Halloween 2010

Halloween was awesome! Nick and I have dressed up in couples costumes every year we've been together. More often than not rather reluctantly, but Nick's a pretty good sport about it. Let's see...we've done

1. Angel & Demon
2. Bunny & Magician
3. Black Eyed Peas.
4. SnS Chef & Waitress/painter & canvas

And I had a little trouble this year because I really wanted to keep doing the couples thing, but there's 3 of us! So this is what I came up with, kind of at the last second too!

Circus Performers!

I think it turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself.

 

For my costume I had to buy a little black dress. I've dressed like a mom pretty much forever...at least that's what Emilie always says, but isn't that supposed to be like, a wardrobe staple? Apparently I'm farther gone than I realized. The little number is way too small on me. Says on the tag it's supposed to be "just above the knee" and it barely covers my rear! But I was wearing my leggings, so that's all I needed it to do. It was all I could find for a decent $15 at Forever 21. I almost dropped $20 on a red cardigan at Target, but I just couldn't bring myself to it. And I ended up borrowing this red blouse from my mom and just tying up the ends. Turned out pretty cute! I guess I must have pitched Nick's magician hat from 3 years ago, cause I had to buy a new one. Then I made my whip out of a piece of thin dowel rod ($2) with black and red electrical tape wrapped around it for decoration and to hold on the braided black yarn. I looked for a more substantial lion, but...I couldn't find one and Nick said it would be funny to bring the teensy crocheted one. All in all? $26.

 While shopping at Target, Ryan was being kind of a butt. So I was looking through the baby clothes, but not very thoroughly. I was kind of distracted trying to keep HIM distracted until we got out to the car so he could eat. Just as I was giving up and walking away, Emily B pulled this cutie polka dot outfit off a mixed rack. "How about this?" Um, PERFECT!? The little monkey on it is even fine, and obviously it's something he can wear again. Then she picked me up some pom poms from Hobby Lobby and I safety pinned them on for easy removal when the holiday is over. Dab of lipstick on the nose, and this cutie clown only cost $10.

This was SO cute and SO frustrating! All he needed was a thicker dowel rod ($3), some foam balls and back spray paint for a huge weight, and some suspenders for a little flair. We went to Wally World to pick up the paint ($0.77) and over into the crafty section to pick up the foam balls. Um, $10 EACH. I just thought that was absolutely ridiculous for a piece of FOAM! Give me a break. So we wandered around looking for a cheaper alternative and picked up 2 bouncy balls for $1 each. That's more like it. But in the end, I should have sucked it up and paid the $20...the spray paint would. not. dry. even though it was supposed to in 10 minutes and we gave it almost 2 DAYS. We glued them, we taped them, we glued them and taped them! the balls would not stick onto the end of that rod for anything. So that just didn't work out. Even though the weight was the main prop, with his flexing poses and stuffed sock biceps, you can tell what he's supposed to be. But that was a real bummer. $15 for a big disappointment.

So we accomplished all of our outfits for $51! I thought that wasn't too bad for how cute we all look. =)

We had a really good time at Emily B's Halloween Party! Had to miss Dave & Laurie's annual Harvest Party because Nick worked until 6 on the 30th, but it worked out that Em had her party the same night, so we still got to party it up!!

Our gorgeous hostess dressed up in a totally unique peacock costume! Thought that was just too cool. Admittedly, I was a little skeptical of how she was going to pull it off, but WOW! Did she ever. You looked super awesome, Em!

Ryan hanging out with Anna.

Pictured: Andrew as Thing 1, Emilie as an Angel holding RyRy the clown, Alyssa as Queen Amidala in her fighter outfit, Scotty the blue lego and Daniel as Carlos the Chilean miner!!!

My angel costume 5 years ago was probably my ALL TIME favorite! Emilie said she felt very unoriginal in hers, but she sure was pretty! I think that's why it was my favorite. I loved wearing the wings, the halo was major cute, I wore my hair all curly and gold super high heels with a white dress. I just felt SUPER pretty, and I can remember kids at The Switch pointing me out to their parents. "Look, mommy, an aaaangel!" Loved it. =)

Actual Halloween day wasn't super busy. Day went by pretty slow. Nick had to work an awkward shift that made us not be able to go to church, so we pretty much wasted the day away until around 7:30pm. Dressed up in our outfits and snapped those pictures up there, then went out to Nick's mom & dads to watch the season premiere of "The Walking Dead" on AMC. I hate horror movies and all that junk, but I gotta say, it was really good and I'm excited to watch next weeks episode!

