Hallo-week!

Costume prep, carving pumpkins, school parties, neighborhood parties, school presentations...Sometimes it seems like Hallo-week instead of Halloween!

Gypsie Joie ready for ballet.  They got to go dressed up this week.  She also had a school party the next day.

The Board of Directors for Banchee Boo Camp...Jeran's groups presentation at school

Board of Directors surrounding Banchee Boo Camp Mascott, King Boo.

Close up of King Boo enjoying a lollipop.

Then pumpkin carving.

And more carving...

Nate hard at work

(Hair sprayed black for the school dance later that night.)

Super creative!  Good job, Joie.

Megan and her Cyclops jack-o-lantern both on the phone.

Nate went to the school Halloween dance Friday night.  

Funny, funny side story:  Jeran went the same night with a friend to a haunted house.  Megan chickened out and didn't go.  It turns out she would have been the only girl anyway.  Jeran's friend's mom took them for frozen yogurt instead.  She said she sat away from them, reading her book.  Jeran and company were in line behind 3 girls.  She noticed them checking out the girls and whispering about them.  The boys were trying to decide on pick-up lines.  Being novice 12 year olds, they went with one Jeran had seen on an iPod app.  "If you were a booger, I'd pick you first," Jeran blurted out the pick-up line (loudly enough that the friend's mom and everyone else in Frogurt heard).  When the friend's mom told me later that night, she was laughing so hard she could hardly talk.  As soon as we drove away from the friend's house, Megan said, "I'm deleting that app from your iPod!"  Good thing she's looking out for him.

Ready for trick-or-treating?  

Gypsie Joie; Boy Scout Megan...who really does scout for boys; Confused BY-Ute fan Jeran; Ghoul Nate...who sat outside and scared youngsters...and a cat. 

Tim has always had fun with clown costumes.  He used to drive home from work wearing a clown nose to see how many people would look at him while he was driving.

Tim ready to go out trick-or-treating with Joie and her friend, Emily.  They wanted to make sure Tim didn't "hang out" with them.  He told them not to worry, that he'd just follow them from a distance and keep an eye on them. Immediately Joie said, "Dad!  That's stalking!"  Joie and her friend can now say they were stalked all evening by a middle-aged guy in a clown costume.

They're all busy now counting candy...

Too much chocolate will make you sick!  Give your chocolate to Mom and Dad!