What’s your most memorable Halloween experience?

Some couples take cute fall photos. We put giant pumpkins on our heads. 🎃 Every Halloween, my husband and I carve our own wearable jack-o’-lanterns, dress up, and unleash our annual Pumpkin Head photo shoot. Each year gets a little more creative, a little more ridiculous, and somehow even better. It’s spooky, weird, hilarious, and 100% us. Forget matching pajamas. We’re a matching-pumpkin-head kind of marriage.

Tell us why you would make it to the end of a horror movie.

Survival Skills 101? Check. Common sense? Check. Will to live? Aggressively intact. I’ve already survived a real-life surgeon nearly killing me AND a coma, so some masked psycho with a kitchen knife is going to have to try harder. I’m not investigating the creepy noise, splitting up with the group, or running upstairs. I’ve survived scarier things than the villain. Final girl status: earned!

What would you do with the unlucky $13,000?

Unlucky $13,000? I’m here for it!! I’d use it to make some ridiculously fun memories with my family, because experiences beat stuff… mostly. Then I’d march straight into the Halloween aisle and shop like October 31st depends on me. New spooky home décor, skeletons, pumpkins, and anything delightfully unnecessary? Coming home with me. Sorry, bank account. The spirits made me do it.

Who is your real-life hero who you would want to survive a horror movie with?

My husband Jamie, no question. After 18 years together, we’ve already survived enough plot twists to fill a horror franchise. He’s stood beside me through the scariest moments, including almost losing me due to a surgeons error, while somehow holding our family together. If I’m making it to the final scene, he’s the one I want beside me. Besides, after 18 years with me, the man is clearly impossible to scare.