Dork city among the barren apple trees

Yeah turns out we basically just missed the growth season & the whole place was entirely wiped out. Not even one normal orange healthy pumpkin was left!

Geoff's fruitless (ha!) search

There were some cute eggplants growing, but they weren't ready for the pickin'

We did go home with this rad green guy though, so it was worth it! This, a tomato, & two jugs of delicious apple cider = less than $5!

George & Ryane got in not long after we got home. G&G with beer&Wii - that pretty much sums them up

My pretty orange roses were delivered for the centerpiece of our coffee table

We all went out to dinner & then headed to the patch to stock up on pumpkins for the party. We were all too full from dinner to get any of these treats :P

Love George's face here

Geoff is physically incapable of just taking a nice, normal photo with me

Wheeling the barrow

which we filled up rather quickly

Nothing says classy like gum hanging of your mouth

Back home, we started to get our carving on

George is a connoisseur on all things pumpkin flavored. I believe he approved of this beer fyi.

Ryane's showstopping jack-o-lantern was opened from the bottom

One of my creations, getting in character for the next night ;) George printed the stencil for me, yay George!

Some last minute jacks

Kicking back while Amanda did my hair, creating the most perfectly cute bun ever!

My cupcakes which Ryane helped me decorate. The sprinkles were being jerks & would not stick to the frosting, so we kinda half-assed these. People still thought they were too cute to eat until I started forcing them down their throats though, awww thanks guys.

Finally! After months of costume preparation, it all comes together!

Miss Bell! This photo best exemplifies the amount of sparkles covering me from head to toe, thanks to Walmart for the surprisingly great $1.99 can of spray glitter!

Off to Never Never Land! Geoff made his entire costume [well, hats, shorts, & shoes anyway] himself, give him some props please.

Wasting time before people started showing up, including Anne with the far superior camera. You'll see a huge leap in photo quality in a second.

This represents about 5% of the actual amount of drinks we had & which were consumed

The Green Fairy & The Black Dahlia

Hooray for Miss Annie & better photos! I asked her to take snapshots of the decor without the flash since my camera is hopeless in those situations. Everything was really dark & dim, and you can't tell that at all in the flash photos. Wanted you guys to get a better feel for the ambiance :)

Second year in a row that I think hardly anyone noticed this, haha

Orange lights in the living room, which had a pumpkin theme

black purple lights in the haunted house style bathroom

This looked a lot scarier in the dark!

Green lights in the kitchen, where everything was evil scientist lab style

Treat table. Barely anything had been touched yet and of course Geoff's sandwiches are already almost totally cleared out! They're always a big crowdpleaser. Don't mind my creepy clawhand, guh!

The graveyard in the dark

Our creations on display!

And again from the opposite angle!

Ok time to check out some guests & their wonderful costumes! I know that's what you're all here for! I tried to post everyone, but some people never had nice posed pictures taken of them showing off their stuff.

Ali as Janet Leigh in Psycho (my idea, her awesome execution)

Keith & Jenn as Ken & Barbie Dolls! Freaking adorable, Jenn looked JUST LIKE Barbie!

Steve, Angie, & Joe as the Pulp Fiction crew! The boys' costumes were a surprise and so amazing! It'd been a long time since I'd seen the movie, so I didn't remember these outfits right away, but holy crap they TOTALLY nailed it. Plus how awesome does Angie look? Ahhh.

Steampunk George. Wish you could see his pocketwatch better, it was so cool. And Ryane did this amazing makeup around his goggles, so when he took them off these was an outline of where they'd been.

(Jonah)Jack & (Amanda)Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Then they got fell, got totally beat up and all bloody & broken.

Betty as Sally, whaaaat! She made this entire thing by hand, including the wig! Almost inconceivable. I practically hyperventilated when I saw the incredibleness of it all. And somehow she had time to make my costume AND her boyfriend's as well?!

I finally got to meet Anne's Tibetan Monk boyfriend Nik! :D And there's little miss Amelie herself!

Twoheaded Lee, hahaha oh my gosh so good.

Andrea's incredibly detailed & creepy & awesome half woman-half man creation. Are you starting to understand the level of skill our friends were bringing?

Jeff's Nurse Joker completely made my life! No really, he was acting like he didn't know what he was going to do & I was so disappointed because he always has great costumes. All the way up until he was getting ready in our bathroom, we thought he was being lame. But really he was just messing with Geoff & emerged with this masterpiece!! Even better in person because he takes on the whole persona. Ahhh thanks Jeff, this was one of the highlights of my night!

Leo & Jeff as a pirate and Caesar. Leo had to come over after his work shift, at like midnight or something, so it was super cool of him to make the effort and still show up.

Who me? I'm just your pixie hostess!

This was when I realized our orange lights around the front window had crapped out, great timing!

Hey Ali, you spilled a little bit of red wine on yourself.

Geoff couldn't get over Andrea's masterpiece

Ali's poor friend Gage was a pimp, but in the lighting, his suit completely looked GREEN so we all thought he was a leprechaun! Oh & check out Betty's Steve in his Hugh Hefner getup, complete with sprayed gray hair!

A better glimpse of Hef (yeah she made that coat too!)

Cutiepie French girl about to crack her crème brûlée!

Four heads are better than one!

I really admire Jenn's dedication to posing Barbie-stiff for all photos!

The only sammies I got my hands on that night

You can imagine how many people I crashed into with my wings, hahaha

I hope this is how you wanted this to look Angie! I can send you the original if this wasn't your vision, but I think you look supercute!

Fans of fantasy!

Gotta love the gun on the table

gnome-loving

pouty Tink & her bloodied sisters

Disney girls! I definitely think our Betty-made costumes are far superior the official licensed ones (and possibly even the ones they characters wear at Disneyland!)

Think Tink!

So so so good!!! You may remember that he was normal Joker last year, way before the hype. Go Jeff Go.

Angie disappeared for awhile & came back a little under the weather, uh oh!

Need a hand?

I was making George show Ali the different facets of his headgear

Very flattering shot I know, but I wanted to show my reaction to the smell of Geoff's beer. Guess I'm not a fan of Beck's, even when I'm already drunk!

Boogying to some of our groovilicious Halloween music

"Iz happier to check tings out from the saftey of the bedroom window"

The blondes being blonde icons

Our classic Halloween costume foursome, going 10 years strong!

Monica took G, G, & J on a beer run, I hope the fellow shoppers were amused/in awe of the boys in costumes!

Ali's friends know the whole Thriller dance, AND Nick was dressed as Michael Jackson. Win win.

Firepitting

Tink's switched drinks

Dancing to the Buffy theme song like we used to when it was still on the air. Actually, Ali & I would dance & sing it, while Amanda got annoyed with us, but this time she joined in the fun.

Brother!

Providing the other head with a tasty beverage

Profile of a steampunk

Me continuing to freak out over Jeff. Yes his hair was even green under the wig.

Ali's knife got a lot of play that night

Three best buddies

Jeff was making Geoff laugh so hard he choked on his beer & kinda gagged/puked, hahahah

Ryane looking flawless even well into the night!

wormies

Ali thought it would be hilarious to decorate my wings. Later on someone stuck a magnet on them too, haha thanks guys.

Getting some spiritual guidance on how to heal his wounds

The girlfriends of the prior photo's boyfriends

Oh man, seriously so so so good! Joe even had the book & Steve had a briefcase

If I had to guess, I would say this is him rocking out to "Who Are You" in the same style he does when we watch CSI.

"What do you mean this wig doesn't look good on me?"

At least it matched Nik's outfit

Goodnight gnomies!

The day after. I would say this is the sign of a pretty rocking party. Also, after I passed out, the people who were still standing formed an assembly line to get all of these bottles out to the garage! Are our friends the best or what?!

I have no idea how we're going to top this next year!