Trick-or-Treat

Halloween is by far one of my favorite holidays of all time! I have dressed up every year, the only exception being the year I was on my mission in Chile. I’ve been a variety of characters: disney princesses- Cinderella, Jazmine, and Esmeralda, a french maid, queen Nefertiti (my dad is a nerd for egyptian stuff), p50’s oodle skirt girl, flapper, girl scout, zombie, vampire, baby (this one was great cause I just wore pajamas all night) olive oyle (Trav was popeye), and a bunny (as a baby, not the playboy kind;) ) But I have to say that of all these costumes, nothing was as cool as this year, when Trav and I were a dia de los muertos bride and groom.

People asked us all now how long it took us to get ready, it took us 2 hours to paint our faces and get ready, the make up was a lot of hard work! What was so great about this costume is that it cost us less than $15! We got the top hat at walmart for $5, I made the head piece by glueing black lace and plastic roses, that cost me $4, to an old headband, the clothes we already owned and the paint was like $1. We do have one tiny secret about how good the details of our face paint came out- they were face tattoos we bought on Amazon! So no, we’re not master face painting artists, but we surely took credit for being so!

This was Trav and I’s 2nd Halloween together (our 1st as a married couple) and like last year, we went trick-or-treating with my sister’s kids in Eagle Mountain. My niece is a blossoming teenager who went trick-or-treating with her friends portraying social media (she was Facebook), so we went with my nephew Gabe who was 'The Scream' with a pump that would make “blood” drip down his mask. Together we were all a spooky bunch!

We went to 4 different neighborhoods picking up candy, specifically the ones with nice houses ;) Some had candy and vending machines that were giving our prizes, others had the coolest decorations, including this one house in Daybreak that actually came out on the news for decorating their house like the Haunted Mansion in Disney. There must’ve been hundreds of people there checking it out and signing the guest book to the ‘Dead in Breakfast’ and getting candy from the home-owners.

After 2 hours of neighborhood hopping and running around with Gabe, we called it a night, and decided to drive with Sherlyn to pick up some pizza and get Bella from her friend’s house. Sherlyn was upset that Gabe had sat in the front because he’s a minor and tends to not wear his seatbelt correctly (the old flip it around the shoulder trick). I was joking around with Travis in the back, who as usual, refuses to kiss me when I’m wearing lipstick (Halloween included) and even though his face was already painted! At one point, I had removed my seatbelt and leaned over for a kiss, and put it back on. A minute after that had happened, we saw one of the most horrifying images that would make any heart sink- the flashing lights of a police officer pulling us over. I immediately thought, “Oh no! This is all my fault! He probably saw me take my seat belt off!” and was ready to be responsible for the ticket. Sherlyn was thinking that she was getting a ticket for having Gabe in the front seat. And we all just sat in silence awaiting our impending doom... In reality, he had been following us for a while and noticed Sherlyn was driving in the bike lane and too close to the car in front of her. He let us go with a warning and we ended that night with the biggest fright of our lives…close one!

All’s well that ends well, and we finished the night with pizza, a movie, and pounds of candy for dessert :)