If you see a spider on Halloween...

...tradition says that means a loved one is watching over you. Well, I can tell you, we are well watched over here...there are a LOT of spiders. In fact, we didn't even have to decorate for the holiday...the spiders did it for us! These are the spiders that watch over us around here...pretty ugly, huh? (Sorry, Amanda, but I had to post it once... They give me the heebie jeebies too.) There was one outside my bedroom window for a while and I named her Charlotte but then she started laying eggs and I had to kill her...heartless, I know, but she creeped me out and I couldn't sleep...
Anyways, here is Manon's new cat. She doesn't have anything to do with the Harvest Party, Halloween, or spiders, but she's cute, and I wanted to post a picture of her. Her name is Rosie, and she's a blue-eyed Siamese cat. Adorable. But I still love my Maggie more! Rosie climbs up my sweatshirt and nestles in my hood and goes to sleep. She's pretty cute.
Anyways, back to the Harvest party ( a week and a half late...), we had a blast! Here's a costume summary: I was a "Skittle Bottle," but it looked more like a Skittle bag, and going to the left, we have the popular social networking site "BookFace," Kobe Bryant, Jaguina the jaguar, Spider Baby, A Mac, a basketball player, Ivy from The Village, and a used Q-tip. The front row, from left to right, is Ariel, Super Cute, China G.I. Joe, the Lion of Judah, and SuperGirl. In a nutshell, superheroes, superstars, andsuper-computers were well-represented.
We carver pumpkins (mine was a cat, not pictured) and played games with the kids. We wen't bobbing for apples, and Manon may or may not have lost a tooth during the game. We still can't figure out if she was joking...I think she lost it earlier and then pulled it out as a joke, because there wasn't any blood... They did a fair job boobing for apples, especially since it was only the second time they'd ever done it. When I took the apples inside, I found four apples with bites taken out of them... and Judah, twice, dropped Rosie in the water because he thought it was hilarious. Which it basically was.
Hannah also did a fishing game, and the prizes were all Skittle Bottles, provided my moi. They seemed to like it, but they weren't interested for long because the fire got started and we roasted marshmallows...Yes, Mom, we actually got to roast marshmallows after you teased me about it! One of the logs popped hugely (I know no other way to describe it) and an ember burned a hole in Kobe's shorts. I, thankfully, was nowhere near the fire, so I didn't have to demonstrate "Stop, Drop and Roll" for the children. Through, I did tell them the story, and now all Judah wants to hear is "story when you little?"
And here is a shot of me and Hannah. Like I said, Skittle Bottle. Manon took to calling me nicknames. She tried out a few, but this one stuck, so I dressed up as one for Halloween. And Hannah, well, she;s basically Ivy from The Village. She's innocent and knows not much of the greater world--but I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean, in the movie, Ivy is blind, but she still doesn't know that there is a bigger world out there. And Hannah doesn't know who Cher is. Okay, maybe no one should know who Cher is, but you get my point? And she doesn't go to hospitals or take medicine... Anyways, that was our Harvest Party. And then when we wlaked home that night, I was wearing the bad color, but I was with the good color, so Those We Do Not Speak of didn't touch me. They knew I was innocent too...