Enderman Invades

As spotted on our lawn, carrying a block of earth. For more information on these dangerous creatures, click here. UPDATE - her pic is now up on Endgadget, an image in the gallery, part of their Geekeist Halloween Costumes post.

Buckethead Zombie!

And the inspiration (from Plants vs. Zombies).

Halloween Block Party

With Halloween converging on a Saturday this year, the neighborhood's H.O.A. (Home Owner's Association) delayed the annual block party a few months - it usually occurs in June, just after school lets out.

Aside from our first Boulder condo, we've never lived in an H.O.A.-regulated neighborhood. When we first read the neighborhood rules, we just figured grin-and-bear it (technically you can't roll your trash out until after sunset the evening before trash pickup day). But thankfully it's a very relaxed neighborhood - this is North County after all - and the residents are super-cool.

And with that HOA comes a really nice block party, placed in a wide spot in the road a few doors down from us. With an inflatable "jumpy" and slide...
...both of which came deflated a few times when the circuit breaker tripped...
...adding to the excitement!
Plenty of meats...
...and treats...
...and dirty feets:
Even though Celeste was playing non-stop from 10 AM on, she was still able to trick-or-treat a large part of our neighborhood, along with two adjoining ones. Her plastic pumpkin is filled with sugary snacks - and that's good as we just threw out her leftover candy from last Halloween on Friday.

You know the jack-o-lantern's a goner...

...when you have to take it out to the trash with a shovel. Eeww.

Tricks or Treats

Celeste as a "VFD Crow", from Lemony Snickets' Series of Unfortunate Events books.

Lots of candy was brought home, we'll probably still have it come Easter...

Satanic Lunch for Allie

A Whopper, fries and a small shake - $6.66.

Keep Halloween evil!