Happy Halloween to you all!  Since we moved out of deep suburbia (into, well, urbia) we don't get quite the same flood of trick-or-treaters that we used to.  Honestly it used to be quite insane, easily several hundred children.  Now it is a much more moderate flow.  The boys had a great deal of fun drawing faces on "ghost pumpkins" (some kind of albino pumpkin we saw at the store) and making jack-o-lanterns out of them.  This was Xander's first real Halloween and both boys had a lot of fun doing the rounds of the neighborhood, although a cold front kept the festivities short.

I really like the idea of Halloween but I never seem to prepare enough for it in advance... the closest thing I came to spooky sounds for trick-or-treaters arriving at our door was playing DOOM on Xbox Live Arcade and turning the volume way up...

There's usually a pumpkin carving contest at work, which is neat because we have a lot of talented artists.  This year someone did a pumpkin version of the Age 3 "Claim It" ads, making a pumpkin globe and sticking a knife in North America...  my favorite, though, was that one of our artists replaced an in-game armor upgrade with a jack-o-lantern head, which was quite amusing to see... :)