Halloween 2005

Halloween is such a fun holiday for kids and adults! It gives everyone a chance to be anyone or anything but themselves. The last time my fiance and I dressed up for Halloween was in 2003, and we won the Best Costume award for dressing up in pajamas and putting fake blood on his pajama pants while I carried a bloody knife and a jar with apple juice and a hot dog floating in it. We were John and Lorena Bobbit and everyone thought our costume was so simple yet so genius. I was just glad that I got to wear pajamas the whole night and felt oh so comfortable in my house slippers!

Last year I wasn't feeling all that great so we ended up staying home. But this year, we plan on handing out candy to the kids in our neighborhood. This is our first Halloween in San Diego, and all of our family still lives in the SF Bay Area. I was kind of bummed that I wouldn't be able to attend my goddaughter's Halloween party so I could see all of my nieces and my nephew dressed up. My cousin was bummed also because she was hoping that my fiance could draw sketches for the kids at the party. I should have told her that he has a fee for his drawing services, but most likely she would pay us with some good food.

We hit up Target to get our Halloween candy but later on regretted our purchase there because we found better prices for candy at Walmart and Rite-Aid. Then we went to the mall and stopped at Pumpkin Station to pick up our pumpkins. We even invested in getting fancy carving tools with cool patterns that you can transfer onto the pumpkin to make it look like you're an expert. I haven't been to a pumpkin patch in ages and it was fun to go around and look for the perfect pumpkin. I think a pumpkin patch is one of those places that always makes you feel like a kid again when you visit, kind of like Disneyland.

If you look to the right of my blog, you can see the pictures of the pumpkins that we carved last night! I think they turned out better than I expected, and it's by far the best job I've ever done! My fiance is the great artist between the two of us and it made me feel wonderful when he told me that he loved the work I did on my pumpkin!

Well, I hope you have a great Halloween and please be safe!