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Happy Halloween!!! Updated

I’ll be honest. I wasn’t looking forward to this “holiday”: dress up the kids, dressing them up in costumes a couple times, dressing up Meredith, taking Meredith all over the neighborhood, dealing with all the other rug rats at the door, carving pumpkins, and we were planning on having some family in town to visit for the first time. Sounds like the start of a drinking problem to me…

The day started out really well. When the sun finally came up, it was bright outside! A good start. The Iowa Hawkeyes were set to play at 11 am. When game time finally came around, something didn’t feel right. Iowa won the coin toss, but chose to defer to the second half and kicked off…they always take the ball when they win the coin toss…what the heck do I know? Captain Kirk hasn’t let us down yet…then Indiana went right down the field and scored. Argh!!! Everything they did went poorly from that point moving forward; penalties, dropped balls, mistakes, turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. It was just ugly. Then the fourth quarter started and the Hawkeyes flipped the switch and ran wild. I have no idea how they did it. It turns out that the wind played a big role in the outcome of the game. Most of the turnovers took place when a team was going in to the wind and all the big plays came when a team was going with the wind. Guess who had the wind at their backs in the 4th quarter? Maybe Captain Kirk had it figured out from the start when he deferred to the second half. I don’t know. All I know is that they’ve taken 10 years off my life this season. We’re still #4 in the BCS and we need to win out. Let’s not take Northwestern lightly this weekend. If we manage to take care of our own business in Iowa City, it would be really cool if LSU to beat Alabama this weekend.

After the game was won, I started in on the remainer of my pumpkin carving duties. Turns out that I’m not too bad…see all of my work here. I would have done more, but ran out of time.

As night drew near, we started to dress up the kids. We had a bunch of people around. I think at one time, we had nearly 20 people in our living room. It was nuts. We had a family give us some outfits for our gang of little animals. We started by dressing up our little wild things. See them here. After that was over, we added Big Sis to the party with her outfit. Meredith was the Cat In The Hat and it matched up perfectly with our Thing 1-5 Onesies. We had another family make some blue wigs to make the reference to the Dr. Seuss classic complete. Prior to Halloween, Meredith hated her costume, but once she got outside and saw all the other kids in the neighborhood, she just ran for blocks, literally. She wouldn’t stop yelling “trick or treat” and “knock, knock, who’s there” in the middle of the street. She had her stereotypical plastic pumpkin for collecting candy and shook the living day lights out of it the whole time. To top off the night, she had shoes on that squeaked every time she took a step. I can’t do it justice; you just had to be there. She had so much fun!!!

After mom and dad finally screamed, “Uncle,” we headed back home to take care of our 5 other little animals. Meredith helped grandma hand out candy to all the other kids that came to the house. We had about 75 kids in total come to the front door. We gave out our last pieces of candy to a few dumb ass high school kids that came to the door at 10:30. Guess they thought that because my light was on at 10:30 it was ok to ring the damn door bell. I forget that I was a dumb ass high school kid once too. You may ask, Heath, why didn’t you turn off the front light. Well, I never turn them off. Safety first! I keep them on all night so that our nighttime volunteers can see their way in to the front door in the middle of the night.

Halloween was a big day this year and I can see how this is only gonna get bigger in the years to come! I just hope that the Hawkeyes don’t manage to kill me before 3 in the afternoon in the years to come.

Until next time…