Halloween

I don't know about the rest of you, but my family had a blast this Halloween! It was lots of fun to be able to go all out instead of packing up the house!
It was weird to be trick-or-treating, though, without freezing to death. Weird, but very nice!


Emily, being Emily, wanted to be a "Star Wars Guy," so here she is in her Jenga Fett costume. Forgive me if I mispelled the name.
Abby will still let me choose things for her, so she was a little vampiress. She looked so cute and wore the headband most of the night.
Jordan wanted to be a Ninja. We just had to keep reminding him not to use his ninja moves on his sisters.
Tony wasn't too excited about dressing up, but I finally talked him into it. Here's his version of a Zombie.


I tried to get him to let me drizzle fake blood over his clothes, and smear him with dirt. For some reason he didn't want me to!
I probably had the most fun of everyone. My friends and neighbors only knew it was me when they saw me with Tony or the kids. What do you think? Is the vampire look great for me or what?!?


My favorite part was the fangs. If you look closely, you can see them. It's a good thing I go to the dentist next week!

So, on another note, I've been having lots of fun with chocolate. I've been learning how to properly temper and mold it. I thought it would be fun to serve my kids ice cream in chocolate bowls, so that's what I've been trying to make. Needless to say, I haven't had much success, but I've made a number of messes! The latest method has been to coat a balloon with the chocolate. It works great, unless the balloon pops! I'm going to be finding chocolate for weeks!


Here's a picture of the one bowl that didn't explode in the process, along with a very, very, small version of the mess chocolate makes when it explodes. It was fun, though!

Just a quick Happy Birthday to Mom and Megen yesterday! I hope you were both spoiled rotten! Love ya!

To Angel and family, you are in our thoughts and prayers!

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