That Thing We Call Halloween, plus bonus pics at the bottom

This Halloween is what Deg called DJ's first-second holiday, meaning it's the second time he's been alive for the holiday but the first time he can really do anything about it. I mean, other than being a ridiculously cute lobster.

Anyway...

It's me, so you know I went a little crazy with Halloween festivities and whatnot. I decorated the house, both inside and out, with cobwebs, tombstones, and skulls, but in a fun way and not a creepy way. I wish I would have taken a picture of the stuff inside, but... I did remember a pic of our front yard graveyard.

We also carved pumpkins, and in DJ's case, painted pumpkins. They got to hang out on the porch with Yorick, our skeleton.

And it's me, which means I had multiple costumes going on. Obviously necessary. First was my costume for dress-up Bunko. The girl who hosted in October did Hawaiian food and prizes, so I took that opportunity to pull out my best Hawaiian-themed Halloween costume:

Next, my friend Tina and I participated in the City of Henderson's Zombie Run 5k. DJ got to come with me because Deg had a work something-or-other, so he got to dress like a zombie, too. Don't worry, he had a blast with the whole thing. He was just getting into character here.

So then the real costumes came out. You know me - I made them and they are over-the-top and I love them. I had a few options and let Deg choose which option he liked best. He chose the story of Little Red Riding Hood, where I was Little Red, DJ was the lumberjack, and Deg was the wolf dressed like Grandma. Pictures obviously had to happen of all of that!

We won best costume at our ward trunk-or-treat, which makes that two years in a row for me. I've got a lot to live up to next year! Plus, and I will go ahead and toot my own horn here, we had a pretty neat trunk, too.

Our prize had all sorts of fun Halloween stuff, like treats, cups, straws, pumpkin carving stuff, tablecloths and other decorations, etc.

This morning, we celebrated Halloween with ghostcakes (ghost and spooky letter pancakes). Then we met up with Deg at his work for lunch/work Halloween party, and then it was off to the Mandalay Bay aquarium for me and the Deej, where they were doing a haunted reef thing and he got to trick-or-treat with the sharks (which are like his new favorite thing of all times).

Oh yeah, at some point I also made Halloween sugar cookies. Not enough sugar in this holiday already, right?

Skeletons in the shark tank!

He's really into sharks right now. Like, it's one of the few words he can say. He's got a shark towel and shark jammies, which is how it all started, so we'd sing him "Baby Shark" while getting out of the tub and into his jammies. He somehow knew they were scary because when we asked if he was a shark, he growled at us. So he got this shark at the aquarium today and wrestled it pretty much from the time we got home until we went trick-or-treating.

We trick-or-treated for like a second this evening and then went back to hand out treats at our house. DJ liked that better than trick-or-treating because he loves it when people come over and we let him run around the front yard like a madman for an hour and a half. Almost all of his neighborhood friends came to see him, so he really liked that.

We took DJ trick-or-treating to like 3 houses in our ward. I love this picture for many reasons. In no particular order: you can see Deg's wolf tail, it's a pic of DJ's first trick-or-treating, and these two are just so dang cute together.

Dear reader, as a bonus for reading/looking at all these pictures, I will show you my latest collection of pictures I like to call, "Seriously, Deej? This is your new photo face?"