This year went a little differently. Zander went out with friends by himself, Lucas invited his best friend to come trick-or-treat with him, so Stephen went with those two boys, and I got to take Grayson and Hannah. And boy did we had a great time! Grayson had been waiting a long time to go trick-or-treating. He is the funniest thing to watch when he gets excited about something. Plus, he was the cutest cowboy in the West if I don't say so myself.
Every single house we went to, Grayson would get his candy, turn right around and hold up the candy he got and yell, "Mommmm! Looooook, I got this treat!" At one house there were a few grown ups sitting out around a fire pit in the driveway and Grayson, out of the blue unholstered his gun and shot one of the neighbors, and proceeded to laugh manically as he held his gun in the air and held his belly as he laughed which sent everyone up and down the street in a fit of laughter. The neighbor then asked why he was the one he chose to shoot and no one else. All Grayson did was laugh even more. The neighbor kept trying to get an answer out of him and then Hannah simply said, "Because you're old!" and turned and walked away. That got everyone laughing again except the neighbor both my kids insulted. I slowly started turn and walk away and told told everyone, as I pointed, they were not my kids and took off. Everyone laughed again even the guy who got shot, and that was the end of that. We just had so much fun. I hope my kids continue to trick-or-trick for a long time. We
We have a Sith lord, an unknown phantom, Lucas's friend, Aaron, is a Pokemon, a witch, and a cowboy
Another witches night out came and went this year. We attended a new one this right here in town. In years past we drove all the way up to Logan which was really fun, but last year there was a snow storm and traveling through Sardine Canyon in a snow storm in the dark was NOT fun, so we were grateful to have it closer this year. I always like to dress as some sort of obscure witch or villain just to have more fun and liven things up a bit.
I actually didn't feel like dressing up this year until Stephen had the idea to dress up as the "witch" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I hadn't seen that movie for ages, but it was perfect! Not much effort in dressing up, but still fun and different. All I had to do was paint a funnel for my hat and make a carrot nose out of paper mache. I found all my clothes at the DI in five minutes luckily. Stephen smeared dirt on my face and I was good to go! Most of my friends loved my costume just because they all knew I'd be dressed differently, but only one person even got the reference to the movie or had even seen the movie which was kind of a bummer, but all well. Every one else was dressed in the same old black outfits and witches hat. There were some really cool hats though!
We ate dinner and chatted and then hit the dance floor for the rest of the night. There were tons of cool prizes from the raffle every half hour. There were free family portrait sessions, minky couture blankets, bath and spa packages, women's retreats, date night packages, jewelry, etc... and I ended up winning the only prize I did not want, but everyone else did. I won some free botox and an extra large Stanley mug! I just had to laugh and run up to the front to claim it like an idiot because I stuck out like a sore thumb and everyone knew who I was, so I felt like I had to make everyone laugh. And it worked. All in all it was a fun night out with friends.
We decided to have a staycation in Lehi this year during the kids’ fall break. We kicked it off with a trip to Cornbelly’s where we got to have fun in the corn maze, corn pit, haunted houses, and other fun activity centers.
Yesterday on our way to the store I was waiting at a stoplight. All of a sudden Grayson yelled out, "Ohhhh, look mom, there's a sandwich!" And he pointed out the window. He was so excited about this sandwich and started laughing about it. I couldn't see a sandwich anywhere so I kept asking him "Where?" And the more I asked the angrier he got and the more frustrated I became because I just could not see what he was talking about. I looked at all the stores and cars to see if there was a picture of a sandwich on them, and there wasn't. Finally, after some time I looked up in the direction he was pointing (for the umpteenth time) which was hard because he sitting directly behind me, and saw this:
