Halloween, Part 3: YSA Shindig

No one does Halloween quite like the YSA's. So on the actual night of Halloween, I made my way over to the Stake Center for some old fashioned good clean Mormon fun.

My friend Eric was Edward from Twilight, I brought back "Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Rain":

My roommate was DYNAMITE, with Jeff pulled off an appropriately afro'd Richard Simmons:

Tony went ALL OUT to pull of a very impressive Edward Scissor Hands:

Anne acutally used jamba juice cups to get her hair like that! and Amy pulled off the cutest Juno I've ever seen:

Nothing like a post-dance late night diner run for pancakes and banana splits, in costume:

However, my FAVORITE part of the night was this performance by Adrienne and Sara, who had an entire group dressed as "Troop Manhattan Heels":

Halloween, Part 2: The Cutting Room Party

Brooke is a friend of mine from work, who has an event planning business on the side. So two days before Halloween, when Brooke through a huge Halloween party for a big ad agency dowtown, she invited Melissa and I along to check it out.

Melissa and Me (She was a "Major Flirt" while I was "Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Rain," I even carried a little squirt bottle with me everywhere):

Me, Melissa and Brooke:

Brooke and her boyfriend Kevin (he's the blonde):

Kevin and his friend Joe dressed as milk maids, Kevin even wore high heels:

Some of our favorite costumes of the night...

Mary Kate and Ashley masks:

Michael Phelps:

Joker in the nurse office:

Fidel Castro:

Colonel Sanders, fried chicken included:

Lars and the Real Girl (how much does he look like Ryan Gosling, seriously?):

Lindsey Lohan also showed up when Samantha Ronson came to DJ:

The party was tons of fun. I met lots of interesting and creative people, made a bunch of new friends, and was convinced yet again that New York City is the best.

Halloween, Part 1: The Great FHE Pumpkin Adventure

My calling the Manhattan 8th Ward is Family Home Evening Group Leader. So every Monday, we get together and end up laughing until our sides hurt. It is seriously the most fun you could think of.

The week of Halloween, we got very festive and decided to carve pumpkins. We had over 30 people show up (which is remarkable, because average turnout for most FHE groups is 5-10 people), and we celebrated in style.

Sarah and Jeff, Squash Artists:



Russell, with his best pumpkin face:



Matt, the pumpkin artist... He takes this very seriously...




Some people carved pumpkins, Sarah and Jane ate caramel dipped apples...



And then Jane and Joey tried to eat their pumpkin...



The glowing results...

(I'm not sure what the story is with the Jack the Jew pumpkin, honestly, I have no idea).

We called the pumpkin on the left the "Twilight" pumpkin, because it is a vampire about to bite a woman's neck, and the one on the right we called "Scarface" for obvious reasons...

Hooray for FHE! Hooray for Pumpkin Carving!