New Paltz Halloween 2.0

Celebrated Halloween for the second year in a row! Of course, we did our tradition of carving pumpkins! We each did two pumpkins. Mine were a four-eyed monster and one with lots of sharp, narrow teeth. Marc decided to try the shaving of the pumpkin flesh and play with a smoke bomb in one of his pumpkin's mouth. We had a blast carving them. We also attempted to enter them into The Bakery's Pumpkin Carving Contest...clearly the judges do not know artistic good taste when they see it! haha. Just kidding! But year, we did not win. Next Year is the Year! haha. As for costumes, we were a little late on the planning committee, so it was a good year to reuse what we had in the costume box - a penguin from ski school/gaper day and a twirler from high school. Yup. Do not hate, just enjoy.

TheChristyBel

Our Pumpkins Lit Up

Smoke Bomb!
Also, this temporarily stained our kitchen table cloth!

My Two Favorite Heroines From the Mountain House!

F*ck Couples Costumes!
Happy Halloween from a Twirler and Her Penguin!

Halloween 2015

Snapshots From Halloween 2015! Hey, that rhymed! Haha! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

TheChristyBel

Carving Pumpkins with Friends!
From Left to Right: Kim, Noah, Marc, & theChristy

My Scary Looking Pumpkin!

Our Halloween Costumes: Gillian & Garrett Toman
We thought this would be appropriate for us dress up like them because we lived with them for a month!

Garrett & Garrett

Gillian & Gillian

The New Paltz Halloween Parade is RIDICULOUS!
It's a big deal here. The whole town and surrounding towns fill up the streets to celebrate!
A pretty cool experience!

Happy Halloween 2014!

Ceira & I at the Safe Treat

Friday evening I went and helped man a booth for the Safe Treat event held at the UW's Student Union. The Safe Treat event is where a whole bunch of clubs, organizations, and groups get together and hold a huge party event and Trick-Or-Treating opportunity for all the children of Laramie. I guess its a way, to 'safely' go around and collect candy instead of walking the dark streets for the Halloween candy-collecting traditions.

So I represented NSTA (National Science Teacher Association) with my science methods classmates. At our booth, we had a variety of science questions that children would pick a question, answer it, and be able to grab a piece of candy, or a few handfuls...

It was super fun. There were so many children and families. Literally, when I walked into the Union for my shift, I could not really walk through the place - so many kids, families, adults, and really crazy outfits.

A Kid Dressed as a Tornado! Genius!

This year the main popular costumes were: the two princesses from Frozen, Elsa & Ana (let me tell you, if I could take a shot of alcohol for every Frozen character I saw at Safe Treat, I would be drunk within the first 5-minutes), Minions from Despicable Me, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a variety of other costumes that I cannot remember. One was really cool: a kid dressed up in lots of tulle and stuffing, as a tornado!!! How cool is that!?!?

But yea, Safe Treat was pretty fun. Hanging with the Science Methods classmates has been really awesome and just a great community to be in and out of class with. After the Safe Treat event, we all went our separate ways for dinner and reconvened at one of our houses for our own Halloween celebrations. Below are photos from the night: starting out at Jake's house to adventuring down town at Born in a Barn & 3rd Street Bar. 

Oh, so this year, again, I made my costume. No it was not Zombie Lady Gaga, a Native American, a Buccaneer, a Peacock, or a Zombie Ballerina - but a Deer...a Doe-A-Deer! It was super easy! Just got a brown long-sleeve, brown spandex, an antler head-band, and lots of brown, white, and black makeup and well, 45-minutes later of putting the make-up on...and you have a deer! Super easy and low-budget!

Halloween Selfie While Playing Mexican Twister

Object of the Game: Start in a Toe-to-Toe Circle
Go Around the Circle Matching The Foot That Was Previously Touched to the Inside of the Person Next to You.
It's a Fun, Hilarious Game.

Ceira & Susan

Steph & Ceira
(My Phone Was Hijacked for Selfies)

Science Methods Fun & Love

My Costume: A Deer & My Lumberjack! haha.
Photo was Taken When Marc was Attempting to Save my Drink From Falling

Science Methods Love All Around

Group Selfie During a Hug

Ran Into My Neighbor Holli at 3rd Street Bar!
Best Almost Roomie Ever!

Adorbs.

Science Methods Kids Group Picture!

Happy Halloween! Totally Beats Last Year's Haunted Halloween Trail. At least we weren't in the snow and cold all night!

TheChristyBel

Jack O'Lanterns Time

So when Marc and I went to Boulder (the first time) our friends, Meg and Matt, carved some really awesome pumpkins. So feeling the Halloween Spirit, we bought some carving pumpkins at Whole Foods. It took us, what, two weeks later to actually sit down and carve them. I was studying and doing homework all morning today, and for our 'Brain Break' we decided to sit down and plan out what to carve, and actually carve our pumpkins! Made a pit stop at Safeway to buy a pumpkin carving kit and got back to plan what we were going to do.

It was so nice out, that we carved our pumpkins outside my apartment! Marc decided to carve out a scary Jack O'Lantern face, named Fred, while I wanted to draw out an owl. Marc found a really cool idea online and so I just free-hand drew it from the screen. Check out our process and photos! And!!!! Our FINISHED Products! We were totally excited to light them this evening when it got super dark out! Enjoy!

The Blue Prints for Our Pumpkins

Taking Out the Seeds...the Gross Part!

Carving Time!

The Finished Products?!
We Have a Potential Career in Pumpkin Carving, Right?

My Owl!

Fred, the Scary Jack O'Lantern

The Night Glowing-Finale!

Happy Early Halloween!
TheChristyBel

Happy Halloween From the 20th TSS Grad Class

We hope you have a the scariest, spookiest, most terrifying Halloween yet!

Several of the TSS Grads Zombie-fied for the Young Women in Science Haunted Trail Hike!
Photo Credit to Fellow TSS Graduate Student, Heather Wakeman

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Xoxo,

TheChristyBel

aka a Zombie Ballerina