Halloween Parties

After the pumpkin patch on Saturday we picked up Jordan from school and rushed home to get the kids ready for the parties that night.  We only had about 15 min to get them dressed, and somehow I fit in 5 min to make Calin a trick-or-treat bag (which I love!  I can't believe I didn't take a picture of it.  I'll make sure to take one on Halloween).

So here are the costumes.  I'm so glad they were both so easy.

Our ward party was awesome!!  They had tons of games that the Yong Women and Young Men were in charge of.  They had a chili cookoff and a BBQ going.  And fun Halloween music playing of course.  We all had a great time. 

Definitely Capri's favorite game

We stayed for an hour then headed down the street to a Halloween party with some friends.

Their party was SO cute!! I wish I brought my camera in.  Michelle made some soup, and lots of cupcakes for the kids to decorate.  She had all kinds of treats for the kids to put on top with cute names for them all (like "frog lips" for those mini sour watermelons and ogre eyes for peach rings)  It was darling!!  I was hoping she would post a picture on fb or her blog that I could steal, but none yet.  Maybe later.

Sadly we only stayed about 20 min so we could get back to the ward party for the trunk-or-treat.  I wish we could have stayed longer, but Jordan said he wasn't sure he would be able to go trick-or-treating with the kids on Halloween, so we wanted to make sure we got some of that in while we could.  And the trunk-or-treat was awesome!  SO many people participated!  And one family even did cotton candy :)  Even Capri had fun.  She loved putting the candy in her own bucket.  But she didn't like going in order and pretty much just wandered around wherever she wanted.  And she definitely played favorites, heading back to the same trunks over and over.

Sunday Jordan and I spoke in church.  We were actually asked to speak last month, but they forgot and asked someone else.  I thought we were off the hook, oh well.  But have a mentioned how BIG our ward is??  Huge!  The chapel is filled at least 10 min before church starts.  And by the time church starts the overflow is already almost full.  And eventually it fills up.  All the way to the very back. Anyway, standing in front of that many people felt like Stake Conference or something, scary!  But I love our ward here.  Everyone is so sweet and friendly.  Almost everyone we passed that day at church talked to us about our talk.  It was so nice.  Even our sweet babysitter sent a text that afternoon letting us know we did a great job on our talks.  I don't say any of this to make it sounds like we gave some Amazing talks or anything, because that wasn't the case.  But our ward is just so kind and thoughtful I love it!  

So that was our weekend. Summed up in two posts.  Yesterday I tried taking pictures of the kids in their costumes and it was a nightmare!  Capri was screaming, Calin peed his pants (his Jake pants) and peed on the floor (I think he was just trying to make me mad because he never does this), kids wouldn't stop fighting and throwing the pumpkins, it was terrible.  After 45 min of setting up the backdrop and getting the kids ready I called it quits before snapping a single picture.  I tried again this morning while Jordan was here, and thank goodness they were more cooperative this time!  I'll post those tomorrow for Halloween :)