All in all, a very Happy Halloween!

Spring Banquet '08

Last week was our youth group's "prom". I'm pretty sure most churches don't do this, but I my guess is that it originated out of so many of our teens being home schooled. And thus "Spring Formal", "268 Dinner", and this time, "Spring Banquet" was made!

Last year my friends and I put on the show, so to speak and themed our night "Old Hollywood". We painted 3 giant canvas things to make a big picture of Hollywood long ago, and set it all up with greenery and a red carpet for pictures in our newly remodeled Fellowship Hall.

As a surprise a Hummer Limo pulled up when it was time to go, and it made 2 trips to take everybody Downtown to a restaurant called "Anthony's." Nobody had ever been there before, because it was a more members only place, I think. You had your choice of chicken alfredo, steak, or halibut...and it was wonderful! The limo dropped us off back at the church and we listened to a message, watched a senior video I made, and sent everyone off with a gold-painted Barbie doll or golden globe for the guys. It was a ton of fun.

This year, however, being one of the seniors myself...our new youth pastor's wife, Jessica, did most of the planning. Our theme this year was, "A Night of Mystery." Some ladies from our church made the meal, which was pretty good, and during dinner the adults that work with us teens put on a show themed with Clue. You know, the game? So there was Mrs. White, Miss Scarlet, Col. Mustard...etc. And at the end everybody guessed the killer, weapon and room. I don't think anybody got the whole thing right, but I got the killer! Mrs. White you rascal, you. ;P

Here's Nick and I. I wore a really pretty periwinkle colored dress, and white/silver accessories.

We found Nick a shirt that matched just about perfect and white tie. Doesn't he look smashing?

Here's Emilie in her pretty, pretty green dress, posing with our adorable friend Mariah.

Here's a group photo of some of our friends.
Kelsey and I. Can you tell I was a little top-concious? Haha! My dress was rather low-cut.
They had a really gorgeous picture area set up, but we had a photographer (Well, another guy in our church that's pretty nifty with a camera...I dunno if he really is or not..) so we posed for pictures just standing around. The whole room was super pretty, and everyone had a really good time.

Afterward me and Nick ditched to go back to his house to show off for his mother and change clothes, then headed back to the church for the ALL-NIGHTER! :D

Nick didn't get to stay the whole time, he worked the next day and didn't think staying up all night would really be the best thing for him. Haha. The evening was pretty awesome. Someone donated a Wii for the evening, and so there was a lot of bowling and golfing as well as Halo on the Xbox and football on the PS2. Not that we just played video games all night...there were card games, board games, ultimate frisbee and dodgeball as well.

After everyone was thoroughly worn out from running around and tired of games we started to wind down and just chat...which led to falling asleep. I konked out on the floor in the hall around 4:00am...woke up a couple hours later to munch a donut and find a cozier spot in a chair in the foyer. Mom picked Em and I up around 7:30 and we both slept until 2:00. Hehe. Good times!

Well, today is Mother's Day, and I don't have really any pictures of my mammy to put up here or anything....but Happy Mother's Day nonetheless to her (Love you!), and every other mommy dearest out there!

Our power went out for a little bit last night, and we usually leave for church at 8:30. Well, I had my cell phone alarm set for 7:30, and when I got up to come out and finish up my lunch packing (Lunch for my mom is a joined effort from me and Matt. We're going to Champaign today to eat lunch at his house) nobody was up. That was totally weird, because my dad gets up at an ungodly hour every day and really...complete silence. I finally saw him emerge their bedroom around 8:00 and asked if we were going to church. He said, "As far as I know." I was like, "Oh, okay...(Kinda laughed) well it's getting late." Mom came down a minute later and said their alarm never went off and they thought it was 6:00am! Hah! Needless to say we're not going to Sunday School, and I don't know if we'll make church or not.

I better stop rambling now or I'll never have anything to post for another 2 weeks.

Have a super day!