Halloween Update

I now know why my mother didn't like Halloween candy as much as us kids did. What a pain to have all this candy around! But it's so fun for the kids, I guess that's good.


Halloween was fun. First was the Trunk-or-Treat at church. Miciah's costume turned out okay. The whole time I was dying the shirt on the stove I kept thinking about when Charlie's mom in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was doing the laundry. Stirring this big vat of clothes. I randomly would break into short singing bursts of "Cheer up, Charlie. Just be glad you're you." Though I doubt Charlie's mom was tie-dying shirts.

No one at church guessed what she was. But she loved being the Nile. Hardly anyone else at church was even a scripture character at all. Which bummed me out. Rob was Joseph, as you'll see from the picture of him twirling in my dress. I was Moses' mom. Teancom was baby Moses and Elijah was a horse (a cop-out. We already had a horse costume and there are horses mentioned in the BoM). They were all dang cute. I'm sending pictures of all of them (minus me. I just wore a dorky dress I wear regularly).

Some neighbors gave the kids a huge amount of candy. They also gave the kids some toy pumpkins and the kids think the neighbors are awesome. We like our neighborhood. R & C gave the kids industrial-size Butterfingers bars. Holy coy, have we got candy!

For Halloween night Teancom was a pumpkin, and what a cute pumpkin he was. We even got him to smile for the picture, though it took some doing.

Okay, gotta go. Elijah is throwing a fit cause I'm not showing him enough pictures. Life is hard. :) I'll send a better update later, though what's better than pictures?

Tamra