Happy Halloween!

Kate's been in countdown mode all week: "Five days 'til Halloween!" "Just two sleeps 'til Halloween!" Then this morning: "Halloween! Halloween! It's today!" Bruce went all out on the pumpkin carving- a haunted house and a skeleton. Scary...

My sister-in-law Jill has a Halloween birthday, and Dave and Angie both celebrate in October, so we had a combo Halloween/birthday party at my mom's.

Dave wishes that his nieces would quit mauling him.

There's always that ONE PERSON at a party who gets wasted and acts terribly. It was Kiki tonight. She was high on sugar and out of control. She dug into the birthday cake with her bare hands and FEET. She had frosting between her toes. I fail to set appropriate boundaries when I think my kids are funny. Tough cookies if you don't think my kids are funny.

Kay and Jack

George came dressed as...oh, heck. These are his regular clothes. Too many punchlines, not enough time.

Eric the pirate

"Hi! I'm Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, and soon to be, well, still the governor of Alaska. This is my daughter." Daughter: "Abstinence only sex education worked for me!"

I did have a "real" costume for Kiki which she absolutely refused to wear. Fortunately, she didn't mind periodically stuffing a ball up her shirt and getting a good laugh. She even started to rub the ball through her shirt like it was a pregnant belly.

My cowgirl

Nacho Libre: The Horror Version
(Dan, Dave, and Ben)

Bruce's work does a HUGE trick or treat. People go all out turning their offices and cubicles into scary places, everyone dresses up, and then the families come trick or treating. Bruce sent the girls into an office to get some candy, saying, "Go get some candy from that scary man!", then quickly realized that the "scary man" was the husband of one of his employees and he was not actually in any sort of costume.

P.S. I know there has been some talk among us lately of the difficulties in blogger getting your pictures in the order you want and other issues, and I'm surprised that the the least technologically minded among us (me!) knows the answer: EDIT HTML. You can move your stuff around however you want and then just click back to "compose." Try it, you'll like it, and a good portion of your complaints will be taken care of.