Halloween 2012

Another Halloween has come and gone. All the festivities of the week were fun. Our computer is having issues... so I'll have to edit the red eyes later. We enjoyed a soup dinner and donuts at our ward party. The boys dressed up as minions from the movie Despicable Me. I had seen the idea on pinterest, so I can't take credit. It was fun to see lots of great costumes, though Justin and I didn't dress up. One of these days we will... or maybe not. We sat with the Nelsons. That's our wonderful Bishop Gibbons in the background.

For family home evening we went out to eat at SoDa row in Daybreak and then headed to a corn maze. Nolan had been begging to do a corn maze so we squeezed it in just before they close for the season. Nolan loved it and was a good leader. Ezra didn't love it, but he remained a good boy as long as he was holding and loving an ear of dried corn that he found. The weather was so nice and the moon coming up over the mountains was gorgeous!

On Tuesday, I helped out at Nolan's kindergarten Halloween party. We played bingo, decorated oranges like pumpkins, searched through cooked macaroni for spider rings (all was placed in a big hollowed-out pumpkin), and wrapped each other as mummies. Nolan said it was the best party he's ever had.

Tuesday evening was Ezra's preschool program. He insisted on being a skeleton, rather than a minion. But he's cute either way, so I didn't care. He had been saying that he didn't want to sit in his seat and sing the songs, so I was worried. But he started out great. As the kids were introduced, Ez walked in and did a giant jumping turn to show his costume. He had some great energy going. Song #1 went okay, and then he really got into song #2... Witch's Brew. I took a little video that I'll try to post later. But as that song was winding down, he plopped in his seat and said, "I'm done." He tunneled his way under the other chairs and then came to sit with me for the remaining songs. We couldn't get him to go back up. But he did so good for that one song, so it was okay. Good job, little skeleton!

 Trick-or-treating was fun because Grandma K. came for dinner and then went down our street with us. The first 4 houses we went to didn't answer the door so Ezra yelled, "This is stupid!" But once we got to the houses with candy, he was thrilled. He was out for about 45 minutes before he said, "I think I'm sleepy." Dad came to get him and then Nolan and I stayed out for another 45 minutes. Nolan's our walker/hiker so he doesn't get tired easily. But it was too long. We did NOT need that much candy... even if it was fun! They had a wonderful time sorting through it at home and didn't get to bed until nearly 10 o'clock. I guess that's the fun of Halloween... staying up late all hopped up on sugar. Doesn't it seem right that Halloween always be on the last Friday of October? That would be nice if they didn't have school the next day. 

 When we got home I gave Nolan a "war head" candy, telling him they're yummy. He wasn't happy that it was totally disgusting and didn't appreciate my trick. Then Ezra licked one but he was too smart to put it all the way in his mouth.