Halloween/Military Ball

Hello!

Well, this week has definitely been a blast. A scary movie per night and lots of Halloween fun! For Halloween we were planning on having little kids come trick-or-treat at our apartment, but we stayed out shopping (for our last minute costumes) too long and missed the time. So we hurried to get into costume and then went to the Halloween Hollywood party at the Heritage central building. Here's some pictures of our costumes...
Mr. Green with a wrench...Colonel Mustard with a HUGE neon colored revolver... :] You can see me in the back as Miss Scarlet... I don't have any pictures of just me, so I'll have to wait until I can get them from the others.And I just loved this close up of Mallory as Colonel Mustard... she is SO creative with her costumes. None of us could have pulled off Colonel Mustard like she did. Of course, none of us would have wanted to glue cotton balls to our face, either. Mallory didn't think about how painful it would be to take off the cotton balls glued to her eyebrows... :]
Mrs. White, cleaning the kitchen... her lead pipe is somewhere...
Mrs. Peacock with a rope...
Professor Plum with a candlestick.

I had the knife tied to my calf... but it kept falling off, even though we looped it through my fishnet stockings, so I ended up tying it to my wrist, which STILL didn't work that well.
And here is the whole Clue gang :]

Anyways, the party looked like fun, but a lot of people in our group were tired and didn't want to stay, so we ended up inviting over a bunch of people and recreated our movie/sleepover setup in the kitchen, complete with three mattresses and the couch on top of the table again. We watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and a little over half of Wallace and Grommit and the Curse of the Wererabbit. Here's some pictures of the people there...This is Alan (Julie's friend Alan, not the Alan who drove us to watch the movie).
This is Cameron, a guy from our ward, and one of Mallory's friends.
Here's most of the people who came over... There's Waldo (from Where's Waldo?), a baby, a fairy, a guy who didn't dress up (Matt), and Pepper Potts (from Iron Man).
Julie on top of the couch on top of the table... :]

Unfortunately, curfew rolled around before the Wallace and Grommit movie was over, and so we had to kick out the guys and some of the girls left with them... and then we just never started the movie again. But we had two other friends come over to visit, Eric and Alan, and we just sat in the doorway of our apartment to talk to them. After about an hour we decided we really wanted to watch a scary movie on Halloween of all nights--but it was past curfew, so they couldn't come inside, and we aren't allowed to watch movies in the lobby because there's legal issues involved. So we piled a bunch of us into Alan's tiny car and drove to the park just a little off campus where there is a picnic area with an overhang and a little stage. We made ourselves cozy with a bunch of blankets on the stage and watched Prom Night (which really wasn't scary at all--Somers, Mallory, and I have yet to see a scary movie since coming here that actually scares us).

We ended up coming home at about 3:30 in the morning, and then us girlies piled onto our mattresses in the kitchen for a sleepover. Of course we talked forever, and so we didn't get to bed till about 4/4:30. Julie woke us up at 11:40 yelling "Holy cow we slept in till almost noon! We have to get ready!" because Alan (Julie's friend, not the one who took us to see the movie) was going to take Julie and I to the mall to find her a black satin bolero to go with her GORGEOUS dress I helped her find for the Military Ball that Scott was taking her to that night. So we hurried to get ready and Alan picked us up. We found the PERFECT one--but it was only available in a size two sizes too big for her, and so we settled on another one that still looked good, just not as good as the other one. :]

As soon as we came back we were frantically hurrying to get her ready because we'd spent too much time at the mall. Scott came when I was still finishing her makeup, so we made Somers, Krista, and Mallory run out and distract him while I hurried to finish getting her all ready. And when she opened the door to go out, his jaw literally fell open and he gasped, and it was the cutest thing we'd seen! He couldn't stop smiling, which of course means that SHE couldn't stop smiling. She looked so pretty!!! Here's some pictures...

Once she left, Somers, Krista, and I went over to Eric and Alan's to watch the second half of the football game (which was MAJORLY frustrating). And later Somers and I went over to a party in A. Richards hall in one of the girl's rooms, where they'd taken out the lights and replaced them with blacklights, and they'd decorated the place up for Halloween and had a huge stereo system. So there was a big party going on in their kitchen from about 9 to midnight, and that was a LOT of fun--although cramming about fifty people into a tiny kitchen and then having them all DANCE equals a really really hot room. They cranked the AC way up to try to keep the room cooler, but all that happened from that was people would crowd around the little vents on the sides of the rooms in an attempt to get cooler. :]

Anyways, this weekend has been a LOT of fun. Today on our way back from church it started pouring, and we all got soaked to the bone, but it was fun. We're all glad that it rained, cause we just LOVE the rain and when the sky is all overcast. Of course, running over to Scott's ward's break-the-fast in the rain wasn't too fun since my shoes got soaked through and were uncomfortable, but whatever. His chili won in their chili contest, and there was a LOT of cornbread and yummy chili to eat. And later at our OWN break-the-fast (which was just dinner for us, since we'd already broken it) we had a lot of fun getting to know our new FHE brother, Mitchell a bit. We've actually met him before, randomly when we were sitting in our stairwell and he was coming down and introduced himself and we talked for a bit. But apparently he's switched rooms for some reason, and is now in our ward. Greg, our FHE dad, had a roommate, but he ended up dropping out for this semester and so Greg had no roommate... and we only had three FHE brothers. For some reason their apartment has less people than others... they only had 4, whereas most have 6. Anyways, so Mitchell has moved in with Greg, and is now in our ward and our FHE group. We had a yummy dinner over at their apartment and watched a couple episodes of The Office. :]

Anyways, so I've been having a blast. But I can't wait to go home, as well! Only 21 days left!!!

-Cate