Halloween

Well Halloween has come and gone. It feels like the last few days of October were a flurry of activity and before I knew it Saturday morning had come and we had not carved our pumpkins, I had not made my costume and we definitely had not made sugar cookies cut out in the shapes of goblins and pumpkins.

On Friday I took a meal to a family in our ward who most likely have H1N1. They've been sick for two weeks, with all the symptoms. And the husband is gone on a two week business trip. Ugh, talk about a nightmare. I quickly passed the meal over and then backed away from flu-ville. Well not quite true, I chatted with Mom from the bottom of her front steps. With all the hype that's out there I had changed my mind mid last week, (hmmm, that's never happened before has it), and decided to get the kids and myself vaccinated. So I cancelled the dentist appointments on Thursday and drove over the seniors home in the next town to go to the flu shot clinic. Well the line up OUTSIDE the building was probably 1.5 to 2 hours long. I WAS NOT going to hang around outside with my baby and two preschoolers in order to get a shot to maybe prevent the flu. So back home we went. Now they have suspended all the clinics as they are getting low on vaccine and are trying to come up with new strategies to ensure those at highest risk actually get the vaccines. Craziness I tell you.

The church Halloween party was lots of fun. The kids had made dirt cups (pudding, oreo crumbs and gummy worms), wrapped people up like mummys with toilet paper, and made these hands out of latex gloves -candy corn for fingernails and popcorn to fill the rest of the glove. I don't know why they disturbed me so much but I thought they were very creepy.

All of the costumes are fairly self-explanatory, except maybe mine. Darrel was a mexican ukelele player. He cut out the back of the ukelele and added an mp3 player and a speaker and had some spanish guitar music playing, it was pretty sweet. Eric was a very adorable spider. Jack excelled at his "argh"s and "Yo ho ho and a bottle of pop". (Darrel taught him this kid/church friendly version!) I was a mermaid. I think this would have translated better with the bikini top and a shell necklace, but you do what you got to do right? Or in this case do not do what would cause you extreme embarrassment. Julie was soooo cute in that pumpkin costume, but after two hours kind of lost her patience with those leaf things getting in her face.

Once home the kids went trick or treating with Darrel while I was on door duty. They each managed to fill an ice cream pail in about 2.5 blocks. Darrel brought them home after that, they were pretty tuckered out. It was funny, as I looked out the window I knew it was them coming home by the sillohoute (sp?) of Darrel's sombrero. My three cute men.