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Me as Cupcake!

Halloween was so much fun! One of the best Halloweens on record.

My costume was so fun! The pink poo happily turned into a cupcake! It was probably my best costume since I was Jesus voting for John Kerry the Halloween before the 2004 election. And this costume doesn’t come with the three weeks of depression that followed the outcome of that election! Yay!

I got the idea from this foodnetwork.com child’s version.

PT as Chris Kimball

But mine is a lot better because I can sit down. Cardboard bottom? Seriously, Food Network?

Mine is also better because I made myself a candle headband! But I can see why they wouldn’t want something so phallic sticking out of a child’s head.

I didn’t mind!

Mine is also better because I cut a slit in the inside of the bottom frosting layer and used it as a purse, so I didn’t have to carry anything! And I made my sprinkles out of yarn. Of course!

PT was Chris Kimball from America’s Test Kitchen. People who knew who Chris Kimball was kept freaking out over his costume!

The Real Chris Kimball

He did a great job! I painted the little logo on the front of that apron and we were ready to go.

Off to Our First Party

Mark (three hole punch Mark), Dan (Don Draper), Jamie (a hot doll), and Mary (Betty Draper), and me and PT, ran into Lloyd Dobler on the Western bus.

Pic by Jamie

It was magic.

We ran around to different parties like crazy people. I even won a costume contest for my cupcake! It was a great night.

Mary Eats Me (Pic by Jamie)

But by the end of it, it was getting dangerous for me to be out.

Roasted Potatoes with Sage

Before heading out on Halloween night I cooked up some roasted potatoes and veggies with some fresh sage we had left over from Friday. If I single leaf of  that $7.20 sage goes bad I’m going to be so upset!

I used white kidney beans, carrots, onion, and sage. It was great!

PT and Pizza

Pt's Pizza

Yesterday we were back to our pizza Sundays! It was just what the hang over doctor ordered. PT made a green pepper, pineapple, artichoke heart, mushroom and bacon pizza, though he can’t even take his eyes off football for the picture!

My Pizza

I made a green pepper, artichoke heart, mushroom, and pineapple pizza. We haven’t had mushrooms in the house for quite a while, so we both went a little mushroom crazy.

My Slouchy Beret pattern is getting so much love! I can’t wait to see some finished hats! If you’ve got one let me know!

Chris and Anne Getting Married

I’m not very good at being a girl on the outside, with the sports and the talking about poop a lot,

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Bride and Groom Poos

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but there is some switch in my brain that girls-out at weddings. I cry like I’m watching The Biggest Loser! Luckily for me Saturday did have a couple moments where I could swear and text about football so I didn’t give myself away.

Just Like Being in West Michigan!

Albino Squirrel!

The wedding was beautiful and very sweet and as distantly involved as I was in relation to everyone else, I was truly honored to get as close as I did.

Tower O' Cupcakes

Gnome Chris and Anne

The reception was held upstairs at The Happy Gnome in St Paul, so there were gnomes on the tables and the bride and groom gnomes on the top of the cupcake tower.

Cupcake tower of amazing cupcakes! I might have eaten 12 of them, but not until after dinner.

Haley Sneaks Some Chicken

PT Eats Steak

My Dinner

The cupcakes looking at us (and all the drinking) made everyone, well, at least me, very anxious for dinner. And PT gave me a little sneak peak at the dinner menu, so I was ready to eat as soon as I walked into the restaurant.

The dinners, which were super good, were brought out dish by dish, not table by table, so for a while my only dinner was a mint, while everyone else ate up.

Everyone except Mark, that is.

Mark, The Gentleman

FOOD!

The Flying V

The Boys Bow to Chris and Anne

The secret meeting on Friday was dance practice! The boys worked in the first Mighty Ducks reference of the weekend. Usually everyone lives and breathes The Mighty Ducks, so I knew something had to be up.

PT Gave His Speach

We Posed for Pictures

Little Drunk Dancing

Or, A Lot

A Whole Lot

We had a seriously great time. There was no drama, no one got drunk and hurt themselves, no one spilled on Anne’s dress.

Me and PT

I didn’t even spill on my dress! Which held up very well! I even threw it in the washer at PT’s mom’s house because it still smelled a little like dye. I got quite a few compliments on it, twirled all over the dance floor, and I could throw my camera in my pocket.

The only bad thing that happened was Michigan lost embarrassingly to Iowa in prime time.

(See! Football! Poop! Football! Me? Cry at a wedding? Yeah, right.)