Halloween Festivities

Happy Halloween!

We have made it a tradition to carve pumpkins while listening to Doug Fabrizio's Halloween RadioWest shows on NPR. Todd had some spooky stories saved from years past and I was pretty freaked, i.e. I was glancing behind my back and leeringly looking out the window.
It was just what I'd want for Halloween.
Here are the pumpkins before:and after:From L-R: Todd, Henry, me.
We went to Todd's Comedy Sportz Halloween party dressed as the Three Stooges.
Can you guess who we are? Yep. Todd is Moe, Henry is Curly, and I am Larry. We had a whole quirky fight scene choreographed for fun, and also in case people needed a hint when guessing what we were dressed as.

I bet you can't guess which of the following pictures is of our family and which one is of the actually Three Stooges:


Here I am giving a shot at improve. Needless to say my act needs a lot of work.
I didn't get one laugh. I wouldn't have laughed at me. It was about 20 seconds of awkwardness.
(I now have a much greater respect for Todd and all the players.)Anyway, here is Todd as Moe and he is picking on poor Alice (in Wonderland). I mean, she was just trying to find her way!
This was a great party. We had Obama, Sarah Palin, Carmen San Diego, Maleficent, Jack Skelington, a monk, an easy-bake oven (a pregnant lady), a bee; Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, and a beaver; and much, much more.
Henry with Senator Obama. I know you're all jealous. Just kidding.
Henry, those are my thoughts exactly. Yikes!

We played a pumpkin-toss game and it was pretty intense. It was like musical chairs but instead of running around chairs you're passing a pumpkin, and not just a light one--it was heavy! Sadly I dropped it and didn't make it to the final round, but it was still fun.

And the winner was . . . the lovely Ginger Grant from Gilligan's Island!

It has been a great Halloween.

And we've only had 5 trick-or-treaters! Lucky us--we get lots of candy.