Sunday, October 31, 2004
   
Halloween was soooooo busy this year. Here's a quick review of all the Halloween hauntings at the Henrichsen home:
Wednesday night we went to Nate and Devanie's house with the intention of carving our pumpkins. Devanie had made up some "stew in a pumpkin" and we brought Jello eyeballs and baked beans for dinner. For dessert we had some of Devanie's delicious pumpkin roll. Then the kids bobbed for apples, ate donuts off a string, and played glow-in-the-dark ring toss. Devanie had the whole house decorated in glow-in-the dark sticks and necklaces and the kids had a blast playing with it all. We didn't get our pumpkins carved but we had a blast.
Friday night we had two parties to attend. GE put on a party in Stamford and the kids left with so much candy we determined right there and then that we would not be trick-or-treating on Sunday. As soon as we got home we had to rush over to the school for Hunter's very first school dance. Of course, we were invited and spent most of the evening watching Hunter dance the night away with his friends. He's got some pretty great dance moves and even had little Sarah begging him to please come back to the dance room so they could dance together some more. It was a little hot and hectic there but at least one of us had a good time.
Saturday we stayed home and carved our pumkins. Mark made us some pumpkin seeds and we discovered that Noah, like his father, adores them. As soon as the costumes were dry (we had to wash them after the two former parties) we put them on and made it just in time for the ward Trunk-or-Treat. Again the kids had lots of fun and left with a bunch of candy.
Sunday we went to church as usual. We stopped by Elizabeth's house on our way home to drop off some treats and made it home just in time to scrounge up some candy and greet the first trick-or-treaters of the night. We didn't go out but Hunter and Noah had a blast handing out candy to all the ghosts and goblins that stopped by our doorstep. Hunter stood on the front porch shouting, "Free candy! Free candy!" Then he and Noah would dive behind the bushes and wait for some poor, unsuspecting Trick-or-Treater to knock on our door. They'd jump out and scare whoever was standing there and then load up their bag with candy. Afterwards we sat down and had dinner while we watched "Hocus Pocus."
It was a very exhausting week, but I think everyone had fun and we definitely got our year's supply of candy squared away. Everyone was impressed by Hunter's costume, which Mark added to again this year. He made a vest and ruffles for the sleeves and neck. We didn't win any costume contests but we definitely should have. We won't be selling that costume on Ebay, or anywhere for that matter--it's way too awesome. (View our imagestation for more pics of the Halloween week, including our view of the Eclipse last Wednesday.)
posted by Shana # 11:20 PM 
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