Saturday, November 15, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Well we kicked off the Halloween celebrations with a trip to the pumpkin patch and corn maze the first week of October with Tysen and Danette and their kids. The kids went for a ride in the tractor train, visited the petting zoo which was utterly unimpressive to kids that live on the ranch, and then we ate junk from the concessions and the kids ran around like little maniacs with their glow sticks (we went after dark). Shelby picked out a pumpkin from the $5 pile for her and one from the $1 pile for Peyton and by the time we got them back in the car they were both so tired they cried half of the way home and then fell asleep. The next week me, my mom, Danette, Shayla, Mikasa, and Vanessa all did the Race for the Cure 5K. My mom and pregnant Kasa walked and I am so proud to say I actually ran. I won't comment on my time but I did run and did finish and that was pretty good for my post pregnant out of shape self. That week was also the fair and even though it was October it was about 95 degrees and sunny so we went, ate every kind of fair food they had, and then let the kids ride the carousel (Shelby refused to participate because the ticket taker carnie guy tried to help her onto her horse and that ticked her off.) The Sunday before Halloween I made a bunch of sugar cookie dough and we let the kids cut out, bake, and decorate cookies all afternoon at my mom's house (I highly recommend doing all messy activities at Grandma's house and I'm sure she appreciates it!) They were really into cutting them out and then they each frosted about 3 and they were over it which left the adults to finish up the job. Even Sven the every holiday scrooge was required to decorate a couple and in true Sven fashion he turned one pumpkin into a yin and yang sign and another into a wave/ surf company logo. Shelby ate her weight in frosting.
On Monday it was party time again as Shayla and Daylon had to help out with their church ward's trunk or treat party so they wanted me to bring the girls. I was a witch, Shelby was Sugar the Horse of course, and Peyton was the cutest little pumpkin ever even though her hood kept falling down over her eyes. They had a chili cookoff dinner and then they had a bunch of games set up for the kids to play (basically a Sanford Junior Carnival for my fellow former Indians.) Shelby won a prize at the cake walk and got to chose from a whole table covered in cookies and cakes. Well she looked them all over very seriously and then chose the plate full of sugar cookies that Shayla had brought which were the ones we had made the night before and still had about 100 of at the house. Hey they were the cutest. Peyton loved watching all of the kids running around in costumes and was so overstimulated that I she fell asleep about half way through dinner and Grandma held her the rest of the night. The next night we had our ward's trunk or treat. I got them all decked out in their costumes again and this time we even decorated the back of my car with lights and had scary music playing. All of the cars line up all around the parking lot and the kids trick or treat from car to car. Shelby thought it was way more fun to just sit in the back of our car and hand out candy to the other kids. I kept trying to get her to go trick or treat. I'd say "don't you want to go get candy?" and she'd just look at me like I was stupid and say "but I alweady have wots of candy wight here" It was the same thing on Halloween night. She just really can't understand why if we have a whole giant bowl of candy at our house and at Grandma's house she needs to walk around and ask strangers for more. And really I can't come up with any reason either. I figure soon enough I won't be able to get her to want to ever stop trick or treating so I might as well enjoy the years where we do two houses and she says "ok all done let's go back to Ganma's house"
On Monday it was party time again as Shayla and Daylon had to help out with their church ward's trunk or treat party so they wanted me to bring the girls. I was a witch, Shelby was Sugar the Horse of course, and Peyton was the cutest little pumpkin ever even though her hood kept falling down over her eyes. They had a chili cookoff dinner and then they had a bunch of games set up for the kids to play (basically a Sanford Junior Carnival for my fellow former Indians.) Shelby won a prize at the cake walk and got to chose from a whole table covered in cookies and cakes. Well she looked them all over very seriously and then chose the plate full of sugar cookies that Shayla had brought which were the ones we had made the night before and still had about 100 of at the house. Hey they were the cutest. Peyton loved watching all of the kids running around in costumes and was so overstimulated that I she fell asleep about half way through dinner and Grandma held her the rest of the night. The next night we had our ward's trunk or treat. I got them all decked out in their costumes again and this time we even decorated the back of my car with lights and had scary music playing. All of the cars line up all around the parking lot and the kids trick or treat from car to car. Shelby thought it was way more fun to just sit in the back of our car and hand out candy to the other kids. I kept trying to get her to go trick or treat. I'd say "don't you want to go get candy?" and she'd just look at me like I was stupid and say "but I alweady have wots of candy wight here" It was the same thing on Halloween night. She just really can't understand why if we have a whole giant bowl of candy at our house and at Grandma's house she needs to walk around and ask strangers for more. And really I can't come up with any reason either. I figure soon enough I won't be able to get her to want to ever stop trick or treating so I might as well enjoy the years where we do two houses and she says "ok all done let's go back to Ganma's house"
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