I just realized that I hadn’t written anything in a while, and I really wanted to share my wonderful Halloween experience.  Halloween has never really been my favorite holiday.  After middle school, I never really did anything for Halloween.  As a christian, Halloween always made me a little uneasy, too, but it seems as though a lot of churches provide some kind of festival or party to keep people out of too much trouble.

So, this year I actually had a party to go to…a COSTUME party!  I was so excited.  I always want to dress up, but never have anywhere to go.  I mean seriously..I can’t be walking up to doors as a 22-year old fairy asking for candy.  This year was my chance to dress up for real.  Justin and I got on the costume ideas right away in mid September.  We went to this Halloween store called Spirit and I quickly discovered that if I was going to keep any dignity then I would not be able to buy a pre-made costume for females.  Have you seen those things???  The brand of all the costumes is literally “Leg Avenue”.  You following me here?  I preferred to go to my Halloween party without having dollar bills shoved into my bra.

Therefore, the quest for the perfect homemade costume began.  Justin and I thought of everything, but it just never seemed to be “original” enough.  We finally settled on being “Day and Night” and began the search for the  perfect accessories.  It wasn’t going well and we found ourselves still googling “couple costumes” everyday, until….we found a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.  PERFECT!  How much fun is that?  Well, we thought it was pretty fun, so for the entire month of October we set out to buy the fabric, felt, posterboard, and stuffing to make the costumes.  After hours of labor and a little help from Mrs. Roman, we finished.

We started the night out by going to Justin’s sister’s house for chile and pictures of the kids. 

Then we went to our church’s “Fall Festival”.  This was definitely the highlight of the night.  We arrive, as maybe one of the 5 people out of a couple hundred dressed up.  We’re wearing huge potato costumes and white cartoon hands.  All of a sudden, we are going to get some bottles of water when a crowd of children run up to us wanting to shake our hands, give us high fives, talk to us, and then run away with a sheepish smile.  It was literally out of a Disney Commercial.  It felt like Calvary had paid us to be the cartoon character entertainment for the night.  Not exactly what we were going for, but it ended up being a blast.

After staying at the Fall Festival for a while, we went and picked up our friend Miguel and headed to the Med School Costume Party.  Picture 200 people crammed into a 2 bedroom house.  Crowded, yet oh-so-much fun.  We stayed there for the rest of the night.

All in all, one of the best Halloween’s ever.

p.s. – I also got to dress up for school.  Best work day ever.  The office staff and I all dressed up like 101 dalmations and Leslie, our secretary was our Cruella.  Dun, dun, dun.  She pulled it off very well.  I mean, look at that hair!