Candy, Costumes and the undoing of the "Scrinch"

What a festive week we are having in honor of one of my least favorite holidays. We have something to dress up for everyday this week with halloween ballet, school parties, trick or treating and ward parties. I didn't say I didn't like it. It just has a low rank in my feelings of holiday love. The following reasons may have something to do with it:

Marcus will pull on his winnie the pooh ears all night screaming that this is cruel and unusual punishment

Caroline eats nothing but candy all week and will be crying anytime she isn't

Camille doesn't know that we own a trash for candy wrappers

Savannah has a different costume planned for every event and half her room is devoted to her costume pile

Kennon excalated the begging for piercing her ears all in the name of a good gypsy costume

My kids have a bad habit of shunning their costumes at the last minute and being super creative, making their mother angry that they won't wear what she bought on clearance last November.
They will be dressing up a total of 5 times in 4 days so they should have ample creative opportunities this week. Savannah has a box of stuff she has collected through out the house and has all 5 costumes ready in there for the week.

Halloween is so-so for Kashann, but I just discovered this year it is tops for Brent. We were asked to be in charge of the Haunted House tonight at the church. Brent is thinking haunted house constantly even in the middle of his midterms the last couple weeks. He has loved planning it and loved spending our money on it. Every night he comes home with something new that we NEED.

If you know my husband you know this is completely not like him. He pretty much believes in not spending money on anything unless it is going to save you money. In Christmas's past I have given him a nickname - "Scrinch". I made it up after deciding that he was the Grinch and Scrooge rolled into one. So I am happy he finally found his passion and hoping that it will roll on through the holidays. Here is the running total:

(I might be a little off on $ because I am not the one actually pulling out the card, but this is close)

$20 black light- $20 strobe light -$30 Fog machine -$20 spiders -$10 Spotlight-$5 on fake blood -$5 fog liquid-$5 cobwebs AND $300 A new fireplace

The last one isn't an actual part of our haunted house but I am including it in haunted house expenses because he only went to the fireplace store to get free empty boxes for his Bat Cave, but then couldn't resist bringing home a full box.

And I am 100% on board with staying warm this winter so I didn't make him take it back.

As far as the other expenses go, I guess we are officially in the ward haunted house business for life. Doesn't pay well, but it's extremely entertaining for Brent and the kids.