Our Happening Halloween

This was one of the most exciting Halloween's I've had in years. It really helped that the holiday fell on a Friday with plenty of friends and parties to choose from. I think the last 2 years I have been in the testing center on Halloween taking a test until 10pm. Which is just sad.

First, because Christine doesn't blog anymore, I'll share with you how cute and Halloween-y her house is decorated.

It took me a couple weeks to decide what to do for a costume. I had plenty of goodies (read: belly dancer outfits) purchased in the Middle East to choose from, but none of them seemed quite right. In addition, Ken invited me to accompany him to our friend Severin's Halloween party which meant we needed a more couple-y costume.


After much contemplation, we settled on Ken & Barbie. It's an idea that has been considered each of the last three years, but it never quite seemed right. (Mostly because I'm all too aware of how un-Barbie I am...) But this year I found some great costumes that made being Ken & Barbie pretty easy so we went with it. It turned out to be really cute and fun.

Ken, Barbie & Egyptian Belly Dancer (Kirstin)

Our first stop for the evening was Megan and Reed Olsen's spooky halloween photo hunt. They had a really fun game where each group got a list of things they needed to find and photograph around town. Whoever found the most items on the list within the time frame won. The list included things like pitchfork, fake mullet, real mullet, political candidate mask, fake boobs, someone drunk, more than 6 jack-o-lanterns on a porch, someone drunk, vampire costume, inappropriate use of spandex, creepy moustache, someone shirtless... who needs one, guy-liner, fishnets, most disturbing costume, etc.

It was so fun collecting these photos! We stopped first at the line outside of Muse Music. There were so many that could've won the "most disturbing" award but this guy's hand decoration takes the cake. I still don't understand how it works but it's gross...

Ew.

On to the 15th Stake Halloween party at the Smith Fieldhouse where we struck gold. There were some very impressive costumes at that party. We were able to find almost every single item on the list! All while collecting some great stares for our non-dress-code-abiding costumes. I didn't really plan to be on campus that night, sorry.

Kirst and I with some vampires

These guys get Inappropriate Use of Spandex and Fake Boobs

We definitely found the most pumpkins!
The Olsen's party ended in the Maeser Building on campus so Kirst and I had to do a little pose with Brigham.

From the Olsen's party we headed over to Severin and Lissa's Halloween haunt. They had lots of things going on including one of the Clue movies (love those!!) and the Ghost Chase board game that I haven't seen since my childhood. I was too shy to participate in the donut eating contest but I've thought alot about the strategy needed to win such a game. Ken excellently implemented the strategy and won the game!!

Ken & Severin
Severin was in the MAcc-Tax program with me but decided to do the JD/MAcc so this year he's in law school. Ken and Severin have become good friends.
Last one... Ken didn't want to wear his plastic yellow hair but it really completed the outfit

Overall the night was a success. I had one fun-sized Kit Kat which was all I really felt like having anyway. Who knew all my sugar consumption of yesteryear was mostly habit rather than actual desire. All those wasted calories...