Unfortunately I don't have pictures of our costumes last night. Things were kinda crazy, and there were a couple of hours that I was panicking - which I tried to avoid that this year, but it happened anyway. This year we were going to do a hot chocolate open house, but with doing the program for Bids to Bless (i'll hopefully post about later), making all 5 costumes, and preparing to leaving town the day after Halloween - it fell by the wayside. I couldn't decide what time to make it and so didn't send out the invitations, etc. I think next year since Jed will not be going out late, we will just go to a few houses then come home and have it while the older kids go for longer.
Wednesday, I was so proud of myself because I was ahead of the game - I had cut and pinned all the pieces I needed to sew for Quianna's bolero - the last costume that needed to be done. But with having three kids - one being 9 months old, other things came precedent, like dinner and carving pumpkins, and a crying baby. I started sewing again Thursday morning, but only got so far before I needed to get ready for Visiting Teaching. VT lasted until I had to go pick Quianna up from school to go to her Physical Therapy appointment. We got home at 4:15 and then it was crunch time. Make the dough for the pizza, check email to see if I received confirmation that the program was approved - didn't. Make dough for bread sticks. put pizzas together. Put one in oven. Send off program to be printed. finish sewing Quianna's costume. Feed Jed. Quianna's friend came over. AH! one pizza burnt because Elijah didn't hear the timer go off while I was feeding Jed. Family has dinner. I eat a piece a pizza while finishing things up. Make Quianna's crown. Go get dressed. Oh crud - Elijah says their's Trick-or-Treaters coming! Get candy in bowl. Finish getting ready. Oh yay! Brian is getting Jed ready. Quianna calls for me. Elijah calls for me. Draw Elijah's mustache. Put Quianna's crown on. Head out to car. PHEW!
Ok that was how I felt, these are the good parts of the day. I met a wonderful lady who just had a baby a few weeks ago. She is coming back to the church and is new on our VT list. She was fun to visit. We had a Jack-o-Lantern pizza. That was fun. Brian was Luigi, I was Daisy, Quianna was Peach, Elijah was Mario, and Jed was Toad. I think we looked awesome. I'll have to take pictures of us tonight (probably in the tri-cities) before we give Kylee's dress back to her. We took the kids to the neighborhood next to us because nobody is in our neighborhood. The one next to us is booming with people and so almost everyone is home and ready for Trick-or-treating. After that neighborhood, we took the kids to see one of Quianna's young women leaders because she wanted to see our costumes. Then we headed over to the Heppler's house because Amy wanted to see our costumes. She had made this coconut hot chocolate. It was delicious, but thick and rich. The kids took full glasses but ended up taking only a sip. I felt so bad about that! By that time it was 8:30 and Jed was ready for bed. So Brian took me home to feed him and take him to bed while he took Quianna's friend home.
And then, that was our night. It ended up being really fun. I wish I had took pictures. Oh well, I'll take some pictures today of our pumpkins and then tonight of our costumes.
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