Something Strange in the Neighborhood

As you can tell, Michael and I use any excuse to dress up in costumes.  So it goes without saying that Halloween is hands down one of our favorite holidays.  Since we met, we have paraded quite the collection of couple's costumes.  Sometimes that requires me to dress like a dude (as I did for Halloween 2010 when we were Bill & Ted), and sometimes it requires several midnight panicked trips to St. Marks Street and/or Target/Walmart/K-Mart to look for last minute costume details.  This year, Halloween fell on a Monday, so that means that there is almost a week of festive activities to attend, and multiple opportunities to wear our awesome costumes.

The 2011 Meebo/College Humor Costume Champion

When we were thinking of what we could be for Halloween this year, I had one request...I had to be a female.  And after spending a day out in Soho over Columbus Day weekend during a massive biker convention, we decided to be characters from our favorite TV show, Sons of Anarchy.  Our costumes were complete with the official cuts, reaper jewelry and tons of leather. Our get-ups were debuted at Mike's company Halloween party at Crimson on Wednesday last week.  It was a huge industry extravaganza and my agency had a great showing as well as some of the greatest costumes of the night.  I'm proud to say that my planner won the entire costume competition of the night and was rewarded by College Humor & Meebo with a brand new TV!  It had nothing at all to do with the fact that she was dressed as Macho Man Randy Savage and my husband was the judge....nothing at all.

A snowstorm in OCTOBER!?!?!?

Saturday brought us some crazy weather.  We woke up on Saturday to a Nor'easter that brought rain, ice, and believe it or not, some snow!  We JUST started Autumn and we were already getting dumped with snow!  It was unbelievable.  Luckily, we were safe and did not experience any power outages, but surrounding areas weren't so lucky.  Some of my Connecticut family may be out of power for 2-3 weeks!


But nothing could stop the Mobley's from celebrating and having another excuse to dress up.  So we made minor adjustments to our costumes to be a bit more weather appropriate and headed down to the Lower East Side for the annual Novogratz Halloween party at Matt & Nadean's apartment.  As usual, our crowd of friends did not disappoint.  We can always count on our friends to come up with the most clever, detailed, and funny costumes of the year.  Nadean had a wonderful spread of food and cocktails, including a pretty lethal orange punch that crept up on you if you drank too much.  The snow and rain continued to fall through the night,but we were inside surrounded by the warmth of friends (and the warmth of restricting costumes).

Regardless of how terrible we felt waking up the next morning, we got out of bed and rallied to meet up with the Bucks to go see one of the most terrifying movies ever, Paranormal Activity 3.  Nothing says Halloween like scary movies...and the Mobleys LOVE scary movies.   Luckily, our theater was pretty empty because the four of us were terrified and made no attempts to contain our screams and "don't go in there" shouts.  Somehow, my husband thinks we need a "demon survival kit" now, because flashlights and knives can totally save you from demons and entities.

Not only do Mike and I love Halloween, but Winston happens to love the holiday as well!  He likes to dress up (regardless of what his face may look like), and he always gets extra cookies on Halloween...because he's so freakin cute.  After charming everyone last year with him lion costume (it was seriously adorable), Winston wanted to be a monkey this year.  And he was the cutest little monkey I ever saw!!!  He got to wear his monkey outfit to Wiggly Pups for a puppy party with all of his best doggee friends.  All of the little guys were so excited to show off their costumes, it was the cutest thing, and my little guy was wiped out by the time we left.

Since Halloween was on a Monday, and we had exhausted our efforts on the previous week's festivities, our real Halloween consisted of a quiet night at home with home made treats and watching scary movies together.   The same way we spend our 2009 Halloween when Winston was only 3 months old (we were afraid to leave him too long!).  And even though we don't have trick-or-treaters in our building....we had candy in the freezer just in case....looks like we'll just have to eat it now! :)


Coincidentally, I'd also like to note that Mike and celebrated 6 months of marriage this weekend!  I can't believe it's gone by so fast.  It feels like we were just walking up to the Orange County City Clerk to get our marriage license.  But here we are 6 months later getting ready for our first holiday season as a married couple. The next few months are going to be such a blast, and I can't wait to share it all on my blog!