Goodbye October, Hello November.

It is great to end each year with fun holidays. We had a safe, and fun Halloween. We enjoyed a night of Trunk or Treat with the Formans at the Colfax ward. Hope was one of the kids voted for “cutest costume” although every kid there was adorable. Sunday morning I decided that we should finally carve a few pumpkins. Daddy was at a meeting and Ethan was asleep so Hope, Bryce and I attempted it. I cut my hand within 30 seconds trying to cut the top off. After I came back from getting it bandaged Hope said, “Mommy, I think that we should wait for Daddy. He is better at cutting pumpkins.” Turns out Daddy is awesome at carving pumpkins. We had the pumpkins hollowed out by the time Daddy came home and he did a great job carving out Jack-o-lantern faces on them. That was the first time in our marriage that we had ever carved pumpkins together so I didn’t know he was so good at it. So now we have bags of candy that we don’t know what to do with. I am the mean Mom who doesn’t want the kids to eat it all, doesn’t want to waste it by throwing it away, and is just not sure what to do. Perhaps they’ll forget about it being in the cupboard.