Happy Halloween and Other Updates

Halloween was cold this year! Probably the coldest since we moved to Pocatello. We still had a fun time though.

We followed our tradition of eating mummy dogs for dinner. Rebecca also made some of her delicious pumpkin soup. Then at 5:30 we headed out for trick-or-treating. We just do the few streets in our neighborhood, but I bet is about 50 houses. This is typically the right amount for our children and by the end of it they are excited to get back home and eat their candy. It is fun to take them around to the houses of everyone that they know and it is also fun to see the costumes of all of the other neighborhood kids that are out and about.

This year Julia just did the first 1/4 with us and then she hung out with a friend once we got to her house. Ethan was late because he often doesn't get home from wrestling until about 6pm. We had the carpool driver just drop him off in the area that we were trick-or-treating and then Rebecca drove him to a different neighborhood to find his friends. He said that he had a fun time with them, but he felt like he got much less candy in that area.

This year Julia was Hermione, Ethan was a chic magnet (he got the idea from a friend who was doing the same costume), Christian was Harry Potter, Elliott was some type of police man superhero, Agnes was Snow White, and Asher was a Knight. It was so cold that they all had several layers under the costumes and some even had coats on top.

At a ward party the week before Rebecca and I tried to be Green with Envy (I wore a green shirt and she wore a sign that said envy on it), but no one got it, so we just went as ourselves for Halloween night.

At the end of trick-or-treating we let them eat as much as they could while watching the Charlie Brown Halloween show. This year no one got sick - which I think was a first.

A couple other updates...

Rebecca was one of the first three people to submit a correct answer for the library scavenger hunt that I mentioned in a previous post. She got a $10 gift card for that.

And Ethan had another wrestling match. He did even better this time. He mentioned he was going to try to be on the offense more this time, and we could tell a big difference. He had way more points than his opponent and ended up pinning him in the second round. He was super excited. I forgot to get pictures though.