Halloween 2016

I love Halloween. I love dressing up and going out!

Luckily the office I work for gets super into Halloween. Remember last year?!

Last year we didn't win best office...unfortunately. So we were pretty determined to win this year!

This year the options for dressing up were: Star Wars, comic books, and Peter Pan.

Peter Pan tooootally won! (Yay!)

Here's a close(er) shot of my make up that my super talented friend did! (I could never do it that well on my own!)

"Team Take Down" The 3 of u work for Todd Seamons, the best PA I've ever known and one of the greatest people I've ever known! Seriously, you should meet this guy.

Now to start preparing for next Halloween! Any ideas??

Audrey Jo

Happy Halloweenie!

So I always love Halloween and always want to get way into dressing up but I never actually do. I'm always the kind of person that gets their homemade costume ready the day before or the day of Halloween.

Not this year folks.

Apparently I chose the perfect office to work at because they go all out on Halloween.

Last year they all dressed up as characters from Harry Potter and the pictures looked awesome!

This year when we were trying to decide what to dress up as there were quite a few ideas thrown out. Some of them were: Lord of the Rings, Super Mario, Peter Pan, and a few others. We eventually decided on Disney Villains. And I was so excited! 

Naturally, in my mind I decided to dress up as Scar, from The Lion King. Because they aren't enough human villains apparently (HA!).But really. I was so excited. I had it all planned out in my head!

Luckily I work with an incredibly talented artist that was willing to paint my face for the day!

I woke up nice and early to do my hair then headed to the office so she could paint my face before patients started to show up! It almost took an hour and it was so worth the time of not moving, not smiling, and not itching my face.

She did such an awesome job! Like...patients didn't even recognize me!

(Keep in mind these pictures we all taken on different camera phones!)

Every year they block out schedules and shut down the office for a few hours for all of us to head to Malawi's Pizza for lunch. They Have a giant tree in the middle of the restaurant. So naturally I take a picture by it in my "natural element."

 This is the amazing artist herself as Ursula. Can you believe she made those tentacles herself?! She for reals is amazing.

So here is the whole gang. You'll find:

The evil step sisters and her mom with Lucifer the Cat, Captain hook, Dr Callighan, Jafar, Cruela De Vil, Yzma, Ursula, Darla, the old hag from Snow White, Mother Gothel, and Gru with his minion. (With a couple pirates in there too.)

And we were totally not all ready for this pic by the way. I mean, how easily can 18 people and a baby all be ready for a picture at the same time?

So basically, this was the best Halloween ever! Well...best day-before Halloween ever!

So what are we going to be next year?!

xoxo

Simply Stephens

Recap of my Halloween filled weekend

My wonderful weekend was all about Halloween!

And it was awesome!

Friday

On Friday I planned on going to a haunted house with some of my friends from work. 

I don't always do well with scary things...

But I was so excited for this!

I got off work at about 4:30 and we were planning on meeting at 6.

That gave me just enough time to go home, shower, and greet my wonderful husband before ditching him for the night.

When I got to their apartment complex it took me like 10 minutes of wandering around and being a little prideful to find their apartment. 

I wanted to be able to find it myself without calling them. But that didn't work!

The apartment number they gave me did not even exist. Gotta love typos!

So finally after I humbled myself I called them, found them, and we were on our way!

We stopped at Red Robin (Yuummm) which is seriously yum.

(By the way, Josh didn't think that was as funny as I thought it was. But I wrote it anyways).

After eating our burgers, fries, and shakes we left on our way to the 

Castle of Chaos

There are 4 levels of scary for this haunted house. 

Level 1: I'm not exactly sure what this level is all about...

Level 2: the actors weren't allowed to touch us.

Level 3: The actors could touch and grab us, but not drag us.

Level 4: The actors could touch, grab, drag, put bags over our heads, separate us from our group, and move us to different rooms.

We thought we were all brave and were planning to just do level 2. 

Then last minute we changed our minds to do the level 3! 

Oh my gosh...I was so scared!

The 4 of us made a chain by linking arms and did not let go!

Things got pretty cray-cray in the Castle of Chaos.

Somehow amongst all of the freaking out and running...the bobby pin of the girl next to me ended up on the back of my head. 

I still don't know how it ended up there! 

And even though I practically peed my pants...

I survived.

Saturday

Sometimes I have to convince Josh to go on dates with me. 

But I'm okay with that. Because he always (usually) says yes!

This time I invited him to go to Gardner Village for Witches Night Out.

I am so glad we went!

First of all...I just love Gardner Village. There are so many adorable shops to look at.

And I never realized how girly the shops are until I had Josh there with me. 

In the past when I've gone it was always with my mother, aunts, and cousins.

Apparently Witches Night Out is the busiest night of the year! And I definitely saw why!

There were women and children everywhere dressed up as witches

with husbands and dads following behind.

Some of them got way into it with awesome costumes while others just wore a pointy hat.

I didn't dress up at all! Whoops.

It was just such a fun atmosphere with so many fun things going on around the village.

There were old ladies dancing to popular songs,

Face painting,

And sales in most of the shops!!

Of course I was drawn to the shop that was full of yarn of every color I could imagine!

I only let myself buy 1 thing though. And it only cost us $4.

It was so hard to hold back!

When we decided to head home we were starving! And what sounded good to us, you ask?

Oreo shakes.

So we made a stop at the grocery store on our way home to get the supplies.

The rest of the night was cuddling, Netflix, and Oreo shakes.

Such a fun date night!!

And I definitely recommend going to Witches Night Out next year. 

It was a blast!!

xoxo

Simply Stephens