Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween. We had two families, The Alexanders and The Guthries, over to have a spooky dinner and pumpkin carving. I really wanted to make homemade rootbeer, but they don't carry the rootbeer flavoring or dry ice in the grocery stores. I guess that you have to go to some speciality store to get the dry ice and no one that I asked had ever heard of the rootbeer flavoring. We had a good time. The pumpkin contest wasn't quite as loud as the competition that we have with the Staheli's but it was fun to bring that tradition over here with us. For Halloween night our ward had a ward party. They went all out and had a spook alley and games to play and sloppy joes. Then people decorated rooms in the church for the kids to come to and trick-or-treat. They don't just give out a couple pieces of candy almost everyone had made little treat bags with 5 or 6 pieces of candy in them to had out. It was really fun!!
Brock left on his flag football uniform. Austin was Derek Jeter, we have some big time Yankee's fans in our ward and they have adopted Austin. They gave him an extra Derek Jeter christmas ornament that they had and even ordered him a championship t-shirt. McKenna was Hannah Montana. And Alyssa wore the Belle dress. They all looked so cute!

The final product!

Everyone busy carving.