Halloween

I've been growing a beard ever since Sarah left to go back to Utah to finish her experiments.  Once Brandon got back from visiting us and had actual evidence of my beard, my mom decided to post about the familial facial hair on her blog. Unfortunately, nobody voted on her blog (probably because they couldn't decide), although Brad did complain that he wasn't given enough time to fully participate in the competition (not to mention the trouble he would run into with the Honor Code).  Luckily, Ben posted a link on Facebook, where some voting did occur:

 

I don't want to point out who got the most votes, so I'll draw your attention to the comment from Michael Lundberg.  Now you can see the inspiration for my Halloween costume.  I told Sarah that I would love to trim my beard for her, but it just wouldn't be quite like a lumberjack to have a well kept beard.  Although neither of us wanted to, we decided to let my beard keep growing.  

The night of a friend's Halloween party arrived and we were finally able to show off our costumes:

Lumberjack and his beloved tree.

(We were going to do Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, but we were afraid someone would accuse us of copying them.)

  

 (Our friend Tyler went as a pinata that he made out of party streamers.)

  

 On Halloween day, Sarah dressed up as a researcher who was presenting to her sponsors at a conference in Pittsburgh.  I thought she took it a little far with actually buying a plane ticket to fly all the way out there.

 

I dressed as a lumberjack on that day as well, though people weren't sure if I was in costume or if I just normally wear those clothes (welcome to Oklahoma).

 

Unfortunately, my excitement for trick-or-treaters was for naught as zero came to our apartment that night.

However, I think I know a lumberjack who won't mind a little extra candy.