A Halloween of Firsts

Here we are...yet another holiday closer to Christmas! Is it just me or do you feel like once Halloween hits, it's pretty much time to bust out the stockings?

I know...I know...technically Halloween isn't until Wednesday but once you reach my age, you celebrate holidays the weekend before unless you automatically get the following day off work. In this case, I will not be taking off on Thursday and therefore, in my eyes, Halloween is officially over.

Lets go ahead and say that Halloween 2012 marked a lot of "firsts" in my book:

*First of the firsts...there was no nap involved this year. Nope. Not even a one. I went from tailgating, to a football game and then to a house party without one single yawn. Ok-I yawned.  And I may or may not have made a pit stop for the largest Red Bull the gas station carried but my eyes never closed until my head hit the pillow at 1am. Yep. One-ayy-emm. {Surprised? Me too.}

*On that note, can we have a moment of silence for the fact that I stayed up to watch the clock strike 1{am}? Lets just say this was the first time in a LONG time I've stayed up that late which obviously means there were naps (yes, napS) involved on Sunday afternoon. {NapS on Sunday afternoon, however, are nothing new around here...}

*Moving right along...I actually baked something and, for the first time in Stephanie Howard history... I didn't royally eff it up. (Ok maybe Beau helped.) But I even got all crafty with gel icing and made my cake balls look like mini ghosts withOUT the help of Pinterest and for the first time, I thought of it all on my own...BOOyah. {Cheesy pun intended.}

Moving right along...

*I, for the first time, wore a tutu and loved every second of it. A hot pink one to be exact. {Le duh!} You couldn't have paid me $200 to wear that shaz back in 1990 with a pair of pastel pink ballet slippers however, times have-a-changed, folks and I foresee many-a-tutus in my near future. ;) 

{I was a troll doll for all of you non-nineties children}

*My husband...the clever one he is...was a Red Solo Cup. Original...I know. This is where I note that this was the first time my costume kicked his costume's tush.

*I should also note that thanks to Kristen's incredible ability to make my hair stand up as straight as a board and feel nothing less than that of a helmet, for the first time, I washed my hair 5 times within the matter of 12 hours. Typically I don't even wash my hair five times in the same week...

*Finally, this weekend was the very first time my sister-in-law's brand new photo booth was put to use and it did not disappoint. Y'all...her and her husband made this at home, all on their own, in hopes to start their own biz and let me just say it is too legit. Too legit to quit, actually.

Forealz, y'all. How cool would it be to have one of these in your house?

And just in case you were dying to know how I prefer to pose in a photo booth...

And that, my friends, concludes my "Halloween of firsts". Hope yours was equally full of cake balls,  tutus and so much more! ;)