Halloween is over!

We actually enjoyed all of October starting with a visit to the pumpkin patch and bringing home about 30 pumpkins! They lined our walkway until the Monday before Halloween. We carved pumpkins with our friends, the Fenske's. Ryan liked using his power tools to carve his pumpkins!

Halloween day was quite fun for all of the kiddos. I dressed up with the kids and went around town with my wig on. Brayden was the last child to get his costume on for the school parade since I was at the dentist. I made it just in time to color his face and put one scar on his head. He made sure that for the night I had two scars. Tyson was the black spiderman (which I found out that day his name is Venom-I think). Brooklyn was a sparkly Tinkerbell and Colby was Peter Pan. Ryan and I just put on our wig and mullet from years past. I made some cute spiderweb candy bags for each of the kids-somehow they could tell them a part! My mom was fabulous and sewed all of these cute costumes! She finished two on our visit in early October and mailed the others the week before! What a great Mom!

After trick or treating at about five houses we headed out to Grassy Lake. I didn't feed the kids supper and I let them chow their candy on the way to Grandma's house. Surprisingly they all ate a lot of homemade macaroni and cheese there! Two nights later we dumped all the candy together and ate a ton then I put it in the cupboard and no one has asked about it since! I froze the chocolate for Christmas and tossed the nasty marshmallow stuff out!

Needless to say I am very happy to have Halloween decorations off my front porch. We are looking forward to visiting our families in Utah for American Thanksgiving. Another break from Ryan's not to horrible schedule, but a bit busy. He still tries to have Wednesday's off, but emergency scopes keep getting scheduled. I don't mind because then he doesn't say no to new windows and and other fun renovations. We should finish base boards and painting this winter! Yeah! We can almost move in now.