Halloween Weekend 2014

Halloween at work is always fun. My group decorates our hall a few days before Halloween and on the day of, Employees bring their kids in to trick-or-treat at each of the offices. This year, though, it was pouring rain outside on Halloween, which fell on a Friday. I don’t know if those were contributing factors, but there weren’t that many kids trick-or-treating through our halls. It actually worked out fairly well for me because I was able to sneak out of the office a little early on Friday to head across the mountains to a cabin (go to :43 – the Marianne Lodge) 8 other friends and I rented near Leavenworth.

When I arrived I claimed one of the eight bedrooms(!!!) and helped Ambur put up decorations for the Halloween party she planned that night. Everyone else arrived shortly after and we got to work making a taco dinner in the huge kitchen. Friday night we ate dinner, put on our costumes, danced around in the fog (there was a fog machine), hot tubbed and ate candy and then late night mac and cheese.

^^Meli as a hamster, Brittan as a cat, Natalie the Unicorn and me as an owl^^ 
^^Rob as the 90s, Pat as Inspector Gadget, Me as an Owl, Natalie the Unicorn, Adam as a Russian Wrestler, Ambur as Hulk Hogan(!!!), Brittan the Cat, Meli the Hamster, Abbey the dog with an elf hat and Paul as the Cheshire Cat^^

^^Adam and Ambur mid wrestle-mania^^

Saturday I woke up and made everyone biscuits and gravy and eggs and coffee for breakfast. Some people were a little worse off than others but after lounging around for a while, a few of us decided it would be fun to go into Leavenworth proper to explore a bit. Neither Brittan or I had ever been so we were especially excited. Paul drove 5 of us into town and the 20 mile ride there was so brutal, we were all SO car sick by the time we got into town, especially Natalie, Brittan and I in the back seat. We parked and walked to the first brewery we saw to get a round of beers to cure us.

^^Brittan, Myself and Natalie at Icicle Brewing Company^^

After our beers we walked around and decided that we would all buy ONE “jewel”. Our jewels didn’t have to be an actual jewel but could be anything we wanted. We actually kind of failed at this task in the end but it was fun to look around at the shops for potential jewels. I wanted a soft pretzel (not hard in a Bavarian town, right?). Natalie and I stopped into a bakery advertising soft pretzels and got the shittiest soft pretzel of our life. So disappointing.

^^Rob, Brittan, Natalie (+ shitty pretzel) and Paul in downtown Leavenworth^^

After walking a bit further Natalie announced she needed a sausage, everyone else was game for another beer so we stopped into the Sausage Garten with more outdoor seating, heat lamps, beer, soft pretzels, a million types of mustard and sausages. It ended up being an excellent idea because everything we had was delicious and the delicious soft pretzel at the Sausage Garten totally rectified the first.

^^Brittan and Natalie with their delicious food + beers^^

After lunch we walked around until Rob found a beer mug that would be his “jewel” and then we headed to Safeway to pick up some more beer and firewood before heading back to the cabin to nap and watch friends in our cabin’s movie theater. We eventually went downstairs to make more tacos for dinner. Afterward we were all still in a lazy mood so someone turned on the TV and found a magical show on TLC called “Sex Sent Me tot he Emergency Room”. It was hilarious watching the show all together commenting because it was SO ridiculous. Additionally, we saw about 50 ads for a dating site called FarmersOnly.com with the tag line: City folks just don’t get it! HAHA! We then immediately tried to get each other to sign up for the site because we are very mature like that. Fun times!

Brittan finally convinced a few of us to get into the hot tub and upon getting into a cold hot tub remembered that Natalie got too hot in the hot tub the night before and decided it would be a great idea to turn it down to 92 degrees then forget she turned it down. Fail. We still lasted in the lukewarm water for longer than I expected before getting out to go to bed.

Sunday morning we were able to enjoy some extra time in the cabin thanks to daylight savings time ending. Ambur made us all waffles and we drank coffee and cleaned. A few of us girls took a break to take a walk around the property too, which was gorgeous:

^^The Wenatchee River^^

Afterward we drove back home. Brittan drove with me and Natalie and Meli caravanned behind us. We stopped at a random brewery along the way that ended up being very weird and small and disappointing. We then decided we needed dumplings when we got back to Seattle and stopped at U Vil to satisfy our need before splitting ways.

