Trick or Treat!

The week of Halloween was full of fun for us. On Tuesday we went with my mom to her ward's Halloween carnival put on by the young women. The girls had fun throwing bean bags, decorating a bag, doing the cake walk, getting their faces painted, getting balloon animals, rolling in candy, etc.! It was fun to spend the evening with Grandma. Then on Thursday we had our Bears (cub scouts) over for den meeting where we roasted "Mummy Dogs," painted pumpkins, and made the ever-classic ghost suckers. Olivia had so much fun painting pumpkins that day that on Friday we got the paint back out and painted pumpkins some more, and then we decided we should paint each other's faces (brave Mommy)! Olivia did pumpkins on my face and I did a spider web w/spider and a witch on her. It was lots of fun. After raking leaves all day Saturday while Daddy was setting up his shed here in Shelley, we went to the 3rd annual pumpkin walk at the Bingham County park. I thought it was fun and quite impressive for it being only in its third year running. We are thinking we should see about signing up to do a scene for next year. It looks like lots of fun, and the theme will be "Dreams do come true"--any ideas? :) After the pumpkin walk, we headed to town and visited with some of David's family. One of houses we went trick-or-treating to along the way gave Aubrey a Tootsie Pop and she would not let it go--she kept sucking it on it with the wrapper on, and when we asked if it was yummy, she nodded very enthusiastically (that's her new trick--nodding and shaking her head to communicate). Olivia liked practicing her witch laugh, which she has done over the last few weeks, and Aubrey also picked it up, which was really cute. Olivia liked to say to people, "Come here my little pretty!" in a very witchy voice. Altogether it was a great holiday, and our little witch and her black kitty had a blast!