Halloween!!!!!!

On Saturday before Halloween Spence and I went to our ward Halloween party (what we made the worms from the previous post for). We dressed up and got there late (Our life story, or should I say mine. Sorry Spence.) but wanted to get pictures with our little nursery kids from church. Before we left we had to take pictures of ourselves. Like my roommates and I had done for the last 4 years up at Texas A&M, it was only right that Spence and I carried out that tradition. Here are some pics:

WARNING: If you are in a public area where you shouldn't make lots of noise, I advise you NOT to view the following pictures. May cause lots of laughter.

This is what Spence has been wanting to do for the last year or so. He bought paint and tried it out last year but we ended up being a matching pirate couple instead. So this year, his dreams came true. ENJOY.

I just wore my bee costume I wore a few years back. It was cute and easy.

I swear he looks like Michael Jackson (before surgery) here. Everybody loved Spencer's costume. The only way people would recognize him was if he was standing next to me. : )

Then after a few car issues we made it to the Halloween party and got pictures with some of our kids! We didn't get pictures with all of them but here are some of those cuties!! Cute Snow White !!I think the kids were kind of scared of Spencer. haha

This was on the table where they were serving dinner. Kinda grossed me out.

More pics with our kids:

This is one of our 3 year old nursery kids. He will move to Primary in January with the big kids. He told us about his Spiderman costume for Halloween on Sunday, so we had to find him and get a picture.

This little girl's parents were mine and Spencer's seminary teachers freshman year in High School. She's one cute Cinderella!

Iron Man!! His brother made his helmet out of card board. Pretty impressive!

We hunt them down to get a picture. Cutest ice cream cones I've EVER seen!! She bought Hope's little costume and made her own! Pretty ridiculous!

After the party we went home and changed. Spencer showered because the paint on his face was making him crazzzyyyy! Then we went over to my parents for pumpkin carving and watched the old school Halloween movie on AMC. Those are pretty freaky, and also SO unrealistic. 

We had a great Halloween!! On Monday (Halloween day) we celebrated by a day at work. Then instead of trick-or-treating and getting candy, we went to the gym and worked out. That's how you do it people!! I love the holidays. I can't wait for Thanksgiving!!!! 

          ~Nat

Creeppyy

Saturday, October 29th we had our ward Halloween party. We were excited to go see all of our little nursery kids dressed in their costumes. We were in charge of bringing a dessert. Below is the recipe and steps to creating the perfect cReEpY, CrAWLy Halloween dessert. Enjoy! 

Here are the ingredients you will need:

     2 packs of raspberry jello (3oz.)                3/4 cups of whipping cream

     3 cups of boiling water                             15 drops of green food coloring

     100 flexible straws                                   Tall container to hold your straws tight

Combine jello and boiling water in a bowl.

Let it cool until it's lukewarm and add the whipping cream and green food coloring.

Gather your straws. Make sure you flex them all out. Then put them in your tall container and make sure it's a tight fit. If your container is too big you can tie a rubber band around the straws to make them tight.

Add jello mixture to straws and let it sit until firm. We put ours in the refrigerator so it would speed up the process.

In the meantime we made chocolate pudding (mud) and crushed oreos (dirt) in our Ninja blender. Spencer is pretty proud of our Ninja. I'm not going to lie, it has been a pretty awesome investment. We have been impressed with it for the 5 months we have owned it. 

A couple of hours later we got the straws out of the refrigerator. We tried a couple of ways of getting the "worms" out without crushing or tearing them. We found that the best way to get them out was to squeeze them out into the pre-made cups of mud and dirt.

Here they are on the table at the ward party!!! Aren't they kinda creepy? We kept one in the refrigerator for us and we ended up throwing it out yesterday because it was grossing us out. haha...Mission accomplished! : )

You'll have to try them next year! Thanks for following.

        ~Nat

Holiday Decorating

Since it's our first time to be married during the holidays we've been having lots of fun decorating our little apartment with cute Halloween things, and already purchasing Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations. (Where has the year gone?!) Fortunately I've been stocking up on holiday decorations for the last year. After Christmas 2010 I made many trips to buy Christmas clearance decorations, wrapping paper, bows, cards, etc. (We even got a Christmas tree!) I did the same for Valentines Day, and Easter. I definitely get this from my Mom. I LOVE this trait, especially the following year when I pull out all my purchases from the previous year. Thanks Mom!! : ) 


Guess what that means for me today??? Halloween clearance shopping!! We bought a black and orange plastic storage container the other day at Target so we would be able to store our Halloween decorations outside in our storage closet. So today, my goal is to fill it. Even though we probably aren't too far from filling it already.

These little suckers get to stay out over Thanksgiving. I replaced the jack-o-lattern with a normal pumpkin so it was Thanksgiving appropriate. : )

This was out over Halloween and will stay out over Thanksgiving. 

I'm all about the sparkle! : )

We had orange lights out on the balcony too. I can't wait to clearance shop!!


I still have so much to blog about....I don't think I'll ever catch up. Can't wait to get pictures up from Spencer's Halloween costume. Funny stuff! It was definitely a hit!! Stay tuned.


        ~Nat