Halloween seem to come and go very quickly around here. The weather was warm, and cute costumes were out in full force. On Friday, Scott and I celebrated by going out to a Halloween party in downtown Phoenix with our friends Courtney and Sanford. Scott and I decided to be lumberjacks for Halloween and found items to wear for our “costumes” in our closets.

While waiting for Courtney and Sanford, Scott and I walked to the Phoenix Public Market to pick up some mini pumpkins for our pumpkin carving party later that night, and also to snap a few photos in front of the Westward Ho. The Westward was once a popular hotel, and was even shown in the opening scenes of the cult classic Psycho.

After making our way down to Heritage Square, a historic area in downtown, we spotted numerous people dressed in their zombie best and I felt a million chills creeping through my spine. After realizing that we got to the festival at the tail end of the zombie walk I felt a little better (zombies really creep me out).

The highlight of the festival was a candlelight tour through the Rosson Mansion, but with a long, slowly moving line, we decided to just opt for photos in front of the outside instead.

A bit blurry, but Courtney was a darling Betty Boop, and Sanford was Bret Michaels. During our time at the festival Sanford was called Bret numerous times, and Courtney was asked to take a photo with a few people. I loved their costumes!

Did I mention that our local ghostbusters were at the festival? Car and all! I heard they were the ones that guided the zombie walk.

After walking through the square for a bit, Scott and I headed to my friend (and editor) Jessica’s apartment for a little pumpkin carving time.

Scott and I had big pumpkins at home, but forget to grab them before we left for the festival, so thats were the PHX public market came into play. I really loved the mini pumpkins we ended up getting, and the fact that they were super easy to carve.

A key, and a mustache man!

Here is Jessica and I. She was still in the middle of carving her pumpkin, and decided to take a photo with a piece of pumpkin that she had carved out.

On a side note, Scott also had made me a mustache to wear with my costume, but I pretty much forgot to wear it the whole night.

Here is Scott wearing it at Jessica’s house:

And here’s me wearing it earlier in the day:

On Sunday Scott and I spent time at Courtney and Sanford’s apartment where we watched both Adam’s Family movies, ate yummy pasta and candy, and passed out candy to trick or treaters.

Halloween was a lot of fun, and I’m a little sad that it’s already over. There’s always next year though!

What did you do for Halloween? Did you dress up? If so, what were you?

-Chelsea