Happy Halloween!

Well, this has been a fun Halloween day and evening. Not such a fun day for Richard since he had to have four cavities filled! He's still at work and Steven is at the MTC greeting the new missionaries (six new elders and four new sisters) tonight. After I dropped Rich off in AF this afternoon, I went to Papa Murphey's in PG to pick up a couple of Jack-o-lantern pizzas for dinner. It was pretty wild and crazy there--lots of people had the same idea, and I couldn't order ahead because they weren't answering the phone. I guess they had enough business without taking phone orders! While waiting for the pizzas, I talked to Sarah on the phone. It's sounds like they had fun taking Eliza around the department today. Joel was at his night class and Sarah had had no trick-or-treaters as of that time. I finally got my two pizzas and took them over to the Barretts. I started baking them while Lindy and the girls were over at Grandpa and Grandma Barrett's house. They came home the same time as Nate, so we all had some Jack-o-lantern pizza for dinner. The girls looked cute in their costumes--Camden was a beautiful princess with glow-in-the dark earrings and pink hair, Riley was Snow White with real Snow White (dark) hair, and Sidney was a witch with purple spikey hair. We had cookies that the girls had decorated for our treat. Then they went trick-or-treating. I went with them and Nate for a few houses, then Lindy went with them while I passed out treats, then she and Sidney came home and we passed out some more treats. I talked to Tiff on the phone for a minute and she had just gotten back from their "cemetery tour." It sounded like she was having fun. (We were remembering that last Halloween she and I went to The Myrtles [the most haunted house in America] in St. Francisville, La. The night before Halloween we stayed at Linden in Natchez, MS. We think it is definitely haunted also.)When the little girls got home they had lots of treats! Camden's earrings were glowing in the dark! While there I got to see Eliza on the Agate blog in her lobster costume. What a cute little lobster she was! After it got dark I came home in time to pass out some treats to the neighborhood kids. It's a nice evening to be out--not too cold and it didn't get dark too early since we haven't gone off daylight savings time yet. Well, it seems like the trick-or-treating has slowed down a bit. I think I'll do a couple of things and then head to AF. Steven should be home by the time Rich and I get back. Happy Halloween everyone