I am beyond behind in putting pictures on here, and this is the beginning of my attempt to catch up just for the sake of my journaling. Someday I will pay the huge expense to have both of my blogs, this one plus our old one on wordpress, printed. I want to make sure that when I do I have all of the pictures on there that show what we've been up to and what happy memories we were busy creating.

This year Halloween was crazy busy! It seems that each year there are more and more places that the girlies want to make sure we hit. We started out by heading up to the cemetery to Trick or Treat from the candy bucket we put on Naki's grave. Each week in October we'd head up there and refill it, imagining the visitors coming and sharing the treats we'd left. It was one of my favorite parts of Halloween, actually. It has become a happy place for us, believe it or not. One of these days I should video everyone piling out of the car and sprinting up to the top of the hill...it's truly adorable. After that we went to my sister's neighborhood. This part of the evening was by far the most relaxing because my adorable brother in law volunteered to take ALL of the kiddos around the neighborhood while I sat back and relaxed on their couch and visited with my sister as she handed out treats. After time kept ticking past, I started to worry for him! I realized that unlike last year, we didn't send him with a stroller or a wagon for the two littles he had in the group, and I hoped that everything was going okay for all. They showed up happy and chatty about all the fun they'd had, and Matt, the trooper, was carrying all the costume props and several candy buckets as well. What a great Uncle. Thanks Matt and Katie for a fun time!

(This picture I took before we devoured it. Our dinner angels, who have been bringing us dinner once a week since Naki died, brought this in October. Honestly, it's the first time I've seen the girls eat their vegetables so well just because they loved the skeleton so much. Thanks dinner angels!)














After the girls were finished there we trick or treated in our Ward boundaries, visited Grandma and Grandpa Maile's for a bit, and headed to our friends, The Baileys', home for the best jackpot ever. While we were there the girlies all got their pictures taken by Alan...I will try to post them next. They turned out awesome. Man, I just love those Baileys. If it weren't for them I don't know where we'd be living, since they helped us buy their house where we currently live. Ane loves them so much that as we were leaving she asked if she could just stay and chill with them for a while. We were just going to be heading out and pounding the pavement for some more treats which she was apparently done with, so we left her there and went to see some more friends in our neighborhood. I don't care for all the candy that Halloween brings. I'm not one of those people that tries to hit the neighborhoods that give out the best candy. Instead, I just love being in the areas that all of our friends are in so that we can see everyone. Many who know me know that I am not a Halloween enthusiast. But this whole idea of getting to see all of our friends dressed up being silly I could really get hooked on. Who knows...maybe one of these years I'll join in on the silliness. I stuck a pencil behind my ear and told the girls that I was a college student. :) Happy belated Halloween.