We spent FHE getting our pumpkins ready.

Everyone helped, well everyone except Nate who was in Chicago at a conference.

This takes some concentration.

And patience. After all that I forgot to take pictures of the finished jack-o-lanterns! My middle son won a prize at the ward party for his pumpkin. It made his night, and he still wears the ribbon around the house.

These are the witches of our little town. We can count on them to be on this corner every Halloween.

This is the annual Halloween Parade along Main Street.

My daughter’s teacher made sure my husband and I could get good pictures.

Here comes Dracula.

The candy trading starts before the Parade is half over.

Now it’s back home for a Cousin’s Halloween Party. We played a game called What If…? First everyone writes a What if question on a piece of paper.

Then everyone folds their paper and puts it in the center of the table. Next everyone takes one of the folded papers and writes an answer to the question on the paper they drew out.

Choose someone to go first. That person reads the question on the paper she is holding and the person sitting next to her reads the answer off his paper.

And this happens.

And this. Once everyone has read a question and answer, hand out fresh papers and repeat. So simple and the cousins laughed and laughed.

The littler cousins played the penny toss for prizes while the older cousins played What if…?

Then everyone participated in the Cake Walk.

Everyone danced to the Monster Mash while going from paper to paper.

Decorating cookies turned into see-how-much-candy-you-can-pile-on-your-cookie.

Then scrape off all the candy and eat the cookie.

This little firefighter chose to skip the decorating part and go straight to the eating. Hope you all had a fun Halloween. We sure did and are certainly glad it only comes once a year.