Pre- Halloween Hype

I love Halloween.

  

We all love Halloween.

It's an unordinary chance to be with family to do unordinary things and look unordinary while doing them. (And yes.  I do realize that "unordinary" is not a word.  And that I shouldn't start a sentence with "and" but this is my blog not yours, right?)

Also it's the time of year.  Cooler outside.  Fresh.  Crunchy underfoot, sometimes squishy. :)  Pumpkin is my favorite seasonal ingredient.  And squash, all varieties.  Soup time.

Also it's all the hype that comes before the actual holiday.  I guess all holidays are like that.  But pre-Halloween hype is extra fun.  Decorating, planning costumes, reading Halloween and other fall themed books, baking, sniffing, enjoying it all.

Once again, now that we are in Utah, we get/got to celebrate with both sides of the family.   

With the Meyers side, we got to go to 2 pumpkin patches with all the fixin's.  Fixin's being hayrides, slides, corn mazes, etc.  Haylee actually went to the same farm with her kindergarten class so she got to do it 3 times. 

Oh, and just a note about how cool these mazes were!!!  Aren't you soooo jealous?  Yes, I walked through the "golden" tangles of Edward's hair!!! Ha!

Also with Meyers cousins, we had a Halloween gingerbread house making party!  Complete with frosting fight!

A Saari House

 A Hatt House

An Edwards House

Being in town (or in state rather), we were able to attend the annual Edwards Family Halloween Party.  I regret to say that I could not include all the pictures of everyone bobbing for apples.  But it was fun.  So fun.  All the "traditional" games plus some with a twist or two.

BINGO

Charades

Bobbing for apples

Donut "Bobbing" with a partner

Treasure hunt for spare coins in bloody brains spaghetti

This pic I just had to include because I think it is so funny.  Ha.