Happy Halloweeni

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays - second only to Christmas, and we love celebrating the whole month through.  2011's Halloween has been a little less involved, but celebrated nonetheless.  We've watched some new movies (hard to believe there are any horror movies we haven't seen) - some of the new ones being Let The Right One In (we're fans of both the Swedish and English versions), Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Triangle, which was so-so.  We have read many Steven King and Edgar Allen Poe short stories, carved jack o'lanterns, and dressed up a few times.  All in all, it's been a killer month.  

 Matt's dia de los muertos face paint

Doris held the annual Jones family Halloween party - even the adults get goodies for winning Halloween bingo.  Yay! The party is such a wonderful, looked forward to tradition every year!

Madison looking especially creepy in her ghost costume

His and hers... all of the little boys loved Matt's bullets, and Matt loved his guy liner that lasted a few days

Greg & Joni's family - Greg recycles the beloved graduation gown every year, it has paid for itself time and time again 

Christine made her jester hat with a boy scout hat as the base, naturally

Cute little Matty - who doesn't want to tickle those blue legs 

Jeff looking rather sexy... er something like that 

Nun and crazy cat lady

We made Matt's mariachi pants with medallions and chains intended for jewelery making - I'm pretty sure he's going to wear them regularly - he thinks he's irresistible in them.  

We've also scored several sets of great tickets this month.  Pictured above is us at Portishead - so
unbelievably awesome.   We also saw So You Think You Can Dance which was fabulous, Blind Date an improv theatre performance which was hilarious, Swan Lake (second row) at the Colorado Ballet, a catering event full of all you can eat food, and we had club seats to a Broncos game.  Lucky ducks that's for sure.

Our sweet baby Rocco celebrated his second birthday.  He consumed a giant steak, and a doggie cake - made out of peanut butter and wheat flour

Devotchka at the Ogden was also quite stellar.  Half of the band were zombies and the other half vampires - they consumed a girl at the beginning of the show, and had fabric and ring aerialists perform during the show.  To boot - they sounded amazing.  

Taken with my iphone

We dressed up for the ward trunk or treat (only made one baby cry), and we won the scariest costume award (though our intention was to be happy).  I didn't want to mess with dying my hair black again, so they got the northern european dia de los muertos version.  We had dinner at Zengo that night which was fabulous and all of the servers were dressed up, super fun!

busy being adorable 

Delicious cupcakes made for Matt's class at church.  We made the bats and jack o lanterns out of chocolate

This has got to end...

So we were gone for a long time on our trip and while it's fun for us to post pics so we can look through them and remember the good times, we've got to finish this up.  So I'm going to mash the remaining days into what I hope, will be, a condensed version.  And by condensed I mean the 80 picture kind.  Enjoy!!  Spain was sweet.

Ronda, Spain - yes they used to throw political prisoners off of the bridge during the reign of Franco

Gettin' rowdy at the oldest bull ring in the world

Our room at the Alma Sevilla Hotel, it was extra comfy

Entrance to our Hotel in Seville, it's a converted palace

It's a great book

Chocolate con churros - yes please

Gorg andalucian horse

The Alcazar in Seville

Classic Paella with peach juice... yummy

The streets of Seville

We drove our car down this very street - there was about an inch on each side

Cordoba, Spain - Mosque and Cathedral

Toledo spain - beautiful medieval city famous for it's steel, swords, and marzipan

There was no shortage of armor and swords

Madrid, Spain - Silken Puerta America Hotel, amazing!  Each of the floors was designed by a different architect and looked completely different from the others.  

The lobby of another floor

and yet another

and yet another

and another

and ours

Main lobby

We saw a Flamenco Performance in Seville (though this picture was taken in Madrid), it was one of the highlights of the whole trip. 

We loved this market in the center of Madrid

Food Matt loved from his mission, peach juice and fruit of the forest yogurt

Don't mind Matt's little head in the middle of the sculpture