Trunk or Treat

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

(Some days I feel like this when my Jedi comes to the rescue.)

As a child our family lived on the main drag of trick or treating territory, so Halloween has always been a big deal to me.  We would keep tally of the trick or treaters that came to our house and then pass out a king-size candy bar to every 100th trick or treater.  One year we had 3 thousand trick or treaters!  Yea, my parents were pretty much broke every year around Halloween time! 

So, this whole trunk or treating business is new to me and I was a little skeptical... 

The Halloween Gang

We used the force and got my brother to participate by putting McKay's Jedi Cloak on him, then gathered other Star Wars fans.  (By the way, McKay made his whole costume in high school from scratch!  He did an awesome job!  And the lightsabers he assembled just in time for Halloween.  You can read about that if you click here.)

 McKay was not wanting to share his lightsabers, so I stole one while distracting him.

Then celebrated!

The cuteness factor of the kids in our ward was kind of ridiculous so I had to include a few.

Remember little FUNgebob!

McKay always steals this child during church.

 As you can see, McKay is pretty adorable with him.

Below are the costumes we thought were just awesome!

Zorro and his Spanish Rose

The Incredibles!

Nintendo's Duck Hunt

Up

Marge Simpson

 They even had games for the kids!  Ok, I'm sold.  Trunk or treating is the coolest!  Way better than just trick or treating!

 The best part! - Passing out the candy!  We riddled off Star Wars quotes throughout, such as

"the force is strong with this one" or "it's a trap!"  Yea, we are kind of nerds.

 Some of the other trunks

 I love my little Jedi!

But that's not all folks!!!  This post got way too long so stay tuned to see what we did later that night!

FUNgebob!

McKay and I were hesitant to go to the pumpkin patch by ourselves without a kid, so we had one...

...on loan, of course.  We considered snatching a child from the park or something, but figured we might get in trouble, so opted for borrowing instead.  I babysit this little guy every once and a while and he is super fun!  As established previously, McKay is very good with kids, so my heart was melting a little bit here.  (One day, I kept telling myself)

It definitely made the pumpkin patch experience more of a treat for us.  This is the one McKay and I picked out.

Blond-haired, blue-eyed kid - yea, I know, he kind of looks like he could be ours.  Apparently you are not the only one that thinks this because we get it all the time when we are out with him.  I've just started saying thank you when people comment on "how cute your boy is".

 And isn't he though!

When we started carving our pumpkins I asked him what he wanted his to be.  He thought for a second, but only a second, then his eyebrows went up, his eyes got big, and he yelled "FUNgebob!" while throwing his hands up in the air and dancing around.  And so it became FUNgebob!

Happy Trick or Treating!

Stay tuned to see what our pumpkin turns into....wooooo

Tis the Season for Lightsabers

While McKay was at the academy, (despite him being there and me being in Utah) we would often embark on adventures together by phone.  So, once upon a day McKay called me up and here is sort of how it went:

McKay: Marielle, I need to make a lightsaber.  

Marielle: Oh really!  And why is that dear?

McKay: Well, because every REAL Jedi makes his own lightsaber.  

Marielle: ...and you want to be a REAL Jedi?

McKay: YES! So....you want to come to Home Depot with me then?  

Marielle: Of course, why do you have to go there though?

McKay: Because that is where I'll find the goods!

Marielle: Well then, let's do it!

Thus began our phone date and 2 hours later McKay sent me this picture:

This lightsaber is now prominently displayed in our apartment and every man that enters in begins to salivate when they see it.  One such man includes our rad friend JD.  For his birthday McKay took him on a shopping date so he too could become a REAL Jedi.

JD's wife, Rachel and I came along for the date, figuring we could pick up some super glue and maybe pick out a festive plant or something...which we did.

(I love ornamental peppers, or really any small foods for that matter!)
While our lovely little Jedi men took their sweet time rummaging through bolts of all sorts and the plumping aisle, Rachel and I started getting very bored, but more importantly, very hungry.  It was past noon and we had been there for over an hour and a half!

I attribute the next few photos to very low blood sugar and slight mental retardation brought on by prolonged exposure to Home Depot.

(We really considered buying these things.  Yea, I know, we were pretty bad off!  Our last few braincells in action!)

Well, hello there sassy little lady!  

Miss Adorable Face here rounded out the last half hour of our play time bringing the total time at Home Depot to 2 hours!

Then began the real fun for the boys as they put together their lightsabers.

I love the concentration on that face.  

It's like big boy Lego time with welders and man stuff!

We noticed the sister missionaries passing by and invited them up to join in on the fun.  They're kind of awesome if you can't tell!

The finished product.  McKay even made me one!  Now that is true love.

Bring it on Halloween!

May the force be with you!

Mail Time!

For the past few days McKay and I have been running to the mailbox every afternoon like giddy children in hopes of finding our exciting packages...

...And they finally arrived!

The postcards I designed to be our thank you notes for the wedding are here!  Now you know what I'll be up to for the next few weeks - lots and lots of writing for little Marielle!  I was jumping up and down when I got them.  They took a lot of waiting and designing, then frustration, and then waiting again.  

I am super excited to start writing thank you notes.  It's like mandatory arts and crafts time for me, while expressing our appreciation to the many fabulous people in our lives for their generosity towards us.

McKay had his package open and out before I even had a chance to grab my camera!

(Look at the smile on that adorable face!)

The next second he was all geared up already on his way to the gym to break in his new racquet.  McKay loves racquetball and is sort of intimidating to play with! - I usually hide in the corner of the racquetball court in the fetal position in fear of getting welts.  (Ok, it's true, I'm a little bit of a wimp!)

While he was gone the stamps and pens came out...

...and so began the fun!

Happy Writing!