HaPpY HaLLoWeeN!!

Well it's been a busy week for sure! As for the {pre-Halloween} activities... we had our ward Halloween party on Wednesday night. I headed up the booth that the Mia Maids were in charge of- the Bean Bag Toss. Here is my sidekick, Batman, aka Hunter, handing out the bean bags.

I made the pumpkin, which I think turned out pretty good. Just don't ask how long it took me to make it! Seems so simple, but not the case for me! I also sewed the bean bags, which was the last project I'll ever sew on that blasted sewing machine! I'm in the market for a new one. Let me know what your favorite brand is. I don't have a clue when it comes to sewing machines.

I stayed behind the scenes for most of it. Throwing back the bean bags. Collin only got pelted once :)My eye view from behind the scenes.

Trav was a P.E coach of sorts and I was just a country music star with my guitar.

It was a very fun, albeit chaotic, party. They also had a haunted house that went through the primary room. Trav and I went through and I screamed at the very top of my lungs the whole time. Occasionally interspersing, "I want my mommy!!". The best part was, all the people in the haunted house thought I was truly scared and were eating it up! Haha, it was way too fun.

Thursday night, Rach and Tiff came over and we commenced with the traditional making of the caramel apples! This time we rolled them in candy bars and they were mmm, mmmm good!

The finished products- prizes for the party.

Then last night we had our much anticipated party! (Well much anticipated for me anyway.)

I am Taylor Swift. Meet my guitar, Collin.

(I know his head looks cranked, but believe me, it was well supported!)
Also, I know I don't have blonde hair, but the spray I bought, just turned my hair neon green! Reference the ward party pictures. And I couldn't curl a wig, so I had to be a brunette Taylor. :(

And you wouldn't believe it, but Kayne West made an appearance!!!

I almost kicked him out when he tried to steal my VMA award though. Punk.

It was a really fun costume idea. No one recognized Trav when they first saw him at the party. Everyone's reactions were hilarious. They admitted they thought a real black guy had come. He didn't dress up as Kanye for the ward party because, well, we just thought that might be slightly misunderstood in the Buffalo ward :)

I spent way too much time getting the basement ready for the festivities. My goal: not be running around like a chicken with my head cut off when the party was supposed to be starting. Goal accomplished!

Here is the {voting booth} to vote for the best costumes. The purple lights looked way better in the dark.

The food table, before most of the goodies arrived.

And here are all the awesome costumes. I must say, the competition was fierce this year :)

The Daytons won for "Most Creative" costume. Well deserved for sure. They were Facebook and Twitter.

I even made it onto Facebook! You'll have to enlarge it to see though.

The Nielsen's won for "Best Overall". They were Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter. Awesome!

The Lindman's won "Best Couple". They are the two Amigos and their Chili Pepper.

The Marchants won for "Scariest". They were hobos. I didn't even recognize them when they walked in!

Here are the Biggest Losers, the Cardon's! Creed was quite proud of his belly haha.

Meet Tom Hanks and Wilson, aka the Carters.

The X Men made an appearance. (The Finlinsons)

I LOVED these costumes! The Houses dressed up as 80's Rockers. The best part was, they both didn't have wigs- it was their REAL hair!

The Shaheen's should have won for most creative for sure! :)

Natalie and Thayne, respectively a moo cow and soccer player

And the Bennions.... a couple of worker bees! Their daughter wasn't there, but her costume was the "Queen Bee". Too cute!

Devil Doug and Angel Rach with skeleton Gavin! :)

Well I'm sad to say that I lost track of my camera for the rest of the party! No pics of the donut eating contest :( I participated in that this year, but got beat out by Facebook! Definitely my favorite moment though, was Tiffany going crazy after her donut, scaring away the guy next to her. (he was here interviewing at UB and came to the party) He literally finally just grabbed his donut and walked off!! He's married and I think he though Tiff was getting a little too close for comfort. I was laughing so hard, tears were coming out of my eyes. Tiff, you crack me up!! We really had so much fun. Most of the people left around 10:30pm, but we had a few night owls that stuck around til midnight which we loved!

I'm already scheming ideas for next year's party. Thanks to everyone who came!