Halloween

I don't know why, but I absolutely love Halloween.  I started thinking of what the kids should dress up as months in advance and looked around and planned.  I made a trick or treating schedule of events which including five different trick or treat things on five different days.  I planned out a party that had to be just like my mom's to keep up the tradition, I (and Matt, but me mostly) went to all the work of carving pumpkins for a 2 and 1 year old, and I finally caved in and bought The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (which I had already mentioned in an earlier post).  It's just so fun to me, and one of my favorite holidays.  So this post will be of our pumpkin carving, which was really fun.  I am really excited to post pictures of the kids in their costumes, they are SO cute, but we still have one more event, our ward Halloween party is tomorrow, and I am excited for it also, and so waiting for those pictures; however, I will write about my party. It was really fun, the Johnsons came over (and the Shaws for a little bit) and we had homemade chili, doughnuts, cupcakes (that Mikelle and I made), pumpkin seeds that I toasted up (from our pumpkins, thats right), and a "really cool Halloween drink" as Mikelle calls it.  I mixed lemonade and 7 up together and put it on some dry ice.  It was really cool and the dry ice made it so cold that it got a little slushy, and was actually a really good drink, and the kids absolutely loved it.  So I am actually really excited that Mikelle is remembering stuff because I want to do all the holiday traditions like I was used to growing up.