Halloween

All told, I had a fun Halloween.

It didn't start so well. This is the first year since... Well... The first year I EVER remember (other than when I was a missionary and had a pretty strict dress code) that I didn't even attempt to dress up for Halloween. Sure, I wore my Jack Skellington glow-in-the-dark hat from Disneyland, but I wear that hat year-round.

My boys came Trick-Or-Treating at my workplace. In about an hour, my younger son's candy was too heavy for him to carry. Because of that, we didn't have to go Trick-Or-Treating door to door. (Which would have been another flashback to my missionary days.)

We spent the rest of the night enjoying each other's company. The boys had carved jack-o-lanterns the night before. We had an Oogie Boogie from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and a Trogdor from homestarrunner.com. I had printed out a pattern of an evil jester that I wanted to carve, but unfortunately it didn't fit the pumpkin that was left, so I resorted to carving The Cheat from homestarrunner.com. I took pictures of them and hopefully, I'll post them here soon.

We made homemade root beer, homemade pizza, and sat around and watched a movie between groups of kids coming to the door. Honestly, it was nice to just be able to be home for the night.

Next year, I'm going to dress up though. They had GOOD prizes for the costumes at work. Several runner-up costumed people got $25 iTunes gift certificates... And to think I could have gotten a cast discount at the Hale Center Theater in Orem! Definately a missed opportunity.

It was a fun day though. Now I have to try to restrain myself from snitching the good candy from my boys' stashes.