Happy Halloween!

It was a busy Halloween month, as always. Here are a ton of photos that capture the fun.

William was really, really into Halloween bingo. 

Beatrice reading a Halloween book while "Nightmare Before Christmas" plays in the background

William watched a few minutes before declaring it "too scary."

Reading "The Five Little Pumpkins" to Sancho

Halloween store selfie

Beatrice as a ghost

 We took the kids to Underwood Family Farms to get pumpkins:

Beatrice pre-sketched her Halloween banner design at school so she was ready to go when she got home.

William was a T-rex.

Yep, more Halloween bingo

The very impressive haunted house at the elementary school Halloween fair

Carving pumpkins:

This year Arthur got to use a real knife (Beatrice declined and asked me to carve it for her).

Impersonating a T-rex at his preschool Halloween parade and party

Halloween parade

Then, at least, trick or treating:

Beatrice was a banshee.

Arthur was a skeleton.

 William reading Five Little Pumpkins to Sancho:

And dancing along with his beloved "dancing ghost," a desk decoration at Arthur's daycare:

Halloween 2015

As always, we were very, very busy during the month of October.

We did tons of crafts and activities with the kids, everything from decorating gingerbread haunted houses to making haunted forts.

 

 

 

The haunted fort, under the dining table

 

The kids went to tons of parties all over the city, including a big party at my friend Wendy's house and school parties, parades, and fundraisers.

 

 

Some scenes from the pumpkin show at Descanso Gardens:

I was also so proud of Beatrice and Arthur for going on the Haunted Train Ride at Griffith Park. It was really scary! (for little kids, anyway) but they were incredibly brave and loved it.

 

Some scenes from the train ride:

 

 

And of course, it wouldn't be Halloween without a trip to the pumpkin patch. My parents were in town to help me take all the kids to Underwood Family Farms for the day.

 

My dad ready to catch William

  

 

 

He found a rotten pumpkin he insisted on playing with

My dad and I looking confused in the corn maze

In addition to all the kids' activities, I did a ton of adult Halloween activities, including haunted houses and tours, ghost-themed plays, horror movie screenings, and even a private ghost tour, when my friend Jillian and I rented a party bus and hired Richard Carradine, head of GHOULA, to give 30 of us a private haunted tour of Los Angeles. And on Halloween at midnight, I went with my friends Zoe, Jascha, Lilli, Loren, and Aaron to a screening of The Rocky Horror Show (I went as Janet).

 

Brad and Janet

Me and Aaron as Rocky

Zoe as Dr Scott

The most fun I had all month, though, was carving pumpkins and then trick or treating with Julie and the kids.

Ready to head out

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween! I can't wait for next year . . .