Dia de Los Muertos

For Halloween Daisy thought about being Rocky's doll, Baby Jesus, but we decided instead to go for a family costume.
So, instead we went with the most obvious choice...
Goldilocks and the three bears.

We dressed up to run my favorite race of the year, the Monster Mash. Brandon pushed the girls the whole 5K. They were very interested in the variety of costumes. I didn't get many pictures but there was a whole family dressed as grapes, including their dog and a pretty amazing Marie Antoinette. There were several people who notified us that Rocky had lost her hat. I guess I can't blame them for not figuring out that her regular church garb had taken a part time job as a Halloween costume.

It was fun to have my friends waiting for me at the finish line. Laurie and Lindsey are two of my favorite people and that is exactly what you need after a fast run.
By the way, Laurie is dressed like a Halloween Hippie and should not be confused with a real Eugene Hippie. If you are looking for a Eugene Hippie you need to just follow the scent of pot until it mixes with B.O. If you still aren't sure you'll know immediately if she has dread locks and/or is not wearing a bra. They can easily be found outside of Sundance Foods or the downtown library.
I'm down with the real hippies too, but Laurie is much better looking, and a lot faster.



For the various Halloween parties we put Rocky in her tutu so that she could prance around like a fairy.

Which, she did until she collapsed on the couch in a candy-binge stupor.

Daisy played the role of the baby bear with a quiet, sincere dignity, which is rare in a child her age, especially one who is in a ridiculous hat.

To celebrate the Day of the Dead our branch had a fiesta. I went ahead and made an authentic Mexican dish to share at the party and for Brandon to take to his students.

Yep, cupcakes. We really pulled out all the stops.


I can't have a Halloween post with out including the picture of my jack-o-lantern. I love carving pumpkins.

It may look like it has no face, that is because it has no face. I am tempted to claim that it was an artistic expression of existentialism because that is the kind of crap that would make sense in a college town, but the truth is that I completely forgot to finish it. I cleaned it out on Saturday morning and I was planning on brainstorming about the face I would like to carve. I had a whole bunch of other things that I was supposed to do and it completely slipped my mind. I didn't even realize until Sunday evening and by then we were headed out the door and it was too late. I think this is a new low, even for me.