The kids trick-or-treated 3 times in the last 3 days: once at Nils' work, the ward trunk-or-treat, and actual trick-or-treating tonight. If Halloween was contained to one night of trick-or-treating, I'd probably have a better attitude about it. Amen and amen.
Anyhoo, the kids wanted to carve watermelons this year, since we have such fond memories from a couple of years ago. It was actually a real pain in the neck to carve 4 watermelons this year. We're going back to pumpkins next year. Watermelon rinds are pretty flimsy, and did you know there's a copious amount of juice that comes from 4 watermelons? Yeah. Addie's sign says, "Wa-wa melons are lame." Hers didn't work out the way she wanted.
I've never been to a school Halloween parade, because honestly it always sounded torturous to me, dragging the littles to the school to watch the older ones, and BTW I've already seen my kids' costumes... So I attended my very first Halloween parade today, and it was oh-so underwhelming. How is this even a thing? Haven't all the parents seen their kids in their costumes? Didn't they just drop their kids off at school in their costumes? I'm confused. But it was great seeing my girls for 1/2 a second each as they sprinted past me to catch up with their class. See? I'm such a poop head!
Anders dressed as Bob Ross (this pic was taken pre-beard application), Addie was Smurfette, Aani was a little gray raincloud, and Ava was Ariel. And then there's NilsyNils the photo bomber rubbing his Budah belly. I do love these people! Trick-or-treating was quite fun tonight going around our neighborhood. This is the first year we've gone since we moved here, and it was pretty great. I do love the sense of community that trick-or-treating creates.
I really could do without the 15 pre-Halloween celebrations, though. Did I mention that? :)
