A Very Belated Halloween Recap

It's been crazy around here, including the girl on the 3rd floor of our building flooding her apartment and it leaking through the second floor and finally to our floor last night, so I haven't had much time to upload these photos and write this post. I am a week late, so humor me while I do a recap of our Halloween weekend.

It started Wednesday evening when our ward had a trunk or treat, chili cook off and a party. It turned out awesome. Even though I am saddened that more kids go trunk or treating than door to door, it's quite the way to make a killing on the candy very quickly! Anna was more interested running up and down the hill than collecting candy and her new favorite thing to do is to dump....anything - it gets really fun. Here she is dumping out her candy as I try and stop her.

They also let the kids decorate sugar cookies. I tried to frost Anna's as quickly as possible while she was already trying to add her toppings. She dumped a huge handful of both sprinkles and m&m's on top of each other in one spot on the cookie.

She wanted nothing to do with the cookie or the sticky frosting - she just wanted to eat the candy. She is triumphant as she held the m&m in the air and yelled 'Oh Mommy! CANDY!'

Friday night Anna went trick or treating with her cousins Bradee and Maddison and afterwords we headed to the 2nd annual 'Hutchison Halloween Hoopela'. Seeing as how I am an honorary member of their family, my family too was invited. We had all sorts of yummy and festive food - I only got a picture of a few things because I was soon distracted and just began eating it all.

My mummy pizzas

We played lots of fun games. The Hutchisons know how to do holidays right people and dressing up WAS required. So I sported the last Halloween costume I have worn, which was my senior year of high school...I was a waitress from the Crashdown Cafe from the show Roswell :) Thanks Jenny for the idea.


The main event was the Halloween Olympics. I borrowed these pictures from Marie's blog because I was not able to take pictures of the events seeing as how I was in them. We had Donut Eating Contest (winner-tie between Natalie and Ross), the Broomstick Pull (I dominated at this game, thank you very much), Candle Blowing Contest, Jello Hunt, a Howling contest, and a game where we spelled a Halloween word with our bodies. I am very proud to say that team 'Peanut M&M's a.k.a. Marcia and I (our motto was 'we are nuts') came out victorious. For a full recap please see here.


Saturday night we went to a Halloween party with some of Ross' friends (who just so happened to have married some of my friends too - great how that worked out). The little kids had fun playing with each other while we ate yummy soup, went on a scavenger hunt, had a donut eating contest and filmed the most random short story/movie I have ever seen.

The donut eating contest was hilarious. Everyone but Faith and I participated, as there needed to be judges and I eat slow so there is no way I would win. It was so funny to watch everyone try and eat these donuts. One even fell to the garage floor and it still got eaten. The winner was Chapman because he chose the wimpiest donut I ever did see (see picture below).

Thanks Ben and Ash for hosting. It was so fun to see everyone and their kiddos (or soon to be kiddos)! After this Halloween I realized Ross and I are lame for not dressing up like everyone else. So for the next year I will be thinking of costumes we can all sport and ways to convince Ross to go along with it....