Is it too late to blog about Halloween?

In the aftermath of the Thanksgiving holidays, I thought it would be appropriate to... catch you all up on our Halloween. Actually, it is with a heavy heart that I must report that this year we did NOT have a kickin' party or super creative killer homemade costumes or any other mad Halloween festivities, so that is why I've been dragging my feet to slap these pictures on the good ol' blog. All four of them. We DID end up sticking with the family theme costumes, though I think this will be our last year since there are just too many of us. We wore these to the ward trunk-or-treat and... that was the extent of our Halloween celebrations. We didn't even decorate the house this year. We are sorry, Halloween, for brushing over you as if you were any another day of the week without any fanfare or pomp & circumstance or general... spookiness. We'll try to do better next year. And, that pretty much sums up how bad I feel about it.

We were: (left to right)
A bug catcher, a ladybug (she'd already shed her costume by the time I found the camera after having tossed it somewhere obscure in the car), a bumblebee, a spider, and a Very Hungry Caterpillar

(Note about Troy: the "Very Hungry" part was key, meaning... he & I spent most of the evening in the car nursing. That was fine though - it was a dark and chilly night!)

Um... Troy just wanted to show off those awesome antennae.

Spider... do you get it? Those are legs and a red hourglass and lots of eyes.

And now, I will submit my defense of why I have shamelessly abandoned the blog-o-sphere. Starting now with Reason #1.

Reason #1:
I can't get to the computer.
No I mean physically. I have to implement my mountain-climbing tactics from back when... I used to climb mountains. Okay who are we kidding? I never climbed mountains. Which makes it even harder for me (an average non-mountaineering citizen) to reach the computer and thus, harder to blog.
Our dear friends the Burnetts have moved away, canceling their apartment lease and its accompanying storage unit, which we shared with them. See where this one's going? Because I sure didn't. Not until moving day, anyway. We were sad to see them go, and we were less help than we would like to have been since we suddenly realized we had to find a place for the mountains of stuff we had in storage. Our office was converted into a temporary storage area (we are on a waiting list for more storage) and I will BRAVELY show you a picture of the result...

IF...

IF you promise not to turn us in to that hoarding show on TLC.

This is a TEMPORARY arrangement, and may I again emphasize temporary?
I swear. It doesn't count as hoarding. I'm not emotionally attached to any of this stuff. I'm even more motivated to get rid of the excess than ever. (Example: I gave away baby swings to all of our Thanksgiving guests as party favors.) It's just that we do need/use a lot of this stuff!
And anyway, [most of] the rest of the house does not look like this.


I KNOW, right?
I would be mortified, but... I'm so far past that now.
I just wanted you to feel better about whatever room in your house is a bit untidy right now.

And now I have to climb back out of here because I'm not supposed to be blogging during the BYU vs. UTAH game!
(I'm about to be disowned from the family. I'm not even wearing blue today! Don't tell.)