Boo....

Our Halloween festivities started on Friday night with the big BFIS party. Joe and Alexa stayed after school to "help set up." So only Andrea, Jessica and I were around for our pre-festivities photos. We'll put a spell on you...

As usual the PTA outdid itself with lots of food, games and a few bouncy things. The highschool students organized a haunted house and the "Slackers", a group of men who are here on sabatical, ran the grill.

Our friends the Kims are leaving tomorrow...this was our last hurrah together. They left for Granada, in the south of Spain, for a few days of exploring. They are moving to San Diego and we're going to miss them.

Saturday morning we went right to work on preparing for our own party on Halloween night. The decorations were hung, food was prepared and the pumpkins were carved...

Nancy and I in the kitchen where I spent most of my time.

Our friends from up the street. They are from Holland and their girls go to school with ours.

More friends....

We also invited our Spanish neighbors from our street. It was great fun. Everyone brought a dish of some sort and we had an overwhelming amount of desserts...

Our smorgasborg of sweets...

Upstairs we set up some games and the Playstation with a few multi player games, down in the basement Andrea and Alexa had set up a dance area. The boys were outside playing flashlight tag.

Nick had a bonfire going ...

We ended the night toasting marshmallows. ... I think we had three courses of sweets...desserts, candy and marshmallows...and we sent the kids home in severe sugar overload...but happy.