Halloween Funness!

Okay.  Here's my recap on Halloween!

First of all, our AMAZING grandparents from Idaho came over and spent the day with us!
We went to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (a show I completely reccomend), which was soooo much fun!  We also got to play Masterpiece with Grandma!

So I've had a hard time deciding on a costume for this year.  Originally I was going to be Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon, but I couldn't really get everything together on time, so I've been a number of things.

1. For the Halloween Dance at our stake, I wrapped my legs in Smarties and duct tape and called myself "Smarty Pants"
2. For the Ward Trunk-or-Treat, I put on as much of my Artemis costume as was ready, but I ended up just about freezing my limbs off since I did not take the weather into account while designing the costume
3. For the pitiful "Unique Hat and Hair Day" that is the only stupid thing that the administration for school would pass for costume day, I stuck as many of those flower clippies as I could find in my hair, borrowed some of Mr. Macy's green hairspray, and called it good. (by the way, yes, Dad, several people tried to smell my head.  Another several asked if the flowers were attached to a shower cap.  I'm dead serious, that's what they said.  You want names?  Mango!  Scott!  Kevran!  Hannah!  Tori (known to Matt as Victoria)!  Allie!  Sarah!  And several others who have asked to remain anonymous in this blog post!  People are weird things.)
4. I was a totally lame snowboarding person for the Halloween recital.  I stuck on gloves, a scarf, coat, beanie, and sweats.  Cheap, right?  I was gonna be a street bum, but Mom didn't want me to cross dress and girl street bums are no fun to dress up as.
5. Finally, on Halloween (drumroll)......
I was a jailbird!  Sweet, kind, lovely, and utterly amazing Aunt Anne let me borrow her costume!  (by the way, Aunt Anne, I will be returning it just as soon as it comes out of the wash.  Otter Pop incident.)

6:00 Halloween Evening - I'm doing dishes and feeling slightly sorry for myself that I'm not going trick or treating.  My friend Brynja calls.  I get on costume and don't feel jailish enough so I stick on black beanie and smear black marker all over my face.  All better.
6:30 - I head over to Brynja's house, eat a cookie to get my stomach ready for all the junk that will soon be heading into it.  Our friend Kiera comes over and we head off. 
6:45 - We head to the houses on the outskirts of the neighborhood, where not too many people are going.  They give us way more candy because nobody's coming to their houses.  We get really sick of saying "Trick or Treat!" So instead switch to different things at everybody's houses.  A few: "HACK HACK HACK! Swine flu!" "Phantom of the Opera!" "Monster Mash (with awesome background music, of course, thanks to Kiera's beatboxing abilities) and a full version of "Jingle Bells" with slight adjustments.
About 7:30 - We switch from saying those weird things to acting out weird things.  Example: They open the door to see two motionless bodies in the background while I stand there innocently and says "Trick or Treat!"  When they fork over the candy and are staring at the motionlessness of my colleagues, I look behind me edgily and then ask for two garbage bags, after which the two bodies reanimate and collect their candy.  Yeah, we're weird, but man was it fun to see people's faces.
8:30 - Return home, watch the dumbest movie ever ("Something Wicked This Way Comes").  Stuff myself stupid on candy, dream of Otter Pops.


The End!