Happy Halloween! Halloween is always one of my favorite days of the year — I love seeing how creative people get with their costumes and decorations, and it’s a fun occasion to dress up! Dan and I didn’t do anything last year because I was really sick on Halloween weekend, and I was really bummed… 馃檨

This year, we celebrated a day early, going to a friend’s Halloween party. Dan and I both worked on our costumes for a couple hours on Saturday afternoon before going to the party. Can you guess what we were supposed to be?

Dressed as Finn and Quinn from Glee

We may just look like a generic jock and cheerleader, but those who are sharp may have guessed that we were supposed to be characters from Glee! Since the show started airing, we’ve actually had several people tell us that Dan looks a lot like Finn Hudson, the star quarterback of the school and one of the central characters in the show. We’ve even had a random passerby come up to us at a restaurant to point out that they thought there was a striking resemblance. A lot of people say there’s a resemblance, some don’t see it… I can see that they have similarities in stature, the pale complexion, the pigeon chest, the general face shape, and hairstyle, but I think most of the likeness is in their facial expressions, like the face they have when they’re flustered or confused, or when they raise an eyebrow in a questioning look.

Anyway, we had enough people bring the likeness to our attention that we decided to run with it as an idea for Dan’s Halloween costume this year.

Finn Hudson

The costume was pretty easy — we took a plain red Nike jersey and stuck a huge number 5 on the front and back for Finn’s football outfit…

Dan as his doppelganger, Finn

We stenciled and cut out white letters to spell out “HUDSON” for the back:

Finn Hudson

I have no such resemblance to any of the characters in Glee, but we decided to have some fun playing off of the pregnancy factor that I shared with Quinn Fabray, Cheerios head cheerleader and Finn’s former flame who was pregnant during most of the first season.

Quinn Fabray

For the Cheerios uniform, I just ordered a simple red and white cheerleader uniform, and spent the afternoon meticulously stenciling out the letters WMHS (for William McKinley High School) onto red cloth and outlining them in white and black cloths, and gluing it onto the chest of the uniform.

I glued the letters onto the uniform.

Costumes complete, we headed over to our friend Joletta’s, who was hosting a Halloween party at her house.

driving to Fremont

There was lots of delicious food and we played a few fun Halloween-themed games! Afterwards, those of us who brought pumpkins gathered around to do some pumpkin-carving.

Joletta's Halloween party

me working on my pumpkin

The completed pumpkins! They all came out so well!!! Can you guess which one is mine…?

pumpkins lit up!

I made the Totoro jack-o-lantern! 馃檪 I was actually quite pleased with the result:

my Totoro pumpkin lit up

Totoro pumpkin

Dan went with his signature scary style with the carving, and created this two-faced jack-o-lantern. He carved it really fast, too; we were impressed! (He actually finished this complicated design before I completed my simple little Totoro… haha*)

Dan's scary two-face pumpkin

Everyone at the Halloween party was dressed in such fun costumes! I really enjoyed seeing what everyone came as. :)脗聽 Huge thanks to Joletta and Mapolo for hosting and organizing such a fun party!

everyone in costume

with the lovely Ann Helen
Lovely Ann Helen made an adorable chef!

Lilly and David
Lilly was the prettiest elf, and David came as a Turk! haha*

me with Joletta and Christella
With French maid Joletta and bumblebee Christella.

We brought our pumpkins home, and I let Piper play with it since this is his first Halloween with us. Diesel was uninterested, apparently fed up from my past Halloween antics. Piper ended up biting off part of Totoro’s ear, though, so we had to repair it. 馃檨

Piper is curious about the pumpkin

my Totoro pumpkin
All fixed!

Today, we spent the day doing some major cleaning around the house and just prepared some candy for potential trick-or-treaters that might come by this evening. We hope everyone had a safe and fun-filled Halloween!!!

A Glee Halloween