October

October was a busy but fun month.  Chrisser got to dance in BYU's Homecoming Parade with the ballroom teams again this year, and I ran along the route with them taking pictures and videos.  I was focusing more on getting as many pictures of as many people as I could so they could all have their awesomeness documented, so I didn't get quite as many good pictures of Chrisser as I did last year.  Scratch that, I hardly got any of him.  Oops.  But he is in these:

He's dead center in this picture.

And on the far right in this one.

I actually don't feel too bad about not getting tons of pictures of Chrisser, though, because a) I got several last year and he looks pretty much the same, and b) everybody else is constantly telling me how much they love the fact that I take pictures and videos of all their dance things and post them on Facebook for them.  Sometimes I kinda feel like a celebrity that no one actually knows, haha.  They just know my name and that I'm Chrisser's wife and that I record everything.

Nothing really picture-worthy happened between the parade and Halloween.  Just lots of school for Chrisser, work for me, and dance practice for us both.  One of our friends is a dance major and has asked us to be in her senior showcase, for which she had to choreograph something.  So we've been spending many evenings at rehearsals for that, and we've also been trying to prepare to compete open Smooth at Dancesport this month.  Hopefully I'll have pictures of those things that I can post after they've happened.

Then of course Halloween happened.  We never got a chance to go shopping for decorations together, but I put up a few things that either we already had or that I made really quick.

I also made an Oreo Cheesecake and put food coloring in it so it would be orange and black.

We decided to be Mary Poppins and Bert this year.  Everyone at the social dance lab (basically just a dance for all the people in a social dance class at BYU) loved us.  They were particularly intrigued by Chrisser's chimney sweep broom, which I had made from a dustpan handle, a chunk of styrofoam, and bristles that we yanked out of a couple of brooms.  It turned out surprisingly well.  I love it when I have an idea that actually works :).  I also had to make my hat out of a poster board.  Kinda weird, but you know what?  There were two other girls dressed as Mary Poppins at the lab, and my hat definitely looked the most like the one in the movie :D.  I wished I could have gone all out and made her overcoat and scarf, too, but I just didn't have the time or the money.

Oh, I almost forgot our pumpkins.  I guess I should really say my pumpkins because Chrisser never had time to carve his so I did it for him at the last second, but whatever.  Once again, I just didn't have time to be creative with them, so I just did pretty generic faces.  I'm hoping next year won't be quite so crazy...