Trick-or-Treat

Okay, so we didn't get to hear this phrase at our own place this Halloween season primarily because we live in a basement apartment that no one knows about and therefore didn't get any trick-or-treaters. Tragic, I know. We did, however, get to celebrate Halloween in other ways this year: 

We kicked off the holiday by going to Brian and Chantel's annual pumpkin carving party. A ton of people from our ward showed up and we ended up carving away with some friends: 

Last year, while carving pumpkins together on a double date with one of Bennett's mission companions, I learned an interesting fact about my soon to be husband at the time. He is afraid of pumpkin guts. Seriously. Afraid. Like he wont touch them. I on the other hand have a sick and twisted fascination with pumpkin guts. Hence, I am the designated de-gutter. He is the designated carver. Win-win situation. 

 Our ward/high school friends, the McConkies and their beautiful baby girl

And this is our child. We're proud parents of our little munchkin. 

Tragically, he died a week later when some sort of creature attacked him and spun a very dense web inside of him. 

Our next event was the annual Child family halloween party. We went the lazy route this year when Andrea, Preston and I all pulled out our Student Body Officer sweaters from the back of our closet and went as school spirit promoters from Centerville Junior High. 

We went to a Halloween Arts Festival at the Masonic Temple to see the premiere of a new Halloween film that Chantel was in. Her film was great, although the other films shown were a little too far on the gory side of the Halloween spectrum for an innocent little mind like mine. However, it was so fun to see Chantel's masterpiece. (Sorry, no pictures)

On Saturday we went to our second annual murder mystery dinner hosted by my parents. Check out last years party here. This year was a 70's celebrity theme. My assigned character was Farrah Fawcett (innocent) and Bennett was assigned Ron Howard. We had so much fun getting our costumes all pulled together and playing the part of our celebrities, 70's style. Turns out Bennett was the one who killed a man. All over a stolen pet rock. A bit of an over reaction if you ask me.

I've started my practicum at an elementary school in West Jordan in a 6th grade class (LOVE it- more about that later) and was able to dress up as my easy go-to costume: gypsy. The little kiddos were adorable in their costumes and it was so fun to participate in a classroom Halloween party after having taken a ten year sabbatical from them. 

On Halloween, my mom and dad invited us over to eat chili and donuts, classic Halloween food. Afterwards, we watched the latest episode of Psych (our favorite TV show) which had a Halloweenish plot to it. 

It was a great Halloween for us! Hope you all had a fabulous one as well!