and went -luckily. Halloween is over and boy I am glad. Not that I don't love the candy but it is truly one holiday I could live without. I hate Halloween, I am not sure if that makes me sound like a Scrooge but it is true. I think because I turn into a witch about this time each year - and I am not talking about the kind with a broom stick and pointy hat. I just seems so stressful and well stressful. The kids love it though, they talk about if for months and enjoy the spoils of their trick or treating for weeks, well some of them, others just sit down and have one giant candy fest and empty their bucket in a few hours. Which shocks me because they get A LOT of candy. Having Halloween on a Saturday this year really spread out the holiday. The fun began on Wednesday which was Halloween at school. The kids dressed up and had their class parties and school costume parade. Wednesday night was my cub scout haunted house and dinner. Thursday we went to Hee Haws for our Dentist appreciation night. Friday was the Omniture Halloween Party and our Ward party (which was a soup and pie night not a Halloween party) and Saturday we went Trick or Treating.
For some reason I get myself into these little messes with costumes that I don't know how to sew and spend hours and hours and hours trying to get them done and figured out and redone and re figured. Anyway this year Taylor wanted to be Chester cheetah- which I thought was a cute idea. But they do not sell Chester cheetah costumes. So I had to just look up pictures of him and try to figure out how to make it. I spent many many hours working on it. The biggest problem I had with it was that I had a hard time getting Taylor to try it on - he was always busy or gone when I was working on it. So it was pretty much done before he put it all on. I had decided just to buy a pair of long johns and dye them orange and sew spots on them to make the cheetah suit. I thought it worked out ok till he put them on. When we got the long johns Rick was there so I asked him to go with Taylor in the dressing room to make sure they fit. They came back saying they did. Well they do - if you are wearing them as underwear but they are skin tight and show every little thing and there are parts of a 11 year old boy that maybe shouldn't be seen at school. I almost cried I didn't know what to do. It wasn't super appropriate for him to be running around town in something so skin tight and revealing but I spent so many hours on it I didn't really want to scrap it and I wasn't sure how to fix it. I shouldn't have trusted Rick to help him try them on. Oh well he wore it and no one has said anything about it yet.
About every other month 2 of my cub scouts (the denners) are in charge of planning a activity. This time it was a Halloween dinner and a Haunted House. We invited the wolf den to come and go through the haunted house. It was a very interesting experience to watch the boys get so excited about planning such an event. The discussed it for weeks, planning and scheming and anticipating. They talked about what they would wear, what kind of props they would have and how scary it would be. Frankly I was scared - scared the whole thing would be a flop. I didn't really have any desire to do this, so I tried to make it very clear to they boys that they were in charge and would need to bring ALL of the decorations and do the set up. I did however get very nervous that they wouldn't follow through with all their big plans - so I went over to the church early in the day and hung up all the black sheets to make kind of a maze going through the room. I figured this would be too hard for them to do. Well some of the boys really surprised me and showed up right after school with loads of stuff to work on it. We decorated for several hours. When we were finished we had a pretty decent haunted house. Well the wolf den came and we had dinner then the haunting began. All the boys were really excited to go in the haunted house. We only let in a couple at a time. The first two went in, the door shut, and maybe 2 minutes went by then it opened again. The two little boys were begging to get out - they were terrified. So we let them out and sent the next 2 in. Same thing. So I had a little talk with my monsters and ghouls and told them to turn it down a notch. Well it took several groups but finally a couple brave wolves made it through. Once 1 boy successfully finished others decided to try again. I guess it was just a lot scarier than I thought it could possibly be. Although we told the boys, several time, not to touch anyone they were actually grabbing people. Apparently they just couldn't help themselves. Several boys came out with red rings around their necks where the "monsters and ghouls" had grabbed them. This required a lot of discussion and threats to stop the haunted house so they calmed down a bit. All in all it was a huge success - which I guess made all the work, stress and worry well worth it.
The Omniture party was just as over the top as they always are. It utterly amazes me how much work goes into their parties. I have never seen anything like it. I am always excited to see what they come up with - especially what they are going to use the dwarfs for. Every year they hire dwarfs to be part of the executive teams theme. The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory year they played the Umpalumpas, then they were the 7 dwarfs, then the Munchkins. This year they were smurfs. One thing I realized is how much my kids don't know about things I figured they knew all about. Like smurfs. Don't all kids know who the smurfs are. Mine didn't. They also had no clue who the Flintstones, Beatlejuice or pac man were. Thanks to his recent death they had heard of Micheal Jackson but Thriller was all new to them. Well there is no way really to describe an Omniture Halloween so if you are interested check out these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=det0khhzfJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhQnsYVSe4
Trick or treating brought a first for our family. Taylor went with his friends while Rick and I took the other kids. I was a bit nervous at first but figured he was old enough - for one thing it was still like 6:00, and not very dark. We live in a neighborhood where we know EVERYONE and the streets were filled with people we know and trust. So off they went running from house to house trying to fill up their candy bags. The rest of us had fun too. The kids were begging to go home and Rick was pleading with them to do "just one more street". They also got more candy than any child should be allowed to have. Good thing I am such a good mom and willing to take some of it off their hands for them. We all watched the movie "Something Wicked This Way Comes" when we got home. What a weird movie.
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