Halloween in January

Our neighbor across the street had a breakdown of sorts during hurricane Ike and after many weeks and problems has moved up north to be by her family. Our other neighbor Lee was put in charge of cleaning out her house and the amount of brand new, unopened stuff is crazy. We went over there before Christmas and she gave us a bunch of Christmas decorations and Owen picked out one of those obnoxious christmas things that sings when you push a button. For weeks he keeps asking to go back to "the garage" to pick something else out but I had been putting him off. So Lee shows up at our door today and asks if I want to get all of the Halloween stuff and we did but it was way more than we could ever want or need! I sorted through it and pulled out a bunch of stuff to Freecycle but I guess we're stuck doing Halloween birthday parties for the rest of Owen's childhood!!!

There were 200+ candles in the bags but I pared it down to a mere 50 :) There were a bunch of candles that would change colors when you lit them and of course we had to try them out. And Owen wanted to put some of the mugs we found around it so they could all watch.

The bulk of the stuff in the garage that Bryan cleaned out this weekend. He was SO happy to come home and see all of it in there!
And Owen wanted his picture with the new Halloween stuff and his big boy bike, The Painkiller. It's hard to tell in the little picture on here but he's making some crazy face because he thinks that's how you should look when you ride the Painkiller. And yes, we are looking for a new helmet because that one just doesn't match his cool new bike.

We're also slowly making our way through all of the crafty Christmas gifts. My boy loves that stuff!
Jenn, his most favorite non-related aunt in the whole world, sent Owen the Star Wars Wookie Cookbook for Christmas. Above are the Tie Fighter hot dogs.
And some Yoda Soda...

And the paint and cup set that Lita gave him. He just wanted to make sure if any of you guys come over, it's TOTALLY OK to use his new plate. But not the cup. That's the Hulshof cup written in "blood". Maybe we are a little too into Halloweeen...