Since Halloween is our favorite holiday, this year Taryn and I hosted. We had my Mom & Dad, and Taryn's Mom & Brother up for the day. We spent the majority of our time carving pumpkins. We had bought 4 @ the Phillips Farms Pumpkin Patch the weekend before, and Cathy brought up another 5. Our place was pretty decked-out (see forthcoming post for details), and everyone was in the spooky spirit. Eli went through a plethora of outfits that day (mainly because we wanted him to get time wearing all of the Halloween clothes that we'd bought for him before he grew out of them, but also because he likes to peepee). He started in skulls, made his way through mummies, and ended up as a monkey. Unfortunately we didn't get nearly as many pictures as we should have due to all of the pumpkin carving.
But to begin the day, we brought out some of Eli's Halloween books and had spooky story time on the floor. We read The Nightmare Before Christmas and disney's Anthology of spooky stories. As you can see, it was a pretty good time.
Here's Eli in his mummy outfit watching his Mommy, Daddy and Uncle Kendall run around doing finishing touches before all of the Trick or Treaters showed up.
I was the only one to get into costume, so I got to answer the door each time it rang to hand out candy. Unfortunately, it was the same costume from last year (bummer), but it's still fun to get into full gorilla getup and go bouncing around the neighborhood. Eli didn't know what to make of the fur. I had to take the mask off to let him know it was really me.
We ended up having about 20-25 kids come to the door, which was a lot more than the year before. And I didn't frighten as many of the little ones this year. Which wasn't as cool, but I guess you gotta draw the line somewhere. 
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