Happy Halloween

Here in Edwardsville it's been a long-standing tradition to do a Halloween parade on Halloween. It's so big, in fact that everybody goes trick-or-treating the night before here, so they can all attend the parade. So on Friday, the 30th, we got the kids dressed up, until I realized Bryn would be staying here with me to give candy out to the trick-or-treaters, so I took her constume back off. Tyler didn't want to wear his mask, which was fine. Kenny took him and they went with our next-door neighbors, the Richies. Unfortunately I didn't realize our porch light was burned out until it was too late--how lame is that?! So I opened our front door (we have a screen door in front of it) and turned on all the lights, in hopes that people would get the message. We did get a few groups, but not nearly as many kids as I'd hoped for. So unfortunately we are left with far too much candy. Tyler sure did have a great time though. He thinks this whole halloween thing is pretty awesome.



I'm not sure what's going on with that glow stick in his mouth...
On the 31st, I decided to start a new tradition of making our meal in a pumpkin. I had never even heard of that until this year so from now on that's what we're doing. It was fun. this year we just did sloppy-jo's cuz we didn't have time for anything else, but it was yummy and fun. Afterwards we went to the parade again, with our neighbors, the Richies. They've got 3 little kids 5, 3, and 1. Ty loves playing with them. It was super cold, and we ended up leaving a little early because the kids were tired and freezing and their buckets were once again full of candy.

We also enjoyed stake conference this weekend. There were some good talks, and some interesting ones. But let's be honest, the most memorable part was in the opening prayer when the man prayed for, "...our prophet, Charles Monson."

How embarrassing for him! We sure had a good laugh over it.