Haunted Heats Surf Competition

A few days before Halloween, some of the guys at church told David about a 'Haunted Heats' surf competition at Santa Monica beach. It was great because surfers of all skill levels could participate--no pressure. We had a BLAST!  The catch was--everyone involved had to be in costume. There were some amazing costumes! David dressed as 'Carl' the redneck (which Andy Phillips won't stop calling him no matter how hard I beg!). Pehrson dressed up as George W. Bush, and Bridger was Russell from Up.

There were all sorts of other costumes, too!

Pehrson had rigged up this really cool platform (like he was giving a speech). The first time he got up, the platform came up out of the water and he rode the wave in "giving a speech." It was great and he ended up winning the competition.

 Bridger's balloons were also a big hit with the judges. David's mullet kept falling off, and he was constantly chasing after it. Luckily, the mullet survived (although secretly some of us were hoping it would sink to the bottom of the sea floor.) But, because he had to keep chasing after it, he didn't perform his best. After he took of the mullet and the redneck garb he got some good waves.

Afterward, the sponsors provided lunch and we had fun swimming at the beach for a few more hours. It was great! What more can you ask than to spend a fun filled day at the BEACH in October. Sweet.

Truck-Or-Treat

The Friday before Halloween we had our ward Trunk-Or-Treat. It was great because it gave us an excuse to dress up!  Now, those who have seen our old blog (the one that I never updated and eventually had to get rid of because I forgot the password...yeah) will recognize what we dressed up as for Halloween. We wore these costumes for our first Halloween married, but since we were in a new state we figured 'what the heck!' and repeated them.

Ta Da! The Filthy Lukers. Except this time, we added a mullet for David and I added a few dollar store curlers. Nice touch, eh? The best part was, we told a few of our friends we were keeping our costumes a secret until the party. Some of them threatened to copy our idea, and we just laughed. Because there's no possible way!!  Many of our friends had super cute costumes too. Sadly, I don't have pictures of all of them, but I have a few cute ones, so let me know if you want to see what I've got.

David's One Year Older And Wiser Too Celebration

So, this year my Halloween-baby turned 27!!! The celebration started on Friday when we got up really early to be first ones in line at Disneyland. SO worth it!

Check this out--hardly any wait on most of the rides! We hit up nearly every one we wanted to and we were only there for 3 hours!

 You can barely see it in the picture but Space Mountain had a wait time of 10 minutes! We also walked right on Splash Mountain! David sat in the front so that I could use him as a human shield from the flying water. :)

Please also notice David jumping for joy because of all the fun we were having! And, we got to catch the Haunted Mansion with its new Halloween decorations. I can't say I've even seen The Nightmare Before Christmas (which is the new theme), but it was still pretty darn cool.

Please excuse the random family in the background--they're not with us.

After Disneyland, we rushed back home because David had class at one. I'm proud to say we made it with plenty of time to spare!

On Saturday, David was in a Haunted Surf Competition. It was so awesome! Anyone of all skill levels could enter, but the catch was everyone had to dress up. I'll post more pictures about this later!


Saturday night I blindfolded David and took him to a Thai restaurant that was recommended to us. Too bad, in spite of all my intentional and unintentional wrong turns, he still knew exactly where we were!  We enjoyed two of our favorite dishes--Panang Curry and Nam Tok. The owners talked to David in Thai and brought us out special fried bananas because it was his birthday.

Yum! So little time, never enough Thai food! On Sunday (the actual birthday) we opened presents and I made dinner (which was delish if I do say so myself!) We topped the day off with banana cake (which David requested, and which was also scrumptious) and blew out candles.

Happy Birthday, David!

Caramel Apple-ing!...?

Caramel Apple-ing? Am I even allowed to say that?! The sad thing about this post is that I spent forever writing all about our fun 'Caramel Apple Night' only for my post to vanish! So, weeks later here I am starting all over again.

Mandy and I had been dying for caramel apples ever since we saw a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Huntington Beach. A few weeks later at Downtown Disney we saw even more delicious caramel apples and decided to make some of our own! 

It was a great adventure. We had crushed oreos, nuts, chocolate, brown sugar, caramel corn, sprinkles and probably a few other things I've forgotten. Some apples were fancy and perfect, others were made sloppily and eaten sloppily ( I won't mention names) but it was good fun. The true hero of the night was the apple slicer, which we discovered part way through eating them, which made it so much easier!

The Millers came over and posed with this Oh-So-Perfect apple, although I think the apple actually belonged to Mike. :)

Afterward, Blair suggested we play "Human Clue." Basically, team one goes in another room while team two picks the who, what and where. They act it out to one person on team one. Then that person has to pass on what they can remember to the next person on their team and so on (kind of like telephone). The funny part is that so much gets lost that by the end you're nowhere close. Let's just say we ended up doing the moonwalk, shooting guns (which came out of nowhere!) and acting like the headless horseman. By the way, I have video footage of each of the girls doing the moonwalk available upon request. ;) Here's my attempt. No mocking!!

Overall, a great night and an excellent celebration of the season!