Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween at our house has become a day of great chaos in our family.  I enjoy the quiet of the day while the kids are in school and then once they come in the door... BAM!  It's on account of us having so much family we need to visit and me never wanting to turn anyone down.  But we are fortunate to have so much family around to be with and I chose this so it's all good, just busy.  It starts out with me taking the kids to Ben's work for trick-or-treating, a tradition that the kids love and look forward to and gets us a lot of good candy.  One of Ben's bosses dressed up as Grover this year and stood around in a hot costume greeting all the kids.  He sounded just like Grover and was so cute to take time with the kids!  My kids (sadly) don't really know who Grover is since they thrive on Disney, but I loved it!  Next we rushed off to Becky's house to visit with Becky.  Halloween is her favorite holiday so she always goes all out and makes all the nieces and nephews HUGE treat bags with stickers and tattoos and scary stuff in it.  The kids love this!  This year she even set out cookies and punch and stuff for them too.  It was really neat!
Becky, Nicholas the storm trooper, Daniel the tiger, Alex the black ninja, Madelynn the duck, and Ben

Then it's off to visit grandmas and friends who live near by while we are in the van.  This year we hit up Dan and Shandi which was fun, they are really great friends and awesome to our kids!  Then home to trick-or-treat around the neighborhood.  Living in Old Lehi, we have yet to adopt the trunk-or-treat, which is both good and bad.  I love the old tradition of going door to door, but trunk-or-treating is so fast, you get to see a lot of people, it's safer, and pregnant mom doesn't have to walk very far.  Then we head to Grandma Larsen's house for chili, mummy dogs, spider web seven layer dip, and lots of good food.  Something healthy for a change on Halloween!!  Anyway, it's a lot of fun and we love spending holidays as a family with our family!

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