Halloween 2011 - Part 2

We wrapped up Saturday by hanging out at home for most of the night.  Steven and Grant went to see Thrice at the Granada, and we watched Netflix!  Yay for getting old and boring!  After they were finished at the show, Eric brought them home along with a friend of Stevens, and then we all headed back out to walk around Mass Street to ogle the costumes.  

Sunday, once we had eaten some breakfast, Eric told everyone to get ready for some golf!  We spent the afternoon at the driving range near Eudora, and then said our goodbyes so Eric and I could head to Overland Park for our Dave Ramsey class.  

It's lucky Steven has a key to our apartment!  Yesterday, he found a present for his dad - but Eric and I were already on our way to Overland Park when he realized that he had left it in our house.

Look at those golfing boys!

Steven with his trick ball. 

And I golfed too!

Halloween 2011 - Part 1

We had a great time on Friday night at a house party with our Lawrence friends.  I slacked and missed pictures of most of the people - oops!

Our costume! 

 Eric as The Stig - the driver from Top Gear

 Me with Sara Mae - she's the one who owns Moonshine, the crazy cat the Eric and I have cat-sat a few times.

Eric drinking with his helmet on. 

NBC's The Cape.  They can choke you from a midrange distance! 

Shannon and Taylor. 

 Steven and Grant

Brian and Eric shot gunning.

I was washing my makeup off in the car...the eye makeup took quite a bit of convincing.  Eric just about died laughing at how serious my face looked.

On Saturday, we all woke up for a cinnamon roll and egg breakfast, and then went back to sleep for a 4 hour nap!

Day 134: Halloween Weekend Part 2

After last nights events, Eric was happy to sleep in until he had to go to work.  I ended up getting up early to go to confirmation class and church.  I hung out around Mom and Alan's house with Mom, Kris, Ashley, and Andrew for the rest of the afternoon.


Mom and I went to the Dave Ramsey class where we learned about saving money through bargaining.  AND Paul cut up one of his credit cards!  Hooray!


After class, Mom and I met Kris, Ashley, and Andrew at Todd & Kath's house.  We joined them and their daughter Belle, while their son, Zach, stayed home to watch football and give out candy.  Andrew's first Halloween was a great success.  People at the houses loved him and he did a good job grabbing candy out of the bowls.


After I got home from trick-or-treating, Eric and I shared some candy and had Subway for dinner while he watched TV and I worked on a school project.  Goodnight!

Mom put a black spiderweb ribbon on Grammy's tree.

I locked Chaos in the kennel with Juneau.

Paul cut up a credit card!!!

Belle was a great vampire!

Kath and the super cute skeleton, Andrew!

Creepy daddy with cute baby.

Andrew glows in the dark!

Kris photo bombed the ladies.

The trick-or-treaters!

Andrew's very first trick-or-treat house!

Andrew was really good at taking candy out of the buckets!

Andrew's box kept overfilling, so Kath helped him pour it into his pockets!

Mom was there too!

Ashley's stockings kept falling down and she chose to adjust them in the middle of the street.

We found a woman dressed just like Ashley!

Creepiness all around!

Creepy and cute!

Goodnight from the Wenberg family!

Day 133: Halloween Weekend Part 1

Eric worked today, during the day, and we had a really fun night party hopping.  During the day I was with Jack - the boy I nanny for over the summer.  We went to tennis lessons in Kansas City, then to the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Science City, and U.S. Toy.  In the afternoon we watched a movie and took Papa's dog on a walk.  After I dropped him off with his grandparents, I headed home to get ready for our Halloween outings.

We started off by going to a party with a bunch of our mutual friends.  There was great music, fun costumes, conversations and dancing.  When we left, there was a costumed guy in the shadows calling out "are you good to drive" to everyone who passed, which was pretty funny but practical nonetheless.  I was sober all night, only drinking Dr. Pepper, so no worries there!  After that we headed over to the Sunflower House to meet some of Eric's work friends.  They had a live band and a lot of traffic with some pretty interesting costumes.

All in all - a pretty good day, but we've had better Halloween's.  Here's to hoping for something spectacular next year!

Jack and I at the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum

 Blacklight party!

Chris, the "coke" head, and Mr. Pibb

Chris T's costume had a working switch that turned him on and off (or at least the blue lights on the front of the costume)!

Day 131: Adventures Galore!

Today was a no-good-very-bad day for me at work, and I came home grumpy.  I made Eric skip his class to keep me company, and we ended up having a really great night.  Strange as it sounds, we started out by paying all of our bills for the month.  Then we went to the Lawrence Public Schools Health Fair where I got a flu shot and both of us got trinkety prizes from various places with booths set up.

Then we went to Prairie Park for my elementary school's Fall Potluck and Trick-or-Treating.  We had an awesome (and free) dinner, and then we got to hand out candy to the kids.  The crowd didn't look too big, so we were giving away 2 pieces at a time...but then more and more kids came and we ran out!  Oops!

Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb make their elementary debut!

Day 127: Pumpkins & Bikes

We attended our first Halloween party of the year last night, and put our two costumes together, spending less than $10!  I was Dr. Pepper and Eric was Mr. Pibb!  Steven & Leslie were a pair of gym coaches, Edie was a witch, and Phil was a zombie.  Most of the people at the party participated in Steven's Coors Light Chugging Contest - Eric and Steven tied with 8.25 seconds, and Paul was in 3rd place with something like 12 seconds.  I drank mine in 2 minutes and 32 second, woo!!!

Later in the night we carved pumpkins, watched a movie, and shot some air soft guns.  I carved the 1912 Jayhawk and it turned out amazing!  Eric carved a pumpkin in a pumpkin, in a pumpkin, in a pumpkin, on his pumpkin.

Eric dropped me off at church for confirmation class with Ashley, then we headed out for an afternoon on the motorcycles.  Mom, Alan, Eric and I rode out to Gardner, spending around 2.5 hours out in the wind.  It was an awesome ride!

i posted fliers about Dave Ramsey's Great Giving Challenge all over town - don't forget to vote every day!

Our family of pumpkins!  Eric is the big orange pumpkin, I'm the medium green pumpkin, Mystic is the stripey white and green one, and the butt shaped orange one is Addy!

Steven and Leslie's costumes!

Mr. Pibb & Dr. Pepper!

The tied winners of the Coors Chugging contest.

Steven's Boba Fett pumpkin.

I cards a 1912 Jayhawk and our two kitties.

Eric's masterpiece!

We need a better candle to light it up well.

Steven made a badass mean pumpkin.

Grammy's tree is growing strong, now there's a new yellow ribbon.

The four of us in leather at the Taco Bell in Gardner.

Mom suggested I take some pictures while we were riding.

Eric and I at a stoplight.

Left-bottom to top-center: Me, Eric, Mom, & Alan.