Halloweeeeen

Halloween hasn't really been too exciting for me since I stopped trick-or-treating. Yes, dressing up is always fun, but you can do that any day of the year. However, this Halloween was different. This year I had a cute little baby to dress up and an actual house for trick-or-treaters to visit! What an excellent holiday.

Here is Matt working so diligently on our pumpkin. I wasn't very much help -- I got as far as cutting the top open and then decided that playing with the baby was cleaner than scooping out pumpkin slime. But that's what men are for, right?

This was Matt's vision of our jack-o-lantern. He did a great job copying it, but we didn't get a picture of the real thing before it started to rot. Interesting fact: in Arizona, you have to wait until a day or two before Halloween to carve your pumpkins or else they shrivel up and turn black in the heat.

Here is my sweet little Tootsie Roll. We bought this costume a few weeks ago and I was soooo excited to dress Josh up! He didn't hate it as much as I thought he would, either.

The night before Halloween, our ward had a Halloween party. Instead of a "trunk-or-treat" like I grew up with, they just have people decorate the doors of classrooms around the church. Here we are sitting at our "doorstep" waiting for trick-or-treaters. Matt's sister Michelle is the one holding the baby.

I know, our costumes are lame (except for Josh's). Another last minute costume from the Snows. I'm actually wearing Matt's football jersey from high school. He's wearing Cardinals gear.

We had a bunch of friends over for a little party on Halloween. (That way we could party and hand out candy at the same time.) These are a bunch of Matt's friends from high school. We have Dr. Greg House, a ladybug and her flower, Mrs. Claus and a crying baby, a football player, Juno and Paulie Bleeker, a cowgirl and her hick boyfriend, a nurse, the Grim Reaper, and a construction worker (who is taking the picture).

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! Only 52 days 'til Christmas!