Halloween Festivities

Confession: I don't like Halloween. GASP! I know. So many people go all out and love it and it's their favorite holiday and blah blah blah, but that is not me. Come on, how on earth could it compete with Christmas, Thanksgiving, or so many other better holidays? Sorry. It's just a dumb holiday.

But we tried to be Halloweeny anyway and we had a pretty good time. On Friday, Eli and I went into Jeremy's work where they invite all the families for costume parading and trick-or-treating. (Thank you Becky for the hand-me-down Tiger costume!) This was Eli right before we left. Can you tell he loved his costume?

Haha. It was mostly the hat that he hated (which was too small for his head anyway), so once that was off he was fine. So we walked around and said hi to people and then he got a cool pumpkin balloon from the balloon lady and then stood and stared at her completely mesmerized for awhile until we had to go. :)

Saturday we had a Ward Chili Cook-off and Trunk-or-Treat during the day. Holy cow, there were so many people there! I guess they counted 260 people. Amazing. So that was fun and Jeremy and I had fun being judges of chili and costumes (the bishopric judged the chili and the wives had to judge the costumes - it was hard!) That evening we had pizza for dinner along with bones dipped in blood.

See? I can be festive when I try - especially when it comes to food.

It was raining most of the evening so we hardly had any trick-or-treaters and now we have way too much candy leftover! Oh well. So it's over, and that's fine with me. :) I'm ready to plan Thanksgiving!!! Jeremy's parents (and maybe his sister?) are planning on coming to visit so we're excited to be hosts this year!

(By the way, if you missed my post below, we're having another boy!)