Elizabeth was a cowgirl for Halloween; Mom made her costume
and it was adorable. She learned the
appropriate "yeehaw" so she was able to show off her costume. We were out of town (at Vampire Weekend) for
our trunk-or-treat but Mom took her to theirs and she had a good time. We then filled our week with fun Halloween
stuff.
Monday night, we went to a Halloween Party at the YMCA. It was crazy, there were a ton of people
there, but it was so fun to see all the costumes and play the games. There was a room of carnival games that the
kids got to play, the gym had bouncy castles (a big one and a small one for
the younger kids-yay) and there was a
glow-in-the-dark room with more carnival games, a dance party and a string
obstacle course. There were other
activities but by the end we were all tired out.
Friday (Halloween) morning we went to a Halloween Party at
the Library. I thought it started at
10:30, so we rushed over there after going to the gym, but it didn't start
until 11:30 (ugg). I was going to leave
but Elizabeth got distracted by a train set and puzzles, so we ended up staying
and waiting. There were a lot of people
at this also (80 kids) and we sang songs/danced, read scary books, did a craft
and went trick or treating through the library.
It was fun and I think it got Elizabeth excited for trick or treating.
That afternoon we went and got Ben from work and we all went
to Pearl Street in Boulder. Pearl Street
has a special trick-or-treating event, where all the stores give out
candy. It was WAY busier that we
expected but it was so much fun.
Elizabeth really got into the trick-or-treating, although it always just
came out as "Treat!," and was funny because she would stand and
inspect (I think in aww) all the candy before she put it in her pumpkin.
Sometimes she would get to pick the candy out of the bowl herself and she would
contemplate and then, almost always, pick the kind of candy that she couldn't
eat (jolly ranchers/ Gobstopers); by next year, I will have to train her to
get the chocolate!
Pearl Street took a lot longer than we had anticipated, so
we were not able to go trick-or-treating with friends, so we stopped in Boulder
to get food. Where sounded good?
IHOP. We find that we crave IHOP on
occasion and during/after always wonder why.
Here Elizabeth sat on the table and covered her skirt in ketchup (I was
thankfully able to wash it out in the sink). We then headed home, with one stop
at a member's house in our ward that make scones in their garage. By this time it was 7 and Elizabeth was beat
but I wanted to trick or treat a little bit of our neighborhood so I drug her
(actually it ended up me carrying her) to some houses in our neighborhood. We live in a neighborhood with a lot of older
people and there are not a lot of kids (aka trick-or-treaters); so many of the
houses were dark/not passing out candy and the other ones were giving away
handfuls to get rid of all the extra candy they bought. At the end, I begged Ben to let us go to one
more house and it was an older gentleman.
He said it was late and he was going to bed (it was about 7:30 by this
time) and so he had to give away his candy.
He gave Elizabeth a piece of candy and then gave us 5 full sized
hersey's bars! I was so excited, it was a good way to end the night!
We went home, quickly got Elizabeth bathed and ready for
bed, changed into our costumes and headed out the door to go to some friends
Halloween Party. It was a long drive but
it was fun to see our friends, the Andersons (who we had not seen in a long
time), and we got to play/learn some fun new games.
It was a fun Halloween and we have decided that all Holidays
are made more fun with Elizabeth!!
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