I wasn't really planning on carving a pumpkin this year because I didn't have much time, but I ended up with about 2 hours of free time on Halloween day so I decided to go ahead and carve the pumpkin my aunt had given us. I'm not very artistic and didn't have a ton of time, so I just used the bats from our wall as a stencil.
It took me so long to make them that I actually finished Chrisser's about 10 minutes before we left for the dance lab on Thursday. And by finished I mean I safety-pinned the last couple things because I didn't have time to sew them. And Chrisser actually had to finish sewing the feather boas onto my skirt while I worked on his costume. And actually, there is a chunk of the layer with black boas that is missing a boa because we ran out of time. Oh well. Everybody loved us anyway. A lot of people couldn't quite figure out who we were until we told them, but they still loved how fancy Chrisser's outfit was. So I'll call it a success anyway.
Our festivities included the social dance lab and a ward party. The ward party included a chili cook-off and costume contest. It was kind of funny trying to vote in the costume contest, because they split the children's categories into boys and girls, but there were several children that we couldn't figure out if they were a boy or a girl! Some of them we knew because we know the family, but the newer families we were totally clueless on. The winners ended up being Captain America for the boys and an elephant for the girls. The adults that won were Zelda and the Phantom of the Opera, and the family that won was a family of pandas (who can resist a baby panda?).
