Man, this has been a WILD month. I started the month with a huge project at work with tight deadlines--I ended up working some 60-70 hour weeks (including working a full day on General Conference weekend). But now things have settled down a LITTLE (although it seems I'll have a pretty busy work schedule the next few months--that's a good thing!)
Then I won TWO contests on Zooppa.com. The first was the $500 "Early Entry Prize" for the Horizon "Back to School Blues" contest:
Then I won 6th place ($700 prize) in the Amazon Wireless Contest:
It was nice to have won something on each--enough to pay for my time and effort, at least. Now I'm just twiddling my thumbs waiting for the checks to arrive!
Amanda and I also got invited to a Pumpkin Carving Party by some people in the ward. Let's just say, we went, but it's obvious we're not fit for social gatherings.
Lots of other stuff happened, too, but let's skip ahead to Halloween. OK, this blog is being posted the day BEFORE Halloween, but the festivities started early.
Saturday night was our ward's "Trunk-or-Treat." After our fairly boring trunk decoration last year, we decided to step it up this year with a "Nightmare Before Christmas" themed trunk:
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We added lots of fun little details, as you can see, including roaches on the candy canes and a dead bird wrapped in the spider web.
The kids also carved pumpkins:
Here's Abe's "Ben 10" themed jack-o' lantern:
And Joel's scary face with an axe in its head:
And Maddy's DALEK (that's from the TV show "Doctor Who"):
As usual, the older kids went as characters no one can recognize. See if you can guess [answers after the pictures].
Joel was Doctor Who:
Maddy was an old-fashioned, "Anne of Green Gables" era lady:
Abe was cartoon superhero Ben 10:
And of course Elliott was Buzz Lightyear (nice to be able to re-use at least ONE costume).
They all got plenty of candy, though before the Trunk-or-treat, we had to teach Elliott how to hold out his candy bucket:
But he didn't need any lessons on EATING the candy (or getting messy):
Well, that about sums things up--bring on Thanksgiving!!!!!
