Halloween Reruns

Happy Halloween!


It's been super busy around here since John got laid off. (funny how that works) So busy that I have to resort to posting Halloween leftovers from 2010 and 2009. I will try and post current Halloween pics this week though. K?


Till then, check these out:
http://mormonsurrogate.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween

And here's a few Halloweenish videos to watch:

Halloween- You tell me

So, I want to know-:

1- Did you trick or treat on Saturday or Sunday?

2- Did YOU dress up with your kids?

3- What is your favorite picture from this Halloween?

Now, let me answer my own questions.

1- Saturday. I figured even if we wanted to go trick or treating on Sunday (which we have before)- we'd be outnumbered. I mean we live in Utah. So unless you know which houses would be giving out candy on Sunday, it would be hit and miss and probably tiring and disappointing.
We were so busy Friday and Saturday doing things that we didn't make caramel apples until Sunday and I never had time to carve my pumpkin.  At least the kids did theirs on Saturday.

My husband did the Mickey Mouse part, my daughter turned it into Minnie.

My 6 year old's design: Minnie Mouse dressed up as a bunny for Halloween

2- I dressed up on Friday when our church had their Halloween party, and it was so much fun. 

My charming children

 I was in a very Halloweeny mood. However, on Saturday, it just wasn't feeling like Halloween. We had my dad and step mom over for pizza, and we had a nice time, but I just wasn't so much in the go all out Halloween mood. I did wear my festive Halloween shirt and after awhile threw on a mask to try and scare the trick or treaters that came to our house.  Hubby was dressed scarier than me though. He was holding the candy bowl on the porch. I wanted to see if kids would approach him. This little boy comes up and tells me that I don't scare him. Then he reaches his little hand into the candy bowl and doesn't seemed phased by my husband until hubby lunges toward him and makes some sort of scary sound. Funniest thing ever. I wish I had caught it on video.

3- My favorite picture this Hallowen:

We were at our church Halloween party and I couldn't resist snatching this baby up. I mean, come on, I was dressed as Jack Sparrow. I approached the dad and said I think this baby belongs to me and he handed her over. She just studied me for a minute and let me hold her.

A Halloween Poem by Mormon Surrogate

I didn't have time to edit...



*Pictures found on Google for visual purposes.
The poem belongs to me.



Candy, treats and witches brew

some for me and some for you.

Ghosts and goblins saying Boo!

A cold dark night that's mixed with fright.

It's best for a full moon.

Time for you to be someone new

with your costume.

Graveyards call and animals howl,

was that the wind or just an owl?

Creepy spirits swirl around
while little tots run through your town.
Pumpkins stare and blink with light.

Bats fly 'round with little sight.
An excuse to dress up your pets.

For some it's a night of regrets.

5 Little Pumpkins

Trunk or Treat

I had an awesome time helping John and Jake set up and scare at the famous Buntjers Haunted House. If you live in our neighborhood/ward, you know what I'm talking about! :)

I was so excited to scare kids. Of course the "older" kids didn't scare as easy as the younger ones. The line was crazy to get in and the kids were waiting before we were even "open" for business.

It was too dark and foggy to get pictures of the inside, but I tried to get pics of the progress and the line.

If the picture editor will work for me, I'd love to post the pictures.

Halloween already? Among other ramblings...

How on earth can it be time for Halloween already? I mean this weekend, seriously? I don't even know if I'm going to dress up or what I would dress up as. Hmmmm... I'm excited. Fall is a great time.. and Halloween is so fun. Plus... CANDY... YUM! John goes all out on Halloween dressing up and all that. I think he's going to be helping our friend with a haunted house. What sucks is that John has to work on Halloween, and I don't know what time he'll get off. The festivities around here start at 5:00 or 5:30. I'm hoping he can get off by 2:00 or 3:00.

John has been working overtime lately which is so bittersweet. We need the money YES! But it's hard when he got out of the Navy to spend more time with us. That is hard to do when he works Monday-Saturday till about 6:00 PM, comes home filthy so there's 1/2 an hour to shower. I guess I should be grateful we at least can eat dinner together and I'm certainly thankful I get to sleep next to him each night. I am just feeling like I saw him more when he was in the Navy. (only because he would fly home Friday and we'd have the weekend to run around together) I really should stop complaining.... but not yet. He usually only has to work Mon-Thurs and that's been awesome, but like I said, we needed the extra money. A Friday here, a Saturday there is great. Yes, he gets overtime if it lines up right. Well anyay, so last week he was supposed to work Friday and Saturday.. but he had his kidney infection pain.. and then the antibiotics would knock him out.. so he couldn't work!

So he was home, but sick.. and the kids were sick and I wasn't feeling so good myself. Then this past weekend he had to work Friday and Saturday.. I feel like we need a date night so bad! We were able to sneak in a family dinner with the kids Saturday. He got home at a decent time, went home, showered, picked up little Jessie from his mom's and met us at Chili's. It was nice, but then it's bed time, we have a 45 minute drive home.. and then we're all exhausted and have to get up for church the next day.

Really I'm being a whiner, because church isn't until 1:00 PM. Plenty of time right? Not when you're exhausted and have 3 kids to get ready and had a rough week. While we were at Chili's my favorite missionary called. Him and his companion were at our house to visit. Aw man... :( I felt bad we weren't home. He said he was leaving to go HOME on Tuesday (or at least that was his last day being a missionary here) and wanted to say goodbye. I asked if they could come over the next day (sunday-yesterday) He said they could do 2:00, but I said we'd be in church. He said something like what do you want to go to church for? LOL... we decided they could come at 10:00 AM before church. So we had to get up earlier than usual... and it was well worth it. He's just a great guy and a wonderful missionary. I really hope we can stay in touch. He told us he loved us and we got to hug him and say goodbye. We definitely LOVE him too! We might be going to a fireside Wednesday night to see him one last time. That would be awesome. He is so genuine. Some missionaries are so monotone and you just feel like they're going through the motions. I could see the truth shining in this guy. No denying that. Everything he shared with us was heartfelt and pure.

Since John and I had both had a long, rough week... we only went to sacrament meeting. We came home and relaxed for a bit and then had dinner. Our home teachers came over and we had a nice time with them. (one was a fill in.. and he's a great/funny guy) John was really not feeling like having them over.. but I think those are the times you need them the most. Once they came, he didn't seem to mind at all, and we laughed and joked and then had a nice little lesson and it was all good.

Shortly after John was ordained an Elder, we had our last temple lesson at the Buntjers. We talked a little about the priesthood and blessings. Both of the girls wanted a blessing right then and there. It was awesome. I think Jeremy got a blessing later that night at home. I was going to get one later as well. However, it didn't happen. So I hope it would happen sometime before we went to the temple, but it didn't. Well yesterday I really felt like I needed one. I always have been a huge fan of priesthood blessings. I've been amazed so many times by the power felt and the personal things said. I never thought I'd have a husband that could give me such a blessing. What a cool feeling that he could help me in such a personal/powerful way in our own home when I needed it. I didn't have to call someone else and hope they could come as soon as I wanted. I think he's struggled a bit with giving blessings. They are stil new and a bit foreign to him. I don't know if he knows how to feel the spirit and let it guide him. He's not sure if his mind can shut off long enough to listen to anything but the voices in his head. (ha ha not really.. but he has ADHD, so he's alwyas got something going on in his mind)
Well it was finally time for my blessing. He seemed a bit nervous, almost shy, which is so unlike him. But I understand, this is all still new to us, praying in front of each other.. it's getting easier and less awkward, but it will take some time. However, he did what he needed to get ready and he totally redeemed himself. It was so amazing to connect like that between Heavenly Father, John and me. He knew just what to say, just what I needed to hear. I'm so proud and grateful that he is my husband and that he's become such an honorable man.