Halloween 2011

So this is how our Halloween went this year.....

Saturday night we went to the Pumpkin Patch then we went to Walmart and got some pretty sad looking pumpkins. We went there with our friends because on Halloweeen night we were planning on carving the pumpkins with them. After that Walmart Derek and I got invited to go carve pumpkins at another friends house on Sunday night. So we went to a different Walmart on our side of town to get two more pumpkins. Over the next hour and a half Derek and I drove to 3 Walmarts on our side of town who were all sold out and it was two days before Halloween. We finally gave up and decided that we would carve the pumpkins that we had on Sunday night and then on Monday I would go shopping and get two new pumpkins.

Sunday night we went over to Mallory (a friend from work) and Todd's house, which was a blast. We carved pumpkins and just got to know each other since this was the first time we hung out with them. They are both great and we hope to hang out with them more often! Mallory and I have been talking off and on at work and every time we talk we find out we have more and more in common. One day at work I wore a Panchos sweatshirt. Now that probably means nothing to everyone else in the world, but Mallory came up to me and said "Pismo beach, I love pismo beach". Yes, she knew the store I got it from in Pismo beach, California. Both her and I have grown up going there every year for summer vacations!

Any ways back to Halloween. So Then came Monday the actual Halloween day! I took Derek to school in the morning (Monday's he is at school all day this semester) then I was off to Gilbert to do some hair. After hair I drove all over the place looking for two decent pumpkins to carve at Eric and Alexis house that evening. I went to two Walmarts on the other side of town, a fry's, and finally a Safeway. At Safeway I found the saddest pumpkins but at that point I did not care!!!!

After my pumpkin hunt I went to the gym, worked out ,and then went home. Of course what would Halloween be to me without Michael Jackson, big hair , and red lipstick. I took the next hour and some of my day getting ready at home to some very loud thriller music! It was one of the best points to my day!!!!

I made my hair really big and put on my red lipstick (wish I would have taken pictures but I didn't) then was off to Costco for my first night in the photo lab! It was of course slow as can be, but I was able to learn a ton so that was good.

I got off work at 8:45pm and took my two costco pizzas over to Eric and Alexis's house. There us three couples just sat around talked and ate some dinner. It was so nice! Eric, Alexis, Jex, Aubrey, Derek, and I used to hang out all the time last year. Since the beginning of this year Jex and Aubrey had a baby, they both work, and Jex has been working on his thesis so they are always busy. Eric and Alexis had their little man oliver, found out they are pregnant again, and they both work and have school so they are always busy. And Derek and I have both have work and school, and work outside of work (hair and pictures), so by the time we try to work out everyones schedules we never all get together! So it was extremely nice to just sit and talk and catch up on our lives and see how everyone is doing. Plus it is always fun to get all of our husbands together because they are such goons! Oh and the funniest part of the night.... Aubrey and JEx did not bring pumpkins and we were all so tired and just talking that after like 8 stores of hunting pumpkins we didn't even carve them! Just my luck!

Last night was not my typical Halloween. I love halloween. My Morgan and I celebrate it to the fullest every year and it is such a blast. I completely missed that and her last night, but this is where our life is right now and it was a great night with friends!

I called Morgan to see how her night was and she said it was good. She went to the carnival at the community center all night. She had told me the night before Halloween one of her teeth came out and it was not nice and she wished I would have been there to help. (My mom said she cried all night for me). But it was a special tooth that came out. It was a silver one....hahahaha! I love that little girl so very much and miss her a ton! I am grateful for our friends, but can't wait to be home again for Holidays some time in the future!