The Maughansters

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Mrs. Halloween

I do love Halloween and all the festivities that go with it. First, we have pumpkin carving.

Then 2 little old men sitting at the bar drinking hot cocoa.

Jonah brought this home from school and I loved it. I needed to keep this one.

Will decorated cookies at activity days and they sent me this picture. Want some cookies with that candy?

The kids had an outdoor Halloween parade this year. First time outdoors and I LOVED it! I hope they do it outside from now on as long as the weathers nice. This was so much better!

Will's cute class.

The 3 stooges.

Trav and I went to a Maughan dinner a couple days before Halloween and Josh took Jonah fishing (which is adorable). Halfway through dinner Josh texted me this picture. I sure love those boys!

Halloween was on Sunday this year so we trick or treated on Saturday.

This is who passed out our candy. There was still some left when we got back. Nobody messes with Mr.Bones!

Here's our trick or treating group (except the old boys went and did their own thing)

I love watching this huge line of trick or treaters.

Good haul!

Jonah even lasted the whole time! It was his first time going out the whole time!

Obsessed.

Then on Halloween night we had our party at the Hardy house. It was a long drive after a late night.

And the obligatory group photos.

Happy Halloween!!

Spooktacular October

As soon as October comes around and costumes are decided on, this is what we get.....

He sleeps in it..

He plays in it....all the time!

I swear this is the most patient kitty in the world.

He's spoiled rotten because everyone's obsessed with him.

We were able to make it one last time to Lagoon for frightmares. We picked a SUPER cold and stormy day which was perfect because the place was EMPTY. It's been overly crowded the entire season so this was one last cold treat!

We finally convinced Will to go on Cannibal for the first time ever. Kate stayed with Jonah so Will, Josh and I could go on it. We had the entire cart to ourselves (it really was empty...I wasn't joking. Probably my favorite trip to Lagoon!) and he LOVED it!! He immediately went on it again with Kate so she could go.

Ha ha! I couldn't resist.

We went around and did all the "dorky" little kid stuff but Jonah liked it.

I wanted to do one a little scarier but not too scary. I asked several employees (because the one they used to do in the houses of Pioneer village was perfect but they didn't have it this year). Everyone told us to go to the fun house. All of these employees (one of them was clearly a dad so I mostly blame him) were wrong!! I took the kids in there. Kate was nervous to start but I talked her into it. It was SUPER creepy! Josh was fine. Will was even okay. But Kate was not okay and Jonah couldn't stop crying and I had to carry him. Finally one of the nice "creepy" clown workers showed us an exit so we could get out of there. I felt like the worst mom ever. Total mom fail and we had to go on a few more fun, calm rides before we left.

My sister won a blow up hot tub (I didn't even know they existed) so she invited us over for a dip. Looked fun! But was pretty full so I didn't get in.

Other strange things that happen around here...

Cute Rach at her band concert. I never get great pictures of her while she's playing because she's usually right behind the conductor, but I get cute ones after!