Sunday, November 17, 2013

A visit with Opa & Halloween Festivities

At the end of October Opa had to come to SLC from his mission in South Africa to accompany missionary home.  We were able to make a day trip to SLC and have breakfast with him, JG & Ledjin.  If was good to see him and have a little time together. (Of course I didn't get any pictures!)

Afterwards we took the kids to the Halloween event at the Gallivan center - this kick started their 'candy collecting' about a week early :)







That afternoon we met our good friends, the wickhams, at the pumpkin walk in Logan - it was so cute!  We had a great time & enjoyed dinner together afterward, it was good to catch up!










On the monday before Halloween we painted & carved our pumpkins!




Halloween day we were able to go help at the Halloween party at Laexins school.  It was fun to be in this tiny little school house for a holiday celebration - everything is so laid back there, both LeGrand and I commented that it was the first time we had every been at a school that not only didn't care but actually 'allowed' the kids to wear masks to school.  They did a little Halloween parade through the school, it was cute. You can see that Laex took his costume very seriously, I never once told him to 'pose' but he was in full 'character' for every picture I took :)








Halloween evening we were invited to have soup with some friends then the guys took all the kids out trick-or-treating, they made a haul!  LeGrand always goes through their candy when they get home and throws away all the stuff we know we wont eat.  This year there was maybe a small handful of candy that went in the trash, everyone gave out really good treats :)