It's been a very exciting Halloween weekend!

Cat's Friday: put on sparkly jack-o-lantern t-shirt; have a Spirit Rally at school; decorate a gingerbread haunted house; eat popcorn for a snack; have a cupcake for her second snack; bring home a Halloween goody bag; have a playdate with a new friend; eat another cupcake for her third snack; and don costume and attend the ward Trunk or Treat activity, where she gets to collect candy, frost and decorate a cookie, AND have a rainbow-flower painted on her cheek. (Now does it get any better than that?!?)


Then this afternoon we met up with some family and spent several hours at a little corn maze that was just perfect for our kids. The corn maze was fun (Jack loved just wandering around, and had no problem ignoring the pathways), but so was the farm, the drainage-pipe-slide, the 55-gallon-drum-cow-train, and the giant plastic pool full of dry kernels of corn. There were plenty of activities to keep the kids entertained; if it hadn't been 90+ degrees outside and we'd had more time before having to drive home for trick-or-treating, we could have easily spent another hour or two there.


Once we got home, we quickly ate a little dinner before heading out for trick-or-treating. Jack got the hang of this pretty quickly--maybe having practice at the trunk-or-treat last night helped. He held on tight to his pumpkin, and waited for someone to give him candy at the door. He even tried to ring the doorbell a few times. Catherine said, "this is the best part about Halloween!" The nice thing about our neighborhood is that the houses are really far apart, so it takes a while just to go down one road and come back up the other side. Even though we were gone for about an hour, the kids came home with candy, but not tons. It works out really well!

Happy Halloween, everyone!