Happy Halloween!

 Here are our simple decorations. For FHE on the first Monday of October we cut out bats and decorated the apartment. Bryan cut out so many bats he decided to turn on Wipeout. 

 On the Monday before Halloween we carved pumpkins (we didn't want to do them too early, else they would rot before the holiday!).

 (This was also my first day actually at work tellering for America First. See the little compass pin?)

 Like last year, I made a cat. It was just too classic to only do once! 

 Bryan's first top was too small... his next too big. I think it looks pretty cool, though. Like a puzzle! Speaking of puzzles...

Here is a puzzle we've been working on! It is a LOST Mystery Puzzle. We don't even know what it is supposed to look like but we've been having fun slowly putting it together. Back to pumpkins...

 Bryan made the Zelda Tri-Force.

 As mentioned, I made a cat.

 

Over the weekend we went to a couple parties with our friends. We dressed up as Napoleon Dynamite and Deb! All our clothes (my pants, shirt, fanny pack and his shirt) were a whopping $10 at DI! The wig was a little more... and it was weirdly shaped, too! I had to give his wig a bit of a hair cut to make it look right but it worked out in the end. Anyway, on Saturday we had Alicia come over and we watched the old (1959) House on Haunted Hill. It was a Rifftrax version so people were adding goofy commentary the whole way through. In the end I still didn't know if the house was actually haunted or if it was all human created. It had a lot of unresolved plot lines. I was baffled when the credits suddenly began to roll. Oh, well!

 

 We didn't do much for the actual holiday but I made stuffed peppers and carved little jack-o-lanterns out of them. I also tried to make mashed potato ghosts. The shaping didn't come out quite right (thanks for all the direction, Martha Stewart) but they sure did taste good! After that we went and saw Cowboys & Aliens with David, Weston and friend. I probably wouldn't buy the movie but I did enjoy it for a dollar.

We definitely enjoyed our low-key first Halloween together.