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Halloween Prep

Halloween is Sammy's favorite holiday. It's also one of mine. I just love the skeletons and jack-o-lanterns, and all the colors of Halloween. 
Sammy and I have had quite a few Halloweens together. Our first Halloween I was sick the day of, so he came over and watched a movie with me, which was so sweet. We did have costumes, we dressed up as Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron for a Halloween party the week before Halloween. While it was fun, I don't like buying pre-made costumes because we spent a bit of money on those suits and literally only wore them for a few hours at a friends Halloween party. Plus, they weren't the most flattering and no pictures of that have survived.

 Our second Halloween I was in the dorms and he was on 'trick or treat duty.' Literally, he wasn't allowed to leave home on Halloween because his dad wanted him to hand out candy.  He went as a rational consumer, and I was Elle Woods. 
That was one of my favorite costumes because I was able to throw it together with my closet and borrowing a few things from Joice. That's how you do Halloween! 

Our third Halloween I 'dressed up' as Tris from Divergent. Sammy drew on the birds for me. That was good, but still, no couples costume. 
The next year I dressed up for Day of the Dead and Sammy was Clark Kent. 
Last year I'd really been hoping to do a couple's costume. We'd been debating things all year. However, we were invited to a Halloween party where your costume had to have a twist, and I decided to be a punk Hermione because that was easy. Sammy waited until the last moment, literally, and we were scavenging the Halloween stores the morning of looking for zombie makeup. He has a thing for zombies which I don't understand. When we couldn't find any, I did my best to try and make him look like a zombie and instead he just looked tired. I told him to tell people he was an overworked Clark Kent. 

BUT
This year, this year we are going to have a couple's costume. Let me set the scene. We were putting our laundry away while watching Parks and Rec, our favorite show. It was a Halloween episode and bam!

There it is.
Sammy was actually the one who said it. I think it's because he wants to wear the thin mustache. I couldn't believe it when he said he wanted to be the Princess Bride. That's like every girls dream, and Sammy was the one who brought it up, not me! I had to act quickly, so I got it in writing.

I'm so excited! Now we have to start putting everything together. See you in October!


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