Halloween

I've not posted anything here for about a year and a half. Most likely, I decided that it'd just be more fun to keep up with people on Facebook instead of writing long-winded stuff on this blog. But, Darrel came across my blog a couple of weeks ago and suggested that I start posting again. I figure it can't hurt anything, so, here we go.

This year, Emma decided she wanted to be a character out of the Mighty Boosh - a Hitcher Henchman. Darrel and I warned her that no one would know who she was, but she didn't seem to mind. I thought I'd do it too, since the Hitcher has 2 cockney henchmen. So, we bought some black hats, green face paint and peppermint life savers. I sewed some strips of white onto our black shirts, we made "polos for the eye" and we were ready.


Darrel took a quick trip into Spirit Halloween, and came back with a raven and a hat. He put the former onto the latter, a black mask onto his face, and donned a trench coat, and he was ready. He wasn't really sure what he was, but he looked really good.

We wore our outfits to a party at Holly, Shane and Chloe's house. No one knew who any of us were, but we had a good time anyway. Their parties are always great.


Halloween also means the Lee Elementary Carnival. Hundreds of children, hopped up on sugar, running around the school. Emma decided to lose the green face paint for the carnival. Darrel and I don't typically dress up for it, but did this year. I went for an easier witchy-type thing this time, as I didn't want to spend the entire night trying to explain to people about this obscure British comedy. I think I made the right choice.


We saw very little of Emma at the carnival. When she was in kindergarten, she was attached to my knee. No longer. She got her tickets from us and then she was off, running around with her friends.

Halloween day was spent getting the house ready and carving our pumpkins. It was Darrel's turn to take Emma around the neighborhood, so I manned the candy bowl in my witch get-up. Emma took over when she came back, and we had a pretty good crowd this year. A few little ones were quite frightened by us. A successful Halloween all the way 'round.