Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun this year.  Carving pumpkins night is usually chaotic and dramatic but it seemed to go pretty smoothly.  It's always nice when everyone is happy with the outcome!  Halloween night was not too cold or windy (like the previous days) and turned out to be tons of fun this year.  Anders went to a neighborhood Halloween party where he had a "teenage" good time.  He started out trick-or-treating with his little brothers which was so kind of him.  Anna was a fairy with her adorable neighbor friends who were also fairies and her very good friend who was a BYU fan.  Elli was a fairy like witch.  She trick-or-treated with the big girls this year and her good friend and her cousin Katie.  Bret and Anders took the little boys.  Tait was a football player, Finn was a knight and Hans was a cowboy.  Hans had no interest in holding his treat bag and leaving the house.  We tried to convince him he'd have fun.  Finally I went through the whole scenerio, "Take your bag to the door, say trick-or-treat, open your bag, they'll put candy in your bag and then you can knock on another door."  He grabbed his bag out of my hands and walked out the door saying,"let's go!"  His attitude was, "well why didn't you say that in the first place."  His two cousins, Ben the cow and Jett the other cowboy came later to trick-or-treat with us.  Grandma and Grandpa Howard were there along with the cow and cowboy's parents (Keri, Jess, Mikan and Zach).   After a fun night, Bret and I hustled off to our indoor soccer game.  Yes, laugh all you want.  We're feeling what you're thinking-aren't you a bit old for that?  We won, however.  And we played a bunch of young bucks (college students).  It was an eventful and highly successful Halloween!