Halloween 2013

Somewhere between Mamapalooza, Swashbuckler's Ball, watching Hocus Pocus on repeat, and Halloween, the month of October just disappeared. Seriously, this has been a crazy busy month, and Johnathon and I were so excited to have this past weekend to ourselves. The weekend before Halloween, the island threw a big Halloween party at the Vet's Hall. Now I'm not a big party planner, and to be honest, hosting things really stresses me out, but for some reason Halloween really speaks to me, so Johnathon and I volunteered to have the Halloween pre-party at our house. Poor Johnathon had to put up with me stressing out the my "deviled eggs" wouldn't turn out right, helping me wrap my "mummy hotdogs" in crescent rolls, and even cleaned the house while I cooked...that's a good husband right there!! :) We had also gone fishing that morning and got back a little after noon, so I was also crunched for time to get everything ready, but it all turned out really cute, if I may say. Here are some pics of our fishing trip and our Halloween spread.

Me with one of our "big ones" :)

Johnathon was ready to catch some fish!!

Me, Amy and Captain Greg

Our Halloween goodies...Mummy Hotdogs, Pumpkin Seeds, Devil Eggs, Tombstone/Ghost sandwiches, and pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Coffin cooler courtesy of the Vail's. There was also some "Vampire Blood" Halloween punch that I didn't get a pic of....just know that it was awesome...and strong...oops

Johnathon and I as Pocahontas and John Smith

All the ladies in our Halloween finest

After our pre-party we all biked to the Vet's hall where Greg and Jon's band RadarLove was playing. We left the camera at home, and to be honest it was probably for the best. Let's just say, the punch caught up to us and there was lots of dancing that I was sure looked great at the time, but is probably best left undocumented with photographic evidence.

On Halloween, we stayed in, I watched Hocus Pocus for what was realistically the 20th time this month, and past out candy to Trick-or-Treaters. Last year in the states we only had a handful of kids come by, so I was really excited to see so many kids out and about this year. The island lets a lot of the kids from Ebeye (the native Marshallese island next to Kwaj) come over to trick-or-treat, and it's a really big deal to them to get so much candy. I thought that made Halloween extra special. I tried to get a pick of all the kids out on the street in their costumes, but I felt a little creepy taking pictures of random kids....I thought their parents might find it creepy, and my explanation that I needed it to put in my online blog didn't help my creppiness factor. So I asked Johnathon to do it instead. This is what we came up with...

Hard to tell, but trust me...there were lots of people!

I really love Halloween, and I was a little worried that being all the way out here, and away from the cooler weather and all the fall activities, that it wouldn't feel right. Luckily, there was no shortage of festivities, and Kwaj really did Halloween right! (Special thanks to Leanne for hooking me up with pumpkin spiced latte's at Spartan Expresso TWICE!) Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween back in the states.