October 30 and 31, 2009

Friday 30~~~~ I am having a Halloween slumber party here for all my kids tomorrow night like we did 7 years ago when it was on a Sat. night and last year when Kent flew me home from Arizona to surprise the kids because it was on Friday night. By the time it is on a weekend again, (7 years from now ) we will probably have some great grand babies (maybe) who knows!! So this will be the last one for several years with us traveling and it falling on week nights. We wanted to have a lot of fun getting together this year as it might be our last year to do this as the kids are grown and go to more adult parties. I spent today baking 2 1/2 dozen Carmel rolls for breakfast in the morning, a double batch of frosted sugar cookies, a large batch of marshmallow popcorn balls and a batch of frosted chocolate marshmallow cookies. (Carol Heaths recipe) Kalie (Bills girl) and Shelby (Pammy's girl) came over and helped me with some of the baking. We are a family who love to work and be together in the kitchen. My son Bill and Tress came over this evening to hang outside lights for me. They don't show up in the picture, but they were sure pretty after dark. Saturday 31~~~~The kids brought all kinds of food and snacks to eat all night, I made chille dogs, we had plenty of food for a great party. We all brought candy to hand out to our "trick or treaters", we give them lots of small candy bars as we are about the only house on our street who open the doors for the kids and we want to make it worth while for them to stop every year. William and Kalli spent a lot of time painting their faces for the evening (pictures ) Joel was a pirate, He stopped here for a visit before he headed to his friends party. Shelby was a prisoner and Breanna ???? They went to some of the houses in the neighborhood trick or treating and some of the adults went with Bodie and Blaize as they are 4 and 8 years old and really have knocking on the doors. Kim got sick and had to cancel at the last minute and we sure missed her but we had fun and while the kids watched scary movies down stairs, we adults played cards upstairs. What fun we had and the breakfast the next morning was great with all of us in our PJ's drinking lots of hot coffee & Kent's apple cider while eating the Carmel rolls I baked, maple bars and cake donuts (Kent always buys) and of course the sugar cookies we all love so much. (picture) I think more families should try this some time, it is really a lot of fun.