Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween/Nevada Day this year! This is not one of my most favorite "holidays", but I try to make it fun for my kids. I think we had so much fun this year because Wade was actually home with us for the first time since he started working for Metro 4 1/2 years ago!

The festivities began with the ward Trunk-or-Treat on Wednesday evening. (Wade did not get to attend this with us and I was ready to go back home before I even left the house-the kids were being kind of rotten) and I didn't really want to put up with all of them by myself. But I gave it a shot and it turned out to be a fun night. The kids were pretty excited to get candy and I had fun visiting with friends and seeing all of the cute costumes go by. When we got in the car to go home Jakob got a piece of candy out of his bag and began to open it when I hear Mason yell at him to stop eating his candy because Mommy hasn't checked to make sure it's safe to eat. (He had been learning about Halloween Safety in preschool and he was obviously listening to every word they told him!)

Then on Thursday Mason had a Halloween party at preschool and was excited to see all his friends in their costumes. Jakob didn't have a "party", but they did do a costume parade, which we were able to go watch and I made some sugar cookies to take to his class during lunch. As Jakob and I were handing out the cookies one of the little girls in his class raised her hand and said, "Are you his mom?" I said, "Yes I am!" She then said (so sweetly and innocently), "You are soooo pretty!" My heart just melted! Aren't little girls so sweet?

On Friday (Halloween/Nevada Day) the boys began the day with a playdate and then Mason got to go to a Star Wars birthday party! He was extremely excited. Wade and I were able to go and vote and then we came home to carve pumpkins. Wade was so sweet to gut out all 5 pumpkins by himself while I hurried to shower and get ready for the day. Then he and I carved them (the boys really could have cared less, we were outside and so were their friends-what's more fun?). After pumpkin-carving, I made some chili and cornbread and then we took the kids around the neighborhood. We made it to the top of our street when the complaining began, "My legs are tired, my bag is heavy. Can we go home now?" We told them we are just going to walk around the block and head home. When we got home they could not wait for trick-or-treaters to come to our house so they could hand out candy. Mason was out in our front yard yelling at people to come to his house to get some candy! He also felt it necessary to tell some of the kids (and even a mom) that you should say thank you when someone gives you candy! He is such a hilarious kid and has no problem correcting you when he thinks your wrong! Wade let Hannah have her first succor and boy did she love it-she was sticky from head to toe! (It was quite a fight trying to take it away from her.) We had a fun time being together as a family this weekend and look forward to all the upcoming holidays to create more fun memories and traditions!