for your viewing pleasure:

so, i realize that halloween has come and gone (and we are very much in the month of november now)…but I was downloading pictures from my camera last night, saw these…and decided that they just had to be shared (despite the fact that Halloween is very much over.). but- my neighbors still have their giant glowing jack-o-lantern suspended from the third story of their house…and my other neighbors still have the enormous inflatable dead witch on their porch, so I figured- I can at least post some Halloween pictures(?)

(side note: I have discovered that people really get into Halloween around here…my street has looked like a glowing orange version of Christmas for the past month…It’s endearing, but it kindof creeps me out a bit…) I just hope they stay this excited about the holidays in december….

anyways. (as professional-working-adults) of course we all decided it was very necessary to dress up for work on Friday…(please note tony’s costume- which I think was intended for a two-year-old) Carlyn is pippi-longstockings, and I’m supposed to be the Sun•Maid (I realize my lack of a bonnet kindof kills the costume. but, believe it or not…I don’t have an abundance of bonnets just laying around the house)

pippi. thomas. sun•maid.

we definitely all went out to olive garden for lunch looking like this.
and our waitress asked us if we were preschool teachers.
(…I’m not really sure if i understand how our costumes allude to the fact that we teach small children? but, we definitely were the only people in the entire restaurant who were dressed up.)

(uh....i don't think we were ready for this picture.)

but the best Halloween-costume-award definitely goes to little chub-chub. (our boss’s kids came by in their costumes…) and, really- how can you not fall in love with that little frog!