How was your Halloween?  I hope it was spooky and full of treats.

Ours started off with a little appetizer spread (you guys know I can’t resist a cheese plate!  Come on.)

I got a big wedge of this triple cream French cheese at Trader Joe’s (I can’t remember the name!  But it was delicious.)  I served it up with three kinds of crackers, tomatoes, grapes and some macadamia nuts and pistachios.

My sister and her tiny clown August came over early to celebrate:

That cheese plate was basically just for the two of us.  Let’s be honest here.

Also, look at August’s long legs!  He’s basically as tall as I am.  His daddy is 6’6, so we’re all convinced that he’s going to be a giant.

While we waited for Alexis’ husband and my brother + his girlfriend to arrive, KC, Penny and I got dressed in our costumes.  We bought Penny a shark costume this year:

And because we base our costumes off Penny (we’re very cool), we decided to be Shark Week together.  KC was Discovery Channel Shark Week (made himself out of an old cardboard box), I was a shark-bitten scuba diver, and Penny was the fearsome aquatic beast:

Totally terrifying, right?  Riiiight.

That’s fake blood on my arm, and I was fairly certain that my arm was going to be stained red for the next week (because it was $1 at Target.)  Luckily, makeup remover + rubbing alcohol did the trick and I’m no longer looking like a bite victim.

Also, just in case you were wondering — yes, we literally dress up just to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters at our house.

The coolness factor just keeps multiplying.

I had made a big pot of beef stew which was simmering away on the stove, and (luckily) ready shortly after everyone finally arrived.  It was a pretty fun night.

(And we did get more trick-or-treaters than last year — 10 kids!  Two of them were dressed like Elsa from Frozen.  Go figure.)