* HALLOWEEN *

This Halloween our costumes came together at the last minute.  On Sunday afternoon (the 30th) we were busy creating.  Well mostly Mark, he always goes the extra mile for his costume.  I didn't, I found mine at the used clothing store Moon Zoom downtown Santa Cruz.  All I had to come up with was Dorothy's ruby slippers.  Mark had some red spray paint left over from some job and I bought a bottle of red glitter and voila my gold heels are now ruby slippers!  Leland's warm costume came from the Little People's store in Scotts Valley.

We headed downtown for dinner at Hula's to celebrate Brenda's birthday then on to the informal parade down Pacific Avenue.  We felt famous, everyone wanted to take our photo or be in a photo with us.  It was fun for a while, until our cheeks hurt from smiling.  We've already started tossing around ideas for next year... though I'm sure we wont get started making the costumes until the last minute.

Here we are with Glenda the good witch and the wicked witch of the east.

Here we are with a wicked witch, the scarecrow and a flying monkey.

We even stumbled across the gate keeper to Oz!