Krazy Kooks!

Ok, I vow here and now to have a calm and maybe even boring Halloween next year. This year was absolutely crazy - fun, but crazy! We spent most of the day in Bountiful at my parents' house. We drove in the night before - and we didn't have time before we left to even carve a single pumpkin. I got up early and worked for a few hour while Pete took Logan to another dentist appointment (am I just cruel to schedule cavity fillings on Halloween???). The boys didn't have school for Nevada Day (only Nevada would have their statehood granted on Halloween). We then got the kids in their costumes for a family party - this was the fun part of the day. I love it when we get all my nieces and nephews as well as my cousins and their kids together - it is total chaos but always a lot of fun. The kids tolerated having pictures taken, then enjoyed jack-o-lantern pizzas, pumpkin sugar cookies, pumpkin bowling, and just running around in the backyard, then had a mini trick-or-treating session amongst the adults there.

I then packed everything up and waited for Pete to return from running some errands, and waited and waited... The biggest frustration is he didn't have his cell phone with him so I couldn't call to find out when he would be back or to hurry him along. We had originally planned on leaving by 2:30 pm so that Pete could attend a friend's wedding back in Wendover at 5:00 pm (why anyone would choose to get married on Halloween is beyond me). Well we didn't leave until almost 5:00 pm - and then got 15 minutes out and realized we forgot something important and went back (in rush hour traffic no less). By the time we got back to Wendover it was almost 7:30 pm. I quickly got the kids back in their costumes while Pete wrapped the wedding present. I took the kids out trick-or-treating while Pete went to the wedding. After only a half dozen houses Logan started crying that he wasn't feeling good so we went home. Trevor went out with some friends to do a little more, while Logan helped me hand out candy, though we missed the big rush. I got Kylie & Logan to bed and crashed completely exhausted from the crazy day. So we had fun at the family party, but hardly did any trick-or-treating, never carved a pumpkin, and I didn't even get any photos of the kids on our front porch. I'm going to try to do things different next year - I definitely won't split the day between two towns 130 miles apart.