Halloween

Halloween is not my favorite holiday. I'm just not big on all of the darkness of the day. We don't really "celebrate" it, but we do participate in the candy giving tradition. However, it never seems to fail that no matter how much candy we buy, we always run out. This particularly disappoints me this year, when chocolate is tasting SO good! I must admit that I broke into the candy a little early. Thank goodness I only bought it 2 days before.

Since we don't yet have our own kids to dress up, we thought we'd do the next best thing and dress up the dog.

Poor JJ. He really was a good sport about it. Actually, after a few minutes, he didn't even seem to notice he was wearing it. Maybe we should have taken him out trick-or-treating. Seems to me that would be about on the same plane as the parents who carry around 2 bags of candy - one for their toddler in a stroller and another for the baby in the car. Ugh!

Although we're too old to go trick-or-treating, Jason and I dressed up for a Halloween party at Tyler and Jennifer Curtis' house this past weekend and had a great time. Jennifer does a phenomenal job with all of her party decorations. She should seriously go into the party planning business :-) Although we just recycled from costumes from the past, there were quite a few very original costumes. Below are just a few pictures from the night:

Jason the pirate and I was a flapper

Lindsay, the beautiful butterfly and Erich (aka Slash from Guns and Roses)

Tyler and Jennifer - Dwight and Angela from The Office

Finally, one very cool thing that occurred tonight was after the short rain storm that started off the night, we were blessed with a double rainbow! It really was beautiful and made the whole night a little more "light".