Halloween

Halloween this year was a week long event.  Starting on Monday night Connor and Caleb spent 3 days getting ready for a haunted house that their Deacon's Quorum put together for Mutual.  They did it at the Fairgrounds in the livestock building.  It was quite the project.  With chili, hotdogs and hot chocolate the evening was a success.  I did not go because

A.  I am not in Young Men /Young Women  and

B.  I H.A.T.E  hate hate being scared.

So I don't really know exactly how it went only that there was lots of blood, guts and screaming.

We decorated the front yard with scarecrows and witches and 3 lit-up plastic pumpkins plus 6 large pumpkins that we used our Mr. Potato Head pieces to decorate our pumpkins. 

Caleb was a Zombie-Nerd.  I taped boxes of Nerds candy all over his shirt for their dress up day at school.  He said the candy was all gone by the end of 2nd period.

 Connor was an Airhead.  I taped Airhead candies all over his shirt.  They did not last too long either.

Cayden was a vampire/magician.  They always have a costume parade at the elementary.  This was on Thursday, October 28 because we always get Halloween off for Nevada day.   His class also had a party that I helped with.  I decided that I really don't like being in charge of things anymore because I have gotten burned a few times in the past.  I am quite content to "help".   His class decorated candy apples, made a haunted house from foam pieces and played a candy corn relay on top of eating lots of treats. 

Halloween was not actually until Sunday but the kids went trick-or-treating on Saturday.  Caleb dressed up as a Rockstar this time and then went with his friend Logan.  Cayden went with some neighborhood kids and them Caleb took around a bit.   My kids did not want to trick-or-treat much so they only went around around our neighborhood and the neighborhood on the next street.  Don't fret though because I had enough candy to get us through the millennium so they were not going to go without.  Connor was extremely worked up from the whole week of festivities and all the excitement.  Don took him for a long drive to help him calm down.  All the unpredictability and the 5 day weekend was too much for him.  We had Monday and Tuesday off for Teacher Development meetings.   After trick-or-treating we hung out at home and handed out candy.  The kids watched Ghostbusters while gobbling up their goodies.  I made caramel apples earlier in the week but the caramel just sort of slid off the apples.  I wanted to give them to my Visiting Teaching ladies but they did not look very pretty.  They tasted just great to us though.   Cody was rehearsing night and day for his play that was the following week so his Halloween was spent singing and feeding people to plants.  On Sunday we had a few trick-or-treaters but the majority came on Saturday night.