Halloween 2010

Minnie Mouse, a Beautiful Ballerina, and Superman made their way to our house this year. We had a great Halloween. We bought the first pumpkin we saw so as not to repeat the no pumpkin Halloween we had last year. Thirteen dollars later we had a pumpkin. Kyleigh designed the pumpkin face. We modeled it after Ridge, who has one tooth sticking up from the bottom of his mouth. It keeps getting bigger and bigger, but no other teeth have come in yet. We made roasted pumpkin seeds for the first time ever. They were really delicious until we left them ont he counter overnight and they got soggy.

We went to our ward trunk or treat/chili cookoff/carnival. I tried my hand at chili for the first time ever. I didn't win any awards, but my chili was one of the first to go. We also made two varieties of cupcakes. One with skeletons and the other was a grim skull face. You can't really see the slivered almond teeth in the picture but they are there. The kids had a great time.

We also went to the Layton Halloween lunch. The preschool kids did a little Halloween program they had been working on, went trick or treating around to each office, and had pizza for lunch. On Halloween night we did a little trick or treating with the Giles family and had dinner in a pumpkin that night at Mike and Holly's with a few other friends. The kids got an unbelievable amount of candy. I let them eat all they wanted for two days then sealed the rest and froze it. We still had 6 good sized bags of candy to freeze. We had our big candy sort for the year. It has grown since we moved here and it was just Kyleigh and Holly sorting away. More kids and more candy. We will probably have candy till next year!

One night we told Katelyn she couldn't have any more candy because she had already brushed her teeth. She disappeared for a few minutes then came back and asked for some scissors for a craft project. She specifically said "for a craft project". I told her we were going to bed in a minute and she could save her craft for the morning. She disappeared again and I didn't think much of it. We then went upstairs for bed and found Katelyn on her bed with a pair of big scissors she had found. Candy and wrappers were scattered all over her bed. We took away her candy and scissors and disciplined her. She dived under her covers like she was hurt that we weren't happy with her. Then we hear wrappers rustling under the covers. I pulled them back and found her with her mouth stuffed full of more candy. Rusty and I both had to turn our heads because we were laughing. I got blamed, of course. In this case she is my daughter and I know that. However, my mom reminded me that I came by it honestly. It's genetics. Thanks Grandpa Al.

Happy Halloween!