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Halloween Festivities

We started off the Halloween season with our tradition night of Hocus Pocus, pizza and a treat. I normally do orange soda floats but saw the BOO shakes and thought we would try them out. They turned out cute, but I think I prefer the floats. They were vanilla ice cream shakes with lots of cool whip on the top.



The following week we carved out our pumpkins! The kids are getting better and better with carving each year. Soon they won't need our help at all! Which is kinda bitter sweet. I didn't get a picture of them completed but Audrey did an owl, Brandon a ghost and Melanie a cat.



                                 


 The Trunk of Treat was the Saturday before Halloween and the young women were in charge. I had downloaded an app to help make invitations for young women things and was asked to make one for the ward trunk or treat. I don't feel like I'm great at making them since I'm still kinda new to the app, but I think they turned out okay!

Audrey invited her friend Natalia to come with us. Audrey was a pineapple this year for Halloween and loved that she got a cute dress to wear after Halloween was over.

Brandon was Steve from Minecraft. The masks were like $40 to buy online and thought there is no way I'm gonna spend $40 on a box! So we grabbed a free box at Sam's club and I went to town to re create it myself. After MANY hours of meticulous painting I realized that $40 may have been worth it! But it turned out okay, and he loved it and so did many other people.

Melanie was Audrey from Descendants. All of the scepters were sold out or also super expensive so I took a cheap broom we had, spray painted it black and used paper, tin foil and spay paint to make the jewel and ta da! It's not perfect but it worked! 
Pete and I love Halloween but never dress up! This year we were determined to do something. I just wore black and had a spider headband. He was supposed to be chicken cordon blue. He had a chicken with a cord on his neck on a blue shirt... but NOBODY got it and he felt embarrassed by it. We also always say we are going to actually decorate our trunk and that still didn't happen this year but hopefully next!


On Halloween I decided we are going to make it a tradition to make my Grandma D's danish dumpling soup. It was passed down to her and a loved recipe in our family. The dumplings were an acquired taste for me, something that I didn't like as a kid but really like them now. My kids and Elliott love it and I love that we have a new tradition. We are accustomed to going over to my parents house every Halloween and eating dinner together with my whole family. My mom would prepare a big stew in a pumpkin, but my kids and Pete don't really like that so this will be our new thing.



Final looks, for the final Halloween event! TRICK OR TREATING!
 The pineapple topper had fallen off the headband, and the headband had magically disappeared. I wasn't made aware of this until about 20 min before it was time to go, so we had to get real creative and make a bandanna work.

 We had been using a pink tinted conditioner for Melanie's hair for about a week before Halloween. It didn't get quite as vibrant as we were hoping but I didn't want to deal with the sticky spray in paint that just lasts a night. This was a lot of fun and she loved having her hair pink for a couple weeks.
 We spent about 45 min trick or treating and had a great time! It was a rainy chilly night but when we went out it had cleared up enough that it wasn't raining on us.







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