This year, we surprisingly had NO Star Wars related costumes. What's up with that???
Megan was a Snow Leopard.
She did her own face painting, naturally.
Ian was Artemis Fowl,
a character from one of his favorite book series.
Erin was a Great Horned Owl again.
She still LOVES owls.
Dallin was Flash,
not because he necessarily likes Flash a lot,
but because Flash wears a red costume,
and Dallin is currently obsessed with the color red.
We had a fun day, starting out with a group activity with our homeschool co-op. Sadly, I forgot the camera, but you can try to imagine a witch making witch's brew, children decorating Halloween sugar cookies and drinking the brew, eating the cookies, and eating some eyeballs.
Oh, we do have a photo of the "Edible Eyeballs" we made. We took these to co-op and sent a bunch with Kevin to share with his Anatomy students. (Note to Kevin: please insert the photo of your students with the eyeballs when you get a chance.) We altered the recipe and made them with rice krispies instead of doughnut holes (Megan's preferred choice) so they turned out a bit lumpier. We also used almond bark instead of the Ghiradelli white chocolate because AWC doesn't pay its employees enough to afford the amount of white chocolate it would have taken to make enough eyeballs for all the Anatomy students. They still tasted good and everyone really enjoyed them. Well...except for Dallin who spit out the gummy saver part and said he didn't like it--he likes gummy bears just fine--go figure!
The morning was so exhausting that half the family took a nap.
Dallin wore his costume ALL day long.
Group photo before going out to collect candy from the neighbors:
While we were trick-or-treating on our street, we left a bucket with candy on our porch to share with other trick-or-treaters using the honor system (we used to do this in Logan). When we returned, someone had STOLEN THE BUCKET AND ALL THE CANDY!!! So, next year if you come trick-or-treating to our place, you'll have to see us in person if you want to get any candy from us. (Side note: parents drive children from other areas of town to go trick-or-treating in the nicer neighborhoods, so we are guessing that random other kids were the thieves rather than our local neighborhood children.)
And, last, but not least, here are my renowned Halloween Scorpion Cupcakes!
They were mighty tasty!
Only privileged people get to have these, since most people don't appreciate the effort that goes into making them. Jim from the power line crew had made a special request. Look how excited he is to have some!