It was a great weekend, and the low-key-Halloween will go into the books as one of my favorites (up there right behind the Halloweens Dustin and I have spent together because those ones are always so fun). Cheers!

Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween, friends!

 

Halloween hasn't traditionally been my favorite holiday (usually because I am being too grinchy to dress up or you know, enjoy the fun of the day), but when I dress up and put out decorations and plan fun things with awesome people, it somehow becomes one of my favorites.

 

This last weekend I went home to White Salmon to go hunting and have some Halloween fun with my besties.

 

After a Friday night "in" with Beth and Marissa which involved a yummy dinner, the cutting of a Yolandi wig and a few dance parties, we were ready for a Saturday night out. So, Saturday evening I dressed up and got my face painted, and then we went out and had a blast. Here are some [spooky] pictures from Saturday night in Hood River. 

 

 

 

 

Today everyone is bringing their kids to work to trick-or-treat at each of the offices. Later, Dustin and I are going to love on our black cat and have friends over for cupcake/cookie decorating and candy corn vodka. Are you doing anything fun today? I would love to hear. 

 



The Longest (Sweetest) Halloween Post

Dustin told me like, weeks ago, in the midst of all of his being gone non-sense that we would carve pumpkins for halloween (alright he maybe didn’t tell me as much as I begged until he agreed). But last week when he got back from all of his trips he asked me if I wanted to come over Friday for a pumpkin carving EXTRAVAGANZA! (Alright, he totally didn’t use the word extravaganza, but didn’t I make it sound exciting?). Obvi I told him yes.

On Friday I got really excited after I was done with school stuff and before he picked me up. So I curled my hair and sent him text pictures like this (it’s the “’get excited, you’ face”). Because I was bored and maybe lame? Don’t judge/pretend like you’ve never done it!

 

So, Friday evening after Dustin was off work and things, he picked me up and we went to Safeway to pick out pumpkins. Clearly I was being very picky about the whole thing but finally found one that was a good size and a good color and a good shape and had a good handle (so important) and didn’t have gross stuff on it.

After we loaded up our pumpkins we went back to Dustin’s apartment where I found this waiting for us:

HALLOWEEN TABLE OF FUN (the great pumpkin charlie brown DVD, jack-o-lantern pizza, gummy worms and candy cornz in skull goblets, science project skull face, cookie decorating things, jelly beans, pumpkin carving things and games). He also had taken out a light bulb in his hall and replaced it with a red light and had scary music playing when we got there (obvi I had to turn the regular light on to take this picture with my iPhone, sorry for the blurryness, I forgot my camera). So cute, right? What a little planner I have!

Oh and did I mention there was also a SPOOKY black cat?? (Battle Cat):

After putting the pizza in the oven and Dustin putting my bear hat on, we had mini photo shoot (because we’re good at it)…

Scary halloween bear faces now:

And then we got to work carving pumpkins.

This is what mine turned out like (so not scary):

And this was Dustin’s which was way more creative and scary and awesome (with him in the background, whoops ha):

side note: We also saved the seeds and Dustin roasted them and we ate them all weekend (fat kid status) and they were super delicious. The perfect Halloween weekend snack and paired well with ALL THE CANDY we ate – really, sooo much candy.

And in case you didn’t remember, our pumpkins looked really cool lit up (alright, his did, mine just looked goofy hah):

And also, last night for actual Halloween, Dustin put our pumpkins outside for everyone to see. He also bought glow sticks to put in them so they wouldn’t burn down his apartment complex in the night.

Bonus Quote: “rainman basically bankrupt the casinos and he was a ra-tard” guess that movie…!

Oh, and did I mention that we sipped on candy corn cocktails while we worked on our pumpkins and did our other Halloween activities?

Also all weekend we could not stop singing “Monster Mash” (honestly we probably sang it about a hundred times during the weekend, because we’re cool – at least we like each other, right? ha).

Dustin (in monster singer voice): The ghouls all came from their humble abodes, to get a jolt from my electrodes
Me (in girl du wop voice): They did the mash
Dustin: They did the monster mash
Me: The monster mash

After pumpkins and snacks, it was science experiment time:

     

We made zombie barf which was chunky and gross and too sugary for me and also it’s what Dustin is drinking in the above picture. And we also made jelly bugs. And it was pretty exciting (see picture of table, science experiments were made with the scary green scull thing).

After our science experiments we decided it was time to wind down from all of our activities and watch “it’s the great pumpkin charlie brown” which I just love so so much. I was SO excited to see this on the table of activities. Good job Dustin!

   

We watched, and ate pumpkin seeds and candy and drank our candy corn vodka and it was amazing.

The next day was Saturday. And Fall-time Saturdays are usually spent watching college football (or at least the Oregon Ducks and Washington Husky games). So we first went downstairs to the Baronoff for breakfast and then we headed up the street to Bleacher to watch the UO game.

I’m not going to lie. We went to the bar at noon. And we were the first people there. And by the time the game was over at like 3:30 we were both a little buzzed. Also I wore my bear hat. And it was rad (old men complimented me, duh).

Then afterwards, Dustin was like, “let’s keep day drinking” and I was like “AWESOME! I LOVE THAT IDEA!” Because I had decided on like Wednesday that I was going to take Saturday completely off from school work (the first completely off day in about a month) and it was the best. But in the midst of Dustin declaring that we were going to day drink we passed this time travel shop on our walk down Greenwood Ave. and Dustin insisted we go in (to be fair, we’ve wanted to go in a million times but they’re always closed). So we went in. And Dustin bought lots of things. Like this smoke gun (it’s a toy gun that blows smoke rings):

And then we went to the grocery store and then we played games on his patio area and shot smoke rings at each other. I was almost really good at the throw the ball in the cup game. But not quite. He beat me every time, even though I think I had more close shots ;)

isn’t my bear hat the best?

And then we came inside and he made us Philly Cheese steak Sandwiches because I forced him (okay, this time I didn’t force THAT much, because he likes them too).

And then we made and decorated BOOGER COOKIES (all his idea. so cute of him, right?) We did this on Saturday b/c we were too tired after all of our other activities on Friday. But it was so much funz:

The boogeriest cookie     

And then it was Saturday night and so we watched the University of Washington Huskies win their FB game. And we watched the really really awesome close Stanford vs. USC game. And we also watched “the Haunted Mansion” movie with Eddie Murphy. So silly.

We thought about going out to sing Karaoke but I was too tired and lame. Day drinking really took it out of me. Ha!

The next morning I made us biscuits and gravy and bacon. And Dustin made us Bloody Mary Bar. Because I love Bloody Marys. And there is a Pirate themed bar right downstairs from his apartment (I know, right??) that has bloody mary bar on Saturday and Sunday, but we always miss it. So he brought it to me. And it was sweet. He wins. All weekend he won.

    

And then after that I went back to being a normal, boring person law student. I went home and did homework and worked on a  motion that is being submitting to the court for the theft case I’ve been working on. But the weekend was super fun. I loved it so much.

On a side note though, my roommates and I didn’t get ANY trick or treaters last night. This is despite the fact that we live in a residential neighborhood. We even had our porch light on and pumpkins on our porch. I don’t get it? Oh well. More candy for me! Ha. Someone stop me!

Sorry this was such a long, picture heavy post. I hope you’re over it :)

Also, tell me about your weekend. Did you dress up and go out? Was it awesome?

Halloween Weekend Fun

Hi friends! I hope you’re all having a wonderful hallo-weekend! Mine has been a ton of fun so far. Dustin and I spend the weekend together being low key, watching football, eating lots of sugar and snacks, playing games, and doing Halloween actives… likes carving pumpkins!!

Mine is the one on the left, his is the (better, scarier) one on the right.

I have a full post of all our activities to come. Really, it was an awesome weekend (and I wore my bear hat all day yesterday, which made it even better). But I’m stuck working on a motion right now and I don’t have time for too much blogging. It’s aright though, because yesterday I took the entire day off  from homework. And it felt so so good. SO GOOD! #TWSS

What did you all do this weekend? Was it magical? Did you dress up? Tell me about it, please & thx!

XXOO