I do believe in spooks

Happy Halloween everyone. I haven't been posting too much lately, but today I am happy to celebrate my 200th post. Wahoo!

I've been a slacker photographer lately. I think I must be recovering from all the photos I took in Alaska. Maybe it's because everything just seems so mundane in suburbia after 3 weeks in the Great Last Frontier. But better late than never, here are pictures of the spooky pumpkins that the kids carved with Dejah last week.

A bat flying over the moon, a spider hanging out under his web...

...and Ian's broadly grinning spook.

I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do!

Tricks n' Treats

Here is Hobbes, Broom Hilda, and Darth Leopard at the obligatory (yet somehow compellingly convenient) Trunk or Treat activity. They are trying to look menacing to scare away other kids so that they'll be more candy left for them (or maybe the sun is just in their eyes.)

Here is the ever-charming Good Witch Lisette. Saffron is conspicuously missing from the photos because she refused to get into her little lion costume. Oh well.

We skipped neighborhood trick or treating and instead went to Grandma and Grandpa's for a little Halloween party. We ate donuts from a string, bobbed for apples, and drank witch's potion (Crystal Light with dry ice.) Deja and Brian were there and we all had a good time.

I forgot to bring our camera, but we played with Grandma's nice new digital camera. Talk about features, this one's got 'em! It makes my poor camera look pretty sad. Amy also got a new camera and the pictures on her blog look fabulous! Sigh. We'll have to upgrade our camera someday.