this is halloween

i was supposed to be born on halloween and i came two days late, dangit.

which would have made our family extra special because i have a brother born on [thanksgiving] and another born on [christmas]. a sister 4 days short of [leap year] and a brother 2 days too soon for [labor day].

i hope by the time i have kids you can pick the sex and birth date. although, where's the fun in that right!?

halloween is the greatest because what other holiday makes CEREAL in honor of it!? 

count chocula, booberry, and frankenberry 

all made just for HALLOWEEN! 

of course [count chocula] takes the cake. (or should i say spoon...)

OCTOBER means haunted houses!! 

[3]

Dr. Slaughter's- idaho falls

Frightmares/Lagoon- farmington

Castle of Chaos- riverdale

the girls

best friends

 the tall creepy walking ones

the blade-killer show

the lovely ferris wheel of lagoon

and the boy i mentioned from the masquerade- zorro. he took me on a date to the castle of chaos. how in the world did this kid know haunted houses was my thing! 

byui reunion with my 06ers. still the bestest of friends. they came to bountiful to surprise visit me. 

what good friends. the best night.

we had a "halloween week" (more like month...) at school and i did the [monster mash] dance with the kiddos. they loved it. however, with 36 classes a week... i'd be perfectly happy if i never had to hear that song again.

the school halloween parade was too neat. seeing all 900 kids dressed up and walk through was deeelightful. a million costume ideas. winner goes to the cardboard-made bumblebee (transformer) who had to kick the boxes (legs) every step. he wore a permanent scowl on his face the entire march of "why are my parents making me do this."

i dressed up too. music teacher appropriate (hint).

can you guess what i am?

i didn't think so.

i'm a BLACK-EYED PEA (:
and this is my cute roommate who was a princess.

i attended one of the 4th grade's class party and we had a witches brew full of blood (red juice and sprite) and some spiders and cockroaches (ding-dongs or zebra cakes). 

my friend katy and i went to the WSU halloween party and it was a pretty wild turn out. my favorite costume i saw (and i wish i took a pic) was of a guy dressed up as one of the army men from toy story. he had it down perfectly. he even had the plaster thing his feet were connected too and walked as such. and he didn't even win first place! two kids who threw on a hat and a wig reppin the waynes world duo did. boo.

here's a pic i stole of the internet of what he looked like. inventive huh!

i changed it up a bit. a little more with the hair. lost the white face makeup. and made the "P" look more like it should. when my students couldn't recognize me i figured i was due for a change.

[STORY of the NIGHT]

one guy in particular sure caught our attention the entire night. [mr. naked bath man] we called him. and at this LDS shindig, he sure stood out...

let's go over towels shall we?

we have the standard dish rag.
the hand towel.
and the body towel.

well this joker was sporting a little hand towel hanging in the front and one hanging in the back attached around some string of some kind- looking like a loin cloth of our day. underneath, some whitey tighties, thank heavens. and a bath towel wrapped around his head. ok, sure he was muscular, but it was just too much. too much. he was all up dancing on all the ladies most the night and we made sure to steer clear from his bubble bath madness.

earlier as we were going back and forth upstairs and downstairs i had said to katy. "i hate walking down these kinda stairs, i always feel like i'm gonna trip."

sure enough, later that night we were walking down the steps and for whatever reason i tripped down a couple steps and landed on non other than naked bath man. in midst of the falling, i put my hands out and they landed all over naked mans bare chest. i gave an embarrassing look of revolt and disgust and said, "ooo, ooo!" as he smiled, lifted his eybrows back and forth at me and said, "mmm, mmmm."

there were like 50 captain america's there! at least 5 batmans, 7 supermans, and 4 trons... and of ALL the people i have to fall on, and have rescue me i get naked bath man???
for the remainder of the night each time he saw me he'd give me the "how you doin" smile, and i'd duck, cover, and flee that sitch-iation.

a handsome and nice lumberjack did ask me on a date tonight. i keep having to remind myself that the odds of him being a lumberjack in real life are the same odds as me being a #1 selling popstar.

my very own 

and

very first

halloween decor 

which every adult will eventually have to buy for themselves and their future posterity.

i figured... why not start now!

the 3 candy corns i bought at the local farmers market. very festive.

and the ghost. well i won it at a dazzling game of BUNCO.

i actually lost out of all the 12 players so i got the "biggest loser award"

quite exciting on the contrare. 

can you believe i'm a BUNCO player now with all the other ladies in the faculty??

 so old. 

happy hauntings!