Halloween 2017

Halloween always falls on quarter end for me... so we tried to make the best out of it this year. Especially since we get kids that come trick or treating. Candice and I even decorated our desks and we painted pumpkins to have on our desk. We had fun.

When we went to go pick up dinner for the team, there was a great sunset happening... so I told Candice that she needed to pull over so that I could get a picture... cause you know... me and sunsets. Worth it!!

Anyway... the team wanted to do a simple team costume. So we came up with the idea of doing Pac Man. Our boss, Jeri, was Mrs. Pacman and we were all the ghosts in the game. We were going to put dots all over the floors because the cubicles look like maze, but we didn't get around to that. It was a big accomplishment that we even all "dressed up" aka... Candice and I cut out most of the ghosts for other people. ha ha. Better than nothing I guess.

Halloween Dinner for the Kids - Take 7

I have said this before, but I think I love this tradition more than the kids do. So glad Kristy started it and that my mom is happy to play along.

Kristy brought the snake rolls. Super cool.

My mom did the bulk of the dinner. Anything that isn't already halloween themed.. gets bugs in it to fit the dinner. The show stopper was the zombie lasagna. Good work mom!


I volenteered to make the dessert because we were also celebrating Calvins birthday. I made a Jack Skelington Cake. How did I do? ha ha... can you tell what it is? I tried.

Great dinner. Always fun to see the new things we come up with every year. Can't wait to see what we do next year.

Hruska's Hogwarts Halloween

I love Hruska's Kolache's... so when I found out they were doing a Harry Potter day, I decided I was going and I convinced Candice to come with me. We waited in quite the line... but it was worth it. I love getting all festive for holidays.

Masked Carved Pumpkins

Got my mom to carve pumpkins with me. I don't think it is her favorite thing to do... but she was nice enough to do it with me because I wanted to. I have less and less friends the older I get, so my family has to put up with all the stuff I want to do.

We both like how they turned out though. Pretty cute huh? Different take on carving pumpkins.

Halloween Nights

I love that Utah has so many events and festivals. So much to do and see around the holidays and I love it. Halloween Nights is a new event they added that is held at the fairgrounds in SLC. It was kind of pricey... but I was glad that I went. Not sure I will go every year... but maybe every couple years. We shall see.

Here is a summary if what was there. There were cool pumpkin carvings...

And lots of themed pumpkin passages.

There was an area with an outdoor movie and place you good buy food and treats. I loved that they were playing Harry Potter.

My favorite was the entry/exit though. The entire thing with lit pumpkins... was quite magical.

It was a fun festive event to go to.

Mapleton Pumpkin Contest

Last night after dinner, my mom mentioned that there was a pumpkin contest on display at Mapleton Park, so we all drove down to go see it. Pretty fun idea!

These were some of my favorites.