I know Halloween is sooo three months ago, but I bothered to take the pictures and now I finally have a snippet of time to write it up. We’ll jump right in to carving the pumpkins!
Sean was out of town for business and a family funeral, so the week before Halloween was super long, super crazy and I was all on my own. At that point Elle was going through a “phase” of sleeping no longer than two hours at a time and not going to bed until about 1:00 in the morning (needless to say I was not very good about saying prayers with Djeryd before he left for seminary at 6:10 every morning – he prayed with me every morning, I was just sound asleep through most of them). We had a ton of stuff going on, not to mention last minute costumes and coordinating all the loony-toon stuff that happens around Halloween. That said, we “carved” out some time for pumpkins (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) on the Monday before Halloween.
Items of note include Alyx and Anna making this little kitty pumpkin together; Anna being so proud that she could fit her entire arm inside her personal pumpkin (the girl carved two teeny little holes in her pumpkin after she took all the trouble of gutting the thing – that’s all – there was not even enough of an air flow to keep a candle burning); Alyx covered hers in glue and then glitter and we just had to wash it off after Halloween to cut it up, bake it up and use it for pies (I’d never done that before!); and Djeryd did his finest work ever.
Friday night the kids donned their festive apparel and hit the streets. Well, at least the girls did. We have a rule that trick-or-treating stops at 12 years of age. This was Erik’s last year to trick-or-treat and he opted to stay home with Djeryd to pass out candy. The boys wore camo, ate Snickers, and watched Young Indiana Jones and had the house all to themselves. It was a serious boys’ night.
Sean’s home from the airport at about 6:00pm and we headed out with Alyx and Elle for some fun and Anna spent the evening with her friends (which was really kind of weird for me). This was really the first year Alyx has been excited about Halloween and going trick-or-treating. When we got home that night and she was saying her prayers, she told Heavenly father how much fun she had and that she “would like to do it again sometime soon.” Thank goodness Halloween comes along every single year – only 10 more months to go, Alyx.
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