Happy Halloween

The weekend before Halloween, Linzi and I carved pumpkins with the Dodds Friday night, then the Pinkstons, Hilliers and Hawes on Saturday night. We actually got one of those kits with little saws and such to do some high class carving, and I think it shows (especially with the Best In Show displayed above). Before this year it had always been awkward looking jack-o-lanterns made by the biggest knife I could find in my parent's kitchen.


Then there was the actual night of Halloween...we had a great time watching some Halloween episodes of The Office, playing our annual match of Halloween Scrabble (sorry you couldn't be there with us Colleen), then throwing together these awesome costumes before we went over to the Andersons where we were introduced to that classic vampire flick, "The Lost Boys". It was pretty funny to see Keifer Sutherland in his pre-Jack Bauer days.

We only had about 10 trick-or-treaters come to our door, including the few teenagers not dressed up at all holding out their backpack. It's a tradition here to ask the trick-or-treaters to tell you a joke when they come to your door, so we were hoping that one of these teenagers could earn the candy they wanted. We asked one for a joke, and he just started saying "Oh man, I don't know" and pacing back and forth. We tried to help him by asking for any simple knock-knock joke, but even that was too much for him (remember, he's probably 15 years old) and he went back to his group of friends. That was totally not our intention, but it did kind of give us a chuckle...just one more reason to always have a good joke ready.