H54F: Halloween Week

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Happy Friday friends! I thought today would never come around.  It has been a long week and probably has something to do with the exciting festivities of this weekend.  We are celebrating Danny's birthday since he will be old starting Monday (just kidding! I always tease since he is a year and a half older).  We are also celebrating a last official day at Danny's old job and will be starting a new job on Monday (I know, I can't believe his first day of work is on his birthday!)  I am so proud of him and I can't wait to see what this job has in store for him (us).  Now onto High Five for Friday...

1.  Danny and Yogi playing out in the backyard this week.  We have so many trees in our backyard, the colors of fall are all over.  The backyard looks so nice in the evenings and it doesn't hurt that its only 55 degrees when the sun is setting.
2.  I have been working on a few special pinterest crafts this week! I always get in such a better mood when I am crafting.  I have been putting off making some improvements to the house and actually making it a home, so I decided to start on some projects I had this week. I am quite pleased with how everything turned out including this little painting/stenciling.  It's not competely finished yet, but I like the way it looks so far.
3.  I brought out my kitchen aid mixer and finally put it to use! I received my mixer as a gift from some very special family members from my wedding shower earlier this year.  I've already used it multiple times this week because it is so easy to use!
4.  Danny and I went candy shopping at Target for the big event this week: Halloween.  We had so much fun handing out candy in our neighborhood for the first time in our new house even though it rained (poor kiddos!). We gave out extra candy to the kids brave enough to face the elements!
5.  We had our friends over on Thursday to hand out candy with us and we had to dress up the puppy dog too.  We found this Buzz Lightyear t-shirt for him. Now if only he would just wear it proudly instead of trying to tear it up.

Hope you had a great week and a fun halloween!

Buckeye Tailgating

It's been a busy week for sure.  This week is going pretty slow since the weekend was so fun visiting our friends, Emily and Rob.  I met Emily freshman year of college in our very first college of Business class.  Ever since that quarter, we've pretty much taken every major class together and spent the last two years as TAs too.  Our senior year, we found out that we would be switching cities for work since I got a job in Cleveland where Emily is orginally from and she got a job in Columbus where I am orginally from.  Emily and I survived college together and after hanging out with Emily and her husband, Rob for a wedding this summer, Danny and I wanted to visit them for the weekend to go tailgating for the buckeyes game!



Our last first day of school, senior year.

We headed down friday night and spent the evening catching up and sitting by the fire with hot apple cider.  The next morning, we were able to sleep in a bit since the game didn't start until the evening.  Emily made a special chili recipe for the chili cookoff that was occurring at the tailgate.  This was an amazingingly cute idea that their friends end up doing most weeks and Emily's chili ended up winning! There were all kinds of chili and other toppings like sour cream, cheese, avacados, etc. After some delicious chili and some socializing with Emily and Rob's nice friends, we all decided to get the blood moving in our cold bodies and play an intense set of flip cup games.  It was so much fun and I had forgotten how much fun flip cup is since I left college.  After tailgating all day, we went back to Emily and Rob's nice warm home to watch the OSU game.  All in all, it was an amazing weekend with great friends!  Emily and Rob were the most amazing hosts to us and we had a lot of fun.

Sunday Social: Trick or Treat

This week's Sunday Social is all about Halloween and I love it.  I love dressing up so much that me and my friends did it up until senior year of high school.  Who am I kidding, I still dress up to this day (check out this awesomely thoughtful costume me and the hubs were last year...)

A Pair of Jeans/Genes

Now onto the questions....

1. What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?

A Bride.

I only say this because I was a bride for like 4 years in a row when I was in elementary school.  Good thing I was able to dress like one this year in March too!

2. If you could go back to your childhood and dress up as something, what would it be?

I wish I could have dressed up like a Disney Princess when I was little.  My dreams came true later in college (see below), but I wish I could have dressed up as one when I was little.

3. What was your favorite Halloween costume as an adult?

My favorite costume as an adult would be a Purple Crayon.  Me and my friends wanted to go in a group of something and we decided that crayons would be cute.  I also made every part of the costumes which was half of the fun!

4. What is your favorite Halloween candy?

My favorite Halloween candy are Kit Kats.  Not just for Halloween, but for every occasion!

5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?
I have great memories of dressing up for my college's Halloween parties.  Ohio University is famous for its Halloween parties even so much as being awarded the biggest party in the country behind Mardi Gras and New Years Eve in New York.  We go all out in Athens and its always so much fun to see the crazy costumes.

 

Left: Snow White- Athens 2009
Right: Gold Digger- Athens 2007

6. What is your favorite scary movie?

I do not like scary movies at all.  I used to get too scared to go to sleep when there was a really bad episode of Law & Order on, hence why I can't bring myself to watch any kind of scary movie.  I would be an insomniac for days if I did.