Spooky Grover Halloween

Han Solo, Baby Wicket, and Princess Leia

I'm clearly very behind on blogging some important Grover family moments (including a first birthday party and a first camping trip for ole' Hollie-by-Gollie).

But this will have to do for tonight.

Behold: ye olde Grover family Trunk-or-Treat (and by "olde" I mean, the very first Trunk-or-Treat me, Dave, OR Hollie have ever been to).

This semester has been horribly hard, and we almost bailed on tonight. However, the day before yesterday, we decided that we were Grovers—I say! Grovers!—and Grovers celebrate their holidays with style! So we went to Hobby Lobby last night at 8:00 p.m. (fortunately the Holiday Hours were in effect and they didn't close until the uncustomary 9:00 p.m.), gathered the needed materials, and stayed up until 1:30 making costumes, grading, and cleaning what we could of the house.

We even sewed a furry ewok costume for Hollie which we then accidentally left at home when we left for the church parking lot. Oh, well. As it turns out, everyone still thought she was super adorable.

On the way home, we stopped at a Sonic for chocolate/banana shakes and 50 cent corndogs. Hollie sat in her carseat and read Eric Carle books to herself.

All in all, not too bad for a last-ditch effort.

She literally would not stop running around the church parking lot. She couldn't stop pointing and shouting at everyone dressed up—she loved it. And she loved stomping the leaves in the gutters. She truly is a spooky little Halloween girl.

Grover Family Star Wars Trunk

This was actually after our ewok began to slow down. Still moving, just slowly enough now to get captured in the same frame as one of her parents.

Happy Halloween, everyone!