Halloween Friday

yes, i said halloween.

so today was several things at work. first off, it was incredibly busy. but more importantly, today was the 3rd annual artist pumpkin decorating contest. mine's the little guy you see in the picture up there. i wasn't planning to make a face at all, but rather to just have a design of mismatched pumpkin pieces. (i was swapping pieces back & forth between a white pumpkin and an orange pumpkin.) but then i decided it looked like he had eyebrows. so i made the eyes & then realized i didn't have a lot of room for a mouth. so i think he kinda looks like a ninja turtle vampire. i call him franklin.

today was also the employee costume contest. everyone voted for one guy & one gal "best costume". i'm pretty sure jeff will win. only about 4 guys dressed up, and jeff had 'em beat hands down. due to his uncommon height, jeff can wear just about any "scary" costume and seem scarier than anyone else wearing it. this year he was dead. or, as was the case was at our painfully slow lunch, he was "dying to eat". lots of gals were dressed up. most notably, i think, was kathy in her whoopie cushion costume. although she looked like a big stomach from the back, she was definitely a whoopie cushion - sound effects and all. i was, of course, a pirate. april was a nerd. and paula even joined the fun dressing up as a flapper. there were more, but those were the important ones. we'll hear on monday who won the vote.

and of course, no halloween is complete without small children parading about & asking for candy. so all work pretty much halted at 3pm as a good chunk of the employees brought their kids in to beg for sugar. best costumes? patti's girls - maya with her mommy-made butterfly wings, and elly as a sparkly purple unicorn. dave's little boy davey made a pretty adorable spider, too.

curious to see the day for yourself? check out the photos here. the pumpkins are named by artist - for those of you who know the artists. :) oh, and kathy's shrek pumpkin won. jeff's mummy came in second.