Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Our Ward Halloween Carnival and Trunk-or-treat was on Friday night. We ate chili and corn bread, played games (fishing game, duck pond, pumpkin ring toss, pumpkin bowling, cupcake walk, face painting, bean bag toss and one where you stick your hand up a big monster nostril and go through gooey nose hair to get a treat) then had a trunk-or-treat and it wasn't raining! I invited Darbi to come with us and since Mat was working late she decided to come with the kids (they are our neighbors and good friends). Kate was super excited that they came. Kyle had to go early to set up the fishing pond (elder's quorum was in charge of that- each auxillary did a game) so I met him there. I had made chili and corn bread for the potluck (I made both since I invited someone and didn't make them bring anything. I wanted to make sure there was enough food) and then I made halloween cupcakes for the cupcake walk because Young Women's was in charge of that. Along with making all of that, Preston had a well child doctor appointment in the morning and I had to run some errands so it was a busy day.

Kate the ballerina

Preston as Thomas the Tank Engine (he didn't want to wear the hat, but wore it the whole night!)

Lindsey the ladybug

Our friends that came with us. L-R: Dallas (cowgirl), Kate, Logan (runner), Asher (rhinoceros), Preston and Lindsey in front.

Mummy and Monster cupcakes. I found both ideas online. The green frosting got soft over time so next time I would make the frosting thicker so those peaks stay and not "melt". But these were both fast to make.

I saw these owl cupcakes on Pinterest a while ago and loved them. So I was excited to have an excuse to make them. Well...little did I know that pulling apart oreos would be hard to do! I broke them or pulled off half of the white cream trying to separate them. In the picture off pinterest they are perfectly white, but yeah right. It's hard to get them apart without some brown still on the white part. I ended up taking a small paring knife and cutting them apart. That worked the best. The nose and eyes are reeses pieces. Pretty simple once I figured out how to separate oreos!

Our trunk for the trunk-or-treat. :)

Afterwards, Preston said "that was a fun night. I had fun." He kept going back to trunk-or-treat more. haha. Kate was having fun trading candy with friends and overall it really was a fun night. Now we have lots of yummy candy and we get to go trick-or-treating more on Halloween night! Woohoo!