Tales from the dark side……..

We live in the best neighborhood.  Ever.   So, yesterday I called around to see if a few neighbors wanted to join us for pizza and snacks before we went trick-or-treating. 
The kids looked so cute…….we had a surgeon……
matching 1970’s disco chicks (be still my heart)……..and matching Lucy’s from Prince Caspian….
a soccer player,  a character from Star Wars with the best light saber ever.
munchkin and the scarecrow from Wizard of Oz…..
my poor neighbor Cihat who I conned into wearing this black mullet.   (As a side note, I have a small obsession with mullets.   This is not the first time I’ve bought one and tried to make Stevie, or anybody, wear it.  I don’t know where this comes from…….I love bubba teeth too.   I put them in everyone’s stocking one year for Christmas and told them they had to wear them through all the morning pictures.   Maybe I’ll try that with mullets this year!)
and then there was princess Jasmine…..
and a grim reaper and Dorothy and Toto and Ariel and a hip hop dancer (no,not just me…a real one)
And my neighbors the Jett’s came walking up the street looking like this.  This my friends you should not take for granted.  A whole Wizard of Oz family Halloween.  This is the stuff I dream about.  Stevie in a munchkin suit……it’d send me right over the edge.  Paul and Jeannie and Jackie and all their children pull this off well.   Back in an earlier post,  I talked about how Dorothy (really Polly, but she’s all in character and gets mad if you call her Polly today) switches her f’s for h’s and we didn’t want Jeannie to fix it (Jeannie’s a speech pathologist) and Jeannie agreed that for now it was ‘hunny’ and she’d leave it alone.   Well, Polly is about to turn four……which in Polly-speak sounds like “hore”  so Jeannie,  the party pooper she is,  is gonna fix it.   Hello, I’m Polly and I’m ‘hore’.    It would be ‘hunny’ Jeannie.
this is the kinda neighborhood you only dream about…..where good witches roam around and Dorothy clicks her heel together and says,  “There’s no place like home,  there’s no place like home”……
the disco chicks are so chic in their white go-go boots.  What I wouldn’t have given when I was their age for a pair of boots like that.
and Gracie–or should I say Lucy  led the trick-or-treaters  in their search for candy heaven.
Notice my feeble attempt at festive with  the dark nail polish.  Lame,  I know.  But in my mind, I was all dressed up.  If Stevie would humor me, I could come up with many-o-costume.   I wanted to dress up like Cher and sway and toss my hair and sing ‘I Got you Babe’.   
Then Leigh Ann and I had the discussion about appropriate shoewear for trick-or-treating. One of us had on these shoes……
and the other one had on these.   I’ll let you decide who chose heels for all this walking extravaganza.   Cute boots though, huh?  
and BTW,  Leigh Ann,  you’re already thinking like a blogger,    you might as well start one. Come on!
Then the girls and I made our annual trip to Kimmie’s house.   Kimmie was our nanny for three years and as you’ll see from these photos,  she’s the ring leader of quite a fun troop.  We miss her dearly.  Their family wins first place for most festive family in the world.   They all dressed up and her house was dark and spooky with lots of candles and fog and even dry-ice in the punch…..
Cara and Drew  were adorable too.   You gotta love a guy who’ll wear this wig all night and enjoy it!
and Lacey and her boyfriend were quite scary and goth looking.  I need to see if she’ll do my makeup the night of the Twilight premier!
I couldn’t stop looking at or taking photos of this.   Sheer entertainment.
then there was her son Ryan, who was a hillbilly sheriff and kept saying to everyone, “I’m  the laaaww.   It iis wut it iis”.   You think I’m kidding but I’m not.   All this….at one house.  

and here they are in all the glory.   Another unbelievably funny Halloween at the Miklosovic’s.

Hope you had a fun, safe night too!  Did I mention that between them all, they have seven dogs….which were also all dressed up!  It was like Halloween on steroids!!!!