Halloween is, and always has been, my favorite secular holiday (even more than Armistice Day or Arbor Day!). Why, you ask? Two words: sugar and costumes. Few human celebrations have the potential to bring us closer to our existential base natures--for during this fiesta of the macabre we get tripped up on candy and parade around in fanciful facades! All Hallow's Eve '06 delivered on all of these crucial elements. Watch yourselves, Halloween haterz... Do you realize who you're messing with? The
bonafide crypts and bloods! Not to mention vampires, werewolves, pirates, witches, ghosts, nerds, and ironing boards...
Meghan and I dressed up as Jim and Pam from the Halloween episode of The Office. Folks either got our costume or they didn't. The most common guesses amongst the ignorant about my costume were a domino, a musical scale, and a polka-dotted man...
Katie and Will made quite the nerdy team. Let's leave the rumors that this photo spawned for another occasion, shall we?
"Who ya gonna call?" Shirley and Rachel, of course.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Heidi and Molly. Props on the costume sewing skills!
Swag was none other than fellow wardie Shirley Escobar through the power of her trademark glasses, apron, oven mitt, and missionary copy of the Book of Mormon.
The pumpkins Meghan and I carved. I was a typical former geography major and fashioned the gourd's features from political boundaries dear to me. The eyes are Michigan and Utah. The nose is Ecuador. The mouth is Virginia. Meghan went with a more traditional "normal" look for her jack o' lantern. I guess it's a personality test of some kind... We toasted the seeds afterwards. Tasty!
Mom showed off her mad domestic skillz by creating this haunted chocolate gingerbread house complete with a brownie graveyard and an internal fog mechanism.
Megs has nice teeth. But this juxtaposition really isn't needed to underscore that fact.
This is why Katie Deibel should be kept away from sharp objects when she's in the presence of rotting gourds...
Baby Emma was a CareBear. Ain't she darling?
Meghan and I dressed up as Jim and Pam from the Halloween episode of The Office. Folks either got our costume or they didn't. The most common guesses amongst the ignorant about my costume were a domino, a musical scale, and a polka-dotted man...
Katie and Will made quite the nerdy team. Let's leave the rumors that this photo spawned for another occasion, shall we?
"Who ya gonna call?" Shirley and Rachel, of course.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Heidi and Molly. Props on the costume sewing skills!
Swag was none other than fellow wardie Shirley Escobar through the power of her trademark glasses, apron, oven mitt, and missionary copy of the Book of Mormon.
The pumpkins Meghan and I carved. I was a typical former geography major and fashioned the gourd's features from political boundaries dear to me. The eyes are Michigan and Utah. The nose is Ecuador. The mouth is Virginia. Meghan went with a more traditional "normal" look for her jack o' lantern. I guess it's a personality test of some kind... We toasted the seeds afterwards. Tasty!
Mom showed off her mad domestic skillz by creating this haunted chocolate gingerbread house complete with a brownie graveyard and an internal fog mechanism.
Megs has nice teeth. But this juxtaposition really isn't needed to underscore that fact.
Baby Emma was a CareBear. Ain't she darling?
1 comment:
I think Steve needs a wig, then his costume would have been complete. In other news, I'm not a huge fan of halloween. Sorry.
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