Happy Halloween!

When did Halloween get so complicated? It seems like all we did yesterday was run from one thing to the next, and got home exhausted. I guess it's all worth it, though, because the kids had a great time.

I really get into Halloween. Last year I won the costume contest at work with my Jack Sparrow costume. So I really talked up the contest, and this year, people came at me with much more competition than usual.

We had a Jack Skellington. This is Zac. He is our in-house artist that paints all our backdrops. He made a costume for his daughter to be Sally and they went together.

This is a girl named Lis. She came as Slash from Guns N Roses fame. She looked pretty good, too, although she needed to borrow one of our Guitar Hero guitars to complete the look.

We had Poison Ivy, from Batman, and Joe Dirt. He even brought his own can of Pam spray. (It's actually a girl named Amanda.)

Needless to say, we had a good time. However, when it all came down to it, I ended up taking second place to a girl named Corie. She came as Medusa, and when you see her costume, you'll know why. It was amazing! I didn't feel bad taking second place to her. The scales on her arms and legs are airbrushed on, and it was textured, as you can almost see from the pic.My costume wasn't so bad, either, though. I was the requested other participant in many a photo at the party. I went as Wolverine this year. For those of you who don't live close, I've been growing my hair and beard for about six weeks to pull this off. According to most people, I did a pretty good job of it. So what do you think?

This isn't the greatest picture. I'll have some of the people that I work with send me some of the ones they took, but this was at about 10 last night, and we were tired. I think I did alright.

We went with a super hero theme in our family this year. It works for us to do a theme together. Last year we were all pirates. Here we are this year.

Jamie hates this picture. It's not the greatest. We had our neighbor take it at the trunk or treat, and I don't think they even own a camera. But i think Gigi and Granny took some better ones, so we'll keep watch. I'll post individual ones at the family site. What a day!