Halloween 2012

After seeing The Dark Knight Rises, I started to tell Casey that he would make the perfect Bane.  In fact, I thought he would make a terrifying Bane...I was correct. We heard some people say things like "that guy is sooo scary" and then scurry away for safety.

After ordering the mask online, we set to work making the rest of his costume.  We found belts and all sorts of things at the thrift shop and then set to work making an awesome costume.  To go along with this...since I have always wanted have a "couples" Halloween costume, I decided to dress as Talia al Ghul, daugher of Raz al Ghul.  For my outfit, I found some amazing lace and fabric and made a great costume, Casey still thinks I got it from the movie set.

Oh...look at the happy couple!!! 



 

 

 Our inspiration...

 

Some of the decorations at the Halloween Dreamscape hosted by our friends at Crown Royal. 

 

 

Love these costumes from Jared and Kelsey and I also loved when Jared took a cookie snack and made this scary face.

 

Andrew Jensen, we always knew he was a crooked!

 

 

This was one of the cleverest costumes I saw, this girl dressed up like she was from Hitchcock's The Birds.  There were so many great costumes!

 

 

 

Here is my creepy contribution to the food.  I was trying to make the cupcakes look like graves where the dead were climbing out. 

 



 



 

Here is our dragon pumpkin 



 

  

 

The Renn Fest 2012

Once again it was that time of the year that Marcia, myself, and a few of our friends went up to Maryland for the Renn Fest and once again it was a great time. Turkey legs and all sorts of food was had and enjoyed by all. The highlight of the day this year was the Danger Committee who we got to meet in person and got them to sign a t-shirt for me and we got their Christmas DVD "A Stocking Full of Awesome" which has become a new Christmas Tradition for us. The DVD is awesome and the shirt is sweet as they signed it for me. On the back it has their oath that they make everyone swear before every performance.

"I do solemnly swear I will not go home and try any of the stupid crap I saw those guys do, even though it would make me super cool."

Which is really good advice as you can see in the video they are juggling tazers.

The rest of the day we wandered around the festival and watched a lot of different shows and performances and laughed and looked at some of the unique artistic items people had for sale. One guy had chocolate sculptures on a stick in different flavors, the chili pepper one was interesting tasty but hot. Marcia thought the hand mold sculptures were interesting. I still liked the blacksmith and think it would be cool to learn how to do that and make something really cool. I can make a sword out of wood and other materials but it would be very cool to make one out of metal.

New this year Rachel Gray came with us on the journey and we met up with Amanda, Blake, Jeff, and Deborah we all wandered around and then sat and watched the joust yelling "HUZZAH!!!" as our knight rode on to victory. We saw Johnny Fox the Sword Swallower again this year and although his main act never changes he is fun to watch as he interacts with the audience very sardonically. The rest of the time we wandered and looked at all of the.......interesting costumes people wore. It is amazing how much time people put into making these costumes and some turn out pretty good while others should never have been attempted.

33rd Celebration of Casey's Trips Around the Sun

   This year Casey's birthday is on a Tuesday and since celebrating on a Tuesday has always been a difficult thing this year the celebration was moved to the Saturday before. Like always Casey had a desire to go out and make the celebration memorable so being the wonderful person that Marcia is she made sure it was amazing. They awoke Saturday morning and with a smile of anticipation on both of their lips they ate a breakfast of pumpkin pancakes and sausages that Marcia prepared. Once full they drove up to Rockville Maryland to take on the Go Ape course.

For those that don't know Go Ape is a Tree Top Adventure course with zip lines, ladders, ropes, Tarzan swings, and all sorts of crazy fun things. Casey was blown away that Marcia took him to such an awesome place. All morning and into the afternoon they climbed up, down, and sideways through the obstacle course. They laughed and screamed out as they flew through the air and hit the ground and the end of the zip lines with a soft thud into a ton of mulch.


Each course had its own unique obstacles that you had to make your way through some were a blast, others were exhausting and only fun when they were over, while others felt really good to lie down in and take a nap. Obviously the best part of the whole excursion was jumping onto the zip lines and gliding through the air yelling like Tarzan. After a few hours of fun and exhaustion the course was over and Casey and Marcia were starving and searched for a place to get food. They found this place called Urban BBQ not to far away.
   Urban BBQ was delicious. They served this soul roll, similar to an egg roll, that was basically pulled pork and cheese wrapped in a deep fried egg roll shell. This concoction came with a dipping sauce that was really chili with a lot of cheese on top. They had some other delicious food there but being so exhausted and full Marcia and Casey headed home. By the time they got home the exhaustion had gotten the better of them and as soon as they got to their room they fell asleep.
   Luckily they woke up in enough time to go to the next part of the birthday celebration, Dangerously Delicious Pies. With a quick stop to pick up a friend the trio were off to H Street in DC and to the 3rd Annual birthday celebration with Pies. They went to the store after a slight detour through DC and found a parking spot pretty close to the store. The trio got out quickly and made a beeline to the shop and looked over the menu for the night. As soon as they ordered the most amazing savory pie, the SMOG, the waitress remembered them from the celebration last year. A good laugh was had by all and the waitress was glad that they came back. The trio sat down and talked while they waited for their pies.

 

Finally with full bellies and smiling faces the party broke up and everyone wished Casey a Happy Birthday and made their ways into the night.

 

 

 


Casey had an extra large grin that night thinking of his good friends and the great day he had; but the biggest reason for his smile was the beautiful woman that was on his arm that whole night. He knew how lucky he was and that made him happy.

The Story of this Blog

This blog will be about the adventures and fun times that Marcia and Casey go on; fun pictures and stories will be added as they go. We hope you enjoy it.