Happy Halloween!

This year was Elodie's first Halloween in a family that loves wearing costumes and carving pumpkins. She was more than happy to do both and there are only pictures of her from today, but she's so cute and I don't remember to take pictures of anything else.  This was the first year in a very long time that I haven't dressed up, but I did make Elodie a costume and I think it turned out great.  She is the happiest, most smiliest, laughing, kissing, baby that I've ever met. So she went as "sunshine and rainbows" for Halloween this year.

we celebrated halloween last weekend with friends by going out for nightmare on m street, which was basically just us going out in dupont dressed up.  we met up before hand at elena's to finish getting ready and to get into the spiriting spirit.  hot spiced cider with applejack brandy was a-flowing.

i did sugar skull makeup and, though it took a while to get it on my face, it was a really fun costume to create.  i maybe should have used more colors, it kind of looks like a prettier version of my zombie makeup last halloween.

doing something to commemorate dia de los muertos made me feel like i was home in texas, but oddly not many people had any idea what my costume was.  still, i got a lot of compliments.

 eric was a handsome lumberjack.  i'm trying to get him to keep that beard growing so i can take a pic to submit to the beard collective.

the girls were the girls from clueless (except me and allie).  i think they look great!

while we were getting ready, eric made this lovely, obviously unofficial, commercial for simpler times, a cheap but yummy trader joe's beer.

 ^^allie, chris, and a blind ref?^^

we saw some pretty creative costumes throughout the night.  i was really impressed.  every once in a while i was able to stop someone for a pic.  some favorites below :)

^^these two were the best.  that girl was freaking us all out!^^

halloween is almost here! eric went with a hilarious shocked face, and i went with a design.  

even though i'm no great jack o'lantern master, i decided i was capable of carving this cool stamp design.  so i stamped it into a circle, taped it to the pumpkin, and got going.

with the pattern started on the pumpkin, we made a lid and cleaned it out.  bella likes to help - pumpkin is her favorite holiday treat - but you have to keep her away from the knife.

yum, raw pumpkin seeds!

one of the best parts of making jack o'lanterns is roasting the tasty seeds.  it's so satisfying to get glowing faces and a delicious treat that makes the house smell amazing.

obviously the stamp was way too detailed.  still i think it came out looking pretty cool!