Almost Halloween

This week feels like it's been a lot of gearing up towards Halloween.

On Wednesday, Dan went to hear a friend of ours lecture about zombies.

Thursday, Evelyn dressed up in her kitty-ballerina costume for her dance class. (She did all her own posing--she's quite the little model.)


On Friday, we were supposed to go to a Halloween party at Evelyn's dance class, or, barring that, to a Halloween carnival, but we opted instead to stay home (much less crowded) and make some bones. Ours didn't turn out nearly as pretty as the picture, but they are all gone now.

Saturday morning, while Dan helped the Elder's Quorum move a family in down the street, I took the kids to meet Bubby and Poppy while we took in the Livestock and Heritage Festival Parade. My mom would have loved it (maybe next year?)--lots of farmers riding horses and vintage tractors. The highlight of the parade was the sheep run--they actually run several hundred sheep down Main Street. And then the street sweeper comes.

In the evening, we went to a friend's house for their annual Halloween party. We were in charge of dessert, so we brought pumpkin cupcakes with the white chocolate bones on top of them, and some swamp juice. I'm not always very good about doing fun food things for holidays, so I was pretty proud of myself. The cupcakes were a big hit, and the swamp juice was mostly gone when we left (although the sour worms did add an odd flavor to the already sour lemonade). The grownups got to chat, the kids played, and everyone had a good time. (Especially our host, who threw several cups of gasoline on the fire to get it to go--and then the fire went "whoosh" when the match hit it).

We endured some snow midweek, but the last couple of days have been beautiful fall weather again. We *finally* got some gutters put up on our house. It was surprisingly inexpensive and easy--if we'd known that, we would have done it long ago.

Our final picture is of a tent we scored off the Woot a few weeks ago. Dan had the bright idea to set it up in our living room. You can see how well it fit. :)