Halloween

Richard's whole office at the newspaper decorates the entire building every year on Halloween. Each department chooses a different theme and the decorate and dress up accordingly. They bring in kids from boys and girls club and all the employee kids to trick or treat. Well I must say that the advertising department ROCKS every year (well at least both years we have been living here.) This year they did Harry Potter! They really transformed the place. When you walked in it was the great hall set to dine with owl hanging from the ceiling. They had a Hogwarts Express with train tracks leading "yikes" to Azkaban! Richards team had set up an Azkaban spook alley and they all dressed up as Dementors. If you escaped safely you got to see the hall of portraits. It was so clever, they set up a screen in front of the salesmen cubicles that looked like a castle wall with picture frames and "windows" where they could look out, and pass out candy. They were all dressed as deceased wizards and witches, my fav was Lily Potter! There was also the hospital wing, and loads of famous witches and wizards milling about. I think I enjoyed it more than the kids! Alas, I was so enchanted that I left my camera in the car in the parking lot, but I am going to try to get a hold of some pictures somehow.

On Halloween I was finally able to coax Rhett into the Tin Man costume I made for Ryker when he was almost 3. I used the same strategy on them both. I convinced them it was a robot costume. I still need to get a good one of him with that hat on. It was really quite adorable.

"Diego's" Halloween party at pre-school the day before Halloween.

Carving pumpkins the Monday before Halloween.

The pumpkin patch the week before Halloween

Me and the boys, at the ward party three weeks before Halloween.