Valeria Out Loud

Hey Everyone! 

Happy Halloween!  Hope you all had a fun night filled with lots of laughter and candy!!! 

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. Since I can remember, I have love love loved to dress up, and now that I am older, I enjoy seeing all the kids in their costumes scattering around in excitement going door to door for candies.  It’s so cute!, and it’s really a magical night.   

This year, we had planned to have the crew back up here to trick o’treat.  Halloween used to always be at our house but when our town started with strict hours as the kids were growing, 5PM-7PM, our family and friends were sorta bummed and we started to go in my sister’s town -the last two years. It has been great fun, and we can be out later, BUT, because last year the four of us had stayed up here as our kids were ill with stomach bugs, we allowed them to go a few houses, they loved being in their neighborhood seeing friends and faces to the houses nearby.  So this year, the girls really wanted to have everyone back up here like it used to be to celebrate together, but the universe had other plans!  We ended up back down in my sister’s town!  Haha  

Our town had to postpone Halloween due to the storm on Sunday night. A large portion of the town, about 80%, has been without power and with loose wires, giant trees/debris down and just  big mess. We were spared this storm, luckily, but, the town has been on shut down since Sunday, and the kids have been out of school…today being day three in a row. Oh boy!  They are big time bummed because of all the school activities, but I am sure hanging with me is better….  YES  IT  IS> hahah

We had a busy Halloween season, yes, this is a season!  🙂  The kids had three costume parties, we pumpkined, face painted, birthdayed, Andi Macked, cob webbed, Fall fested and Halloweened…all real words.  Through the month we had the kids dressed up as a sugar skull cat, a sugar skull, Louise Belcher, a grand-mom,and a voodoo doll.  I avoided a Sugar Skull Louise, because she wants to sugar skull everything. This particular Halloween night we had Louise and Bob Belcher, a Voodoo Doll and a Living Dolly.  🙂     Everyone looked great.  I wasn’t all that impressed with how I came out, but I had a lot of fun wearing 28″ hair ponytail extensions!!

Here are some pics of the season’s fun…

For Halloween party 1..the Voodoo Doll and Sugar Skull Cat

Voodoo Doll Costume

Sugar Skull Cat

I just loved these…yodels and nuttebutters made into spooky treats… yUM!

Louise Belcher

Louise and the Voodoo Doll

Halloween Party 2

The voodoo doll

Louise

The spider web!

My family pumpkin picking

Oh my gourd.ap

apple cider donuts..yum

and cocoa

Fall Fest at School

Caricatures by See Mike Draw

Party number 3- Sugar Skull (because of course)

Grandma Rose

tried my best with ten seconds to make bleeding eyes. not my best work hahah

Even found this great playlist on top of what I have..also I love her costume…ideas for next year??

Carving! I gutted it, he carved it, and I detail carved it…we are the best carving team.

Our carved pumpkin..no stencil but it came out great!

Jack Skellington O’Lantern haha

playing on snap while painting nails

Halloween NIGHT

Sunlight is the best filter…just remember that.

Living Doll

Doll face

I wore hair extension pony tails that weighed a million pounds, but they looked great.

bloody nails

Magic Legs costume..it was cute! And I can use it as a pirate, wench, fat girl in stripes, or anything I decide in the future haha

My husband went as Bob Belcher… long story short, I said let’s go as a family costume..Bob’s Burgers, and I got denied…then half of them DRESSED UP AS THEM ANYWAYS!! arg!!

All the kids together!

My sister in law..the Starbucks Mermaid

Her costume was real good! Ideas for another year….hmmm

Bob Belcher Costume

My sister, I think she is a melange of clock work orange and the madhatter

My moms..she is just a cutie…and tiny haha

the graceffa girls

I tried being serious, but i look mean hahah

my oldest…i love her lil face.

HAPPY HOWLOWEEN RED!

My sisters dog

Stranger Things on a table of candies along the route..

Cool carvings we saw out on the streets

Fun month overall..  I LOVE HALLOWEEN TIME!! 

We don’t have a solid date for our town’s make up Halloween night yet, probably will hear something today.  I invited the crew back up for it, so we will be doing this all over again (at least for a little bit) on that night.  🙂  HALLOWEEN TWICE!! Woo!!  (that just made my day!)  Probably won’t blog about the second Halloween, but I have some fun things coming up that I will be blogging about… like ….JAPAN! 

Yes! JAPAN! I haven’t told many people, like outside my family two people know..so now you know. In six days from today I will be on my way to Japan with my husband.  We went in 2004, when I tagged along on a big work trip, and this year he has to go for five days for work and he convinced me to come with.  So after a couple of weeks debating with myself on the pros and cons about going, I decided that I was going!  How many other times will I have this opportunity again??  I never thought I would be going back but here I am with a ticket, new clothes, all the Japanese travel books and it’s happening!   I am nervous, electrified with excited, nervous, looking forward to seeing Tokyo again, nervous, happy to eat sushi in the land of sushi, nervous, eager to shop, nervous, thrilled to be going …and just nervous.  haha  Did I mention I am nervous?  I have never been this far away from my children before, or taken a direct flight over the country and Pacific(14 hours or so), and it just strikes a fearful nerve I have never experienced much before.  I just hope to sleep on the plane and it goes by fast.  PLEASE LET IT GO FAST!    

And, I haven’t decided if I will daily blog like I had in the past posting it when I get back or just lump this trip into one post, but I will figure it out.  We have so much to do before Tuesday!!  🙂 

Ok, so this WAS a Halloween blog not Japan.. sorrrRRRry! BUT … Hope you all had a blast last night, too!  xoxo