I'm going to eat your eyeballs...

I can finally mark a haunted house off my list of things Ben and I haven't done! I haven't been to a haunted house since I was like 8 years old...I remember my dad was dating a woman named Jane at the time and she wanted to take us to one inside Lincoln Square Mall (ya, that's how long ago that was...when things actually happened inside that building!). I remember being somewhat scared, but nothing that I couldn't recover from since I had a full bag of candy. #fat90skidprobs

Before we went to the haunted house, we worked on the house (sounds like a trend lately).  We also put in some work on my truck since I somehow broke my sway bar links on both sides earlier in the week!  I was coming home from the vet in Rantoul, because we thought Vader did something to his paw. Luckily, nothing was wrong with his paw, and the vet didn't even charge me for the appointment, which was SUPER NICE!  

I was turning by my work so my coworkers could meet Vader and I heard an awful noise.  I thought my tires just blew out, but I got out to check and they seemed fine. They got to meet Vader, and then I called Ben to explain what was happening.  He told me to take the country home...so I tried to hit the straightest path home.

Ben was able to see that my sway bar links had busted, and it was rubbing into my tires!  I could have blown out both tires if I didn't stay straight!  The worst part was that we couldn't get my tires off to really dig in and see what was wrong, because someone stripped my lug nut lock the last time I got tires (*waves middle finger in the air towards Farm n' Fleet in Urbana*).  

We ended up dumping over a grand into Silver Fox, and Ben did all of the work himself!  I can't tell you how AMAZING it is to see him work on things.  I asked him if he's ever replaced sway bar links before, and he hadn't.  Maybe some people would be nervous about him tinkering with the front end, but I am always flabbergasted (been waiting to use that word lol) when I watch him figure things out on his own!  He is truly an AMAZING, AMAZING man!

Saturday morning, we grabbed some breakfast at The Pub (I need to stop telling you guys this, because I don't want anyone else to find this gold mine! Mmm, that gravy on those hashbrowns, though!).  

We spent some time working on the front porch again, and she's done!  We replaced/painted some boards along the foundation of the house, added end caps to the front porch, installed some solar lights on the bottom posts and around our landscaping, and we finally got rid of our watering can that displayed our house numbers!  We bought new numbers and put them on the top step!  

Ooo, we fancy!

I spent most of the time SUPERVISING, but I do keep Ben company when he's working and I think he prefers that!  I mean, I do help out, but I'm an overthinker, and that makes me a slow, indecisive worker.  

Here's a video of my SnapChat of me supervising him LIKE A BOSS:

I think he enjoys all the compliments that I give him while he's working! Hah!

MOTHER OF FUCK!   

As soon as they "let us in" (which we thought we were going straight into the haunted house), we wished we had bought the Fast Pass.  The line was LOOOOONG! They led you into a room where the lines actually begin.  I think our official wait time was 1 hour and 50 minutes!

I actually started to get really nervous when we were next in line to go inside the haunted house.  It was 10,000 sq ft of scary, and was supposed to last approximately 20 minutes!  I didn't realize that haunted houses were dark and pitch black.  The 10 year old me remembers rooms being lit up with emergency EXIT signs LOL...I also had to pee, and wasn't sure if I was going to throw up or not LOL...So, Ben led us through the entire thing!  I never let go of his hand, because duh...I was a little scared.  And Krista was hanging on to me too, so I was protected all around! #tryandgetme

Eventually, you get kinda comfortable inside the haunted house.  You know when someone is going to be in a room when it's too quiet.  One guy jumped out and screamed,"I'm going to eat your eyeballs!" and I replied, "You don't want my eyeballs!" in a "You're So Silly" tone.  To my surprise, he replied and said, "Yes I doooo!  They taste like CANDY!" I laughed and said, "No, they aren't 20/20."  LOL...

Another freaky girl in a nurse outfit popped out at us and said, "Wanna play a game?" I said, "Yeah!  Hide n' Seek...you go hide and I'll never seek!"  She returned with, "How about I kill and hide your body?" Super props to the actors in this haunted house for playing along and doing improv!  I was impressed!

It was definitely fun, but Ben is convinced we got sick standing around all of the "Rantoulians" as he calls them.  I don't think the Bohlen brothers would have waited in line that long if it wasn't for me and Krista! 

That's love!