Since we were a little limited with D's knee (read last post if you are clueless) we didn't get to everything but rolled with it and still got some good Halloween-ing going.
Decorations
Someday when we have a big home we'll go all out, but until then we just did a little here and there. I was pretty happy with what we had actually. And the fun new addition this year was my grandma's ceramic halloween house set. I like that it's hers and also just how awesome it is.
Date Night Halloween Themed
Instead of a true party (because of D's knee, time and cost) we went with a more intimate group. We invited my old roomies and their spouses over. Megan & Jon brought Eliott and he slept in our back room, so cute. And then Court and Caleb came over too. They just moved here for 1 year and live a block away (yet in another church stake of course) so I'm feeling WAY spoiled to have a few good friends nearby. As we chatted I noticed that each of us may be in different states next year, so we better do this a few more times.
I don't have pictures for this one. Boo. As they were leaving I realized. Funny how sometimes the BEST occations aren't memorialized because we're too busy having too much fun. But it was one of those times, even a week after I would stumble upon it in my thoughts and just think how fun it was. I'm sure back when we were roomies we could have imagined hanging out later in life with spouses (and some of us kids) but that was such a dream, not real.
Anyway, we planned dinner: Chili w/pumpkin shaped cheese to top, Salad, Rolls, Scary Cake Balls (which I guess I did take a picture of later when I took some to work), and also Apple Cider later that Jon made with a Cocoa Motion. A very cool kitchen gadget, I'd recommend it. We chatted for a long time afterwards and then decided to watch Hocus Pocus instead of other game options. I guess it's hard to write how FUN it was, you had to be there I guess. But our invite list was small - again, when we have a big home and such, we'll go ALL OUT. Although I think a smaller group was more fun for me this time. Thanks Megan & Court for coming (not like you gals read this thing)...
My Work
We did our normal - invite the families and go trick or treating around the office - celebration. David came, yay, finally a friend at work! My team (HR & Legal) dressed up as a group; we were the Addams Family. I was Morticia, yup. We also decorated our HR conference room for the little kiddos to get treats from. Sadly, our room was a little too scary, especially when Cousin It was visiting (it was my boss under all that hair!!) I think we did pretty good didn't we???
School Carnival
David's mom works at an elementary school and every year we go help with the carnival activities, hand out candy, and clean up. It was on the Friday before Halloween - we spent several hours there but had fun with the Clark kids. Since it was the same day as my work party, I got pretty exhausted and we finally headed home with some candy that was left over, yay for David!
Pumpkins
We carved pumpkins two days before Halloween-ween :) (Call it an FHE of sorts) Of course, I'm not as original so I did the classic pumpkin, and David did one that is totally him.
Oh, and we went to a pumpkin patch to get all the Clark pumpkins with the kids. Here are a few pictures.
The Night
The night of Halloween we went to the in-laws place, and went trick-or-treating with the kids. Well, until David's knee wore out so we just waited for them to come home. They are getting older - in years past they loved having us come with them - but they had a couple friends with them this year and they were getting "embarrassed" - wow, I've hit that point/age!?!?! David's mom also does chili, hot dogs, and lots of jello wigglers along with other Halloween dishes, so we were well fed. Again, no pictures, but we had orange on at least so that was a little festive I guess.
Oh, did anyone see "The Neighbors" tv show for Halloween? The Aliens called it Halloween-ween, and it has stuck with me.
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