A Good Enough Halloween!!

This is how Lincoln literally trick or treated....very subtle, but it got a good laugh

Giving loves to "big sis" Seneca

Our Halloween spread....minus the dinner part but that's not important

The cake I made.... I couldn't find black sugar so I used green

A sick Lincoln on a not-so Happy Halloween

Lincoln's picture at the Halloween display. His best one......he was more interested by the Hay

Setting up for the Ward Halloween Party

The center pieces I spent hours making... not really

It only looks like I took a long time.....that's the trick... or the treat, depending on how you look at it!



So we had some crazy weeks. October 16 our ward did a Halloween Party and I was asked to do the decorations, specifically the center peices. It was kind of last min. so I had 2 days to do them but I was lucky enough to find most halloween stuff 60% off. So I shoved some leaves in a couldron, jazzed it up with ribbon, and spookyness, and ate Halloween candy, you know to get me in mood of course! We did a little photo booth spot where we set up a fall background and had a brother in our ward who is a pro. photographer take picture of the kids in front of it. Their were games and food and a pumpkin carving contest. Even though I had a pounding headache (I mean that with no sarcasim) when I got home after cleaning up, it was good time.

So this past week my parents went on a cruz to the Western Carribean with my mom's siblings, they seem to cruz every year. Jordan and I agreed to watch their house while they were gone, but 2 days into it, Lincoln got pretty sick with a nasty cold that developed into a croup (SP?) so I camed back home with him. By Halloween he was little better, I made pumpkin pancakes that morning for breakfast, a receipt I found in the paper. They were bland so I'll have to modify them to make them better. That night our friend Jesenia and her daughter Seneca came over because both our husbands were working. We had a dinner of Squash bisque, candy apple salad, and an attempt at pigs in a blanket useing cornbread mix and sauges but my cheap $5 little sandwich maker burnt them all! A Cat Cake (I got the stencil from Country living )for dessert. The kids could barely contain themselves with excitement! Well, Seneca couldn't, Lincoln I'm sure didn't know what going on but he had to do whatever Senecas was doing. For example, when trick or treaters came to our door she would run screaming behind me and so he did too. We opened our door to a lot of wided eyed startled trick or treaters! Seneca would comment on the costums and Lincoln would just stand and wave bye bye. It must have been cute because we had some reverse trick or treaters giving candy to them instead, what suckers! So finally we decided to take the kids out just for a little bit. I bundled Lincoln up in the stroller but at a few houses I let him walk to the door. He liked to put his bag in his mouth, they say a picture speaks a thousands words so look at the one at the top and tell me my child doesn't know how to milk it. I wish I would have taken a picture on Seneca in her costum, it was very pretty princess. Lincoln was baby in hoody, good enough.
Well that was our Halloween adventures. I guess I left out the sad part of me carving pumpkins alone on thrusday because Lincoln was napping and too sick to get together with my sisters (in law) to do it. But I had all those pumpkins in my front yard so I couldn't let them go to waste! I ended just carving polka dots in them, but I baked the seeds so something good came from it.

On to November!!