Halloween

We brought the fun to the UK this year!  They don't celebrate Halloween in the fun way that we, as Americans, are accustomed.  The Brits are about 25 years behind America on Halloween.  They only see it as a scary, devilish holiday.  Therefore, all the costumes you see are scary and evil.  When we took the kids trick-or-treating, several houses had bowls of un-wrapped candy.  Only about 10 % of the houses were participating.
Never-mind the cultural lack of commercialized Halloween fun!  We had our own party and had a great time celebrating with our good American friends here in Oxford.
EC was a pink fairy and A was batman.  We had our friends Livia and Nick and their daughter S (the duck,) as well as Nick's mom and friend from the US.  Our friends Collin and Steph came with their daughters dressed as a princess and Nemo.  Our friend Laura and her son, dressed as a skeleton were there as well.

what a cute skeleton!

pink fairy and our super expensive bio-organic pumpkin

A is always trouble!

Daddy and batman

a duck's gotta keep her bill on

How cute is that Nemo costume?  Steph made the dress herself

Laura the Greek goddess

what cute kiddos

Who needs candy when you can have an apple?

trying to bring some Halloween decor!

Our dungeon kitchen was a tight squeeze!

the girls were situated near the chocolates

enjoying their chocolate dipped apples they decorated

Heading home from trick or treating

After our party, we went trick or treating.  What a fun night!