin and Shannon. They are expecting their first, the seed of which you can see here crafted by the extremely talented Shannon. So ding dong cute. They were a real treat to have along on the snowy night and Brock would have perished without the use of Kevin's gloves.

So the top question of the whole thing was how Matt could see. He used emergency blankets for the ticket flesh, and amazingly, you can see right through it. It just raised absolute confusion among the dumbfounded public. By the end of trick-or-treating on Halloween, Matt just confessed that he was in fact actually blind when faced with the question's frequent reoccurrence.

WITH A GOLDEN TICKET IT'S A GOLDEN DAY!! Indeed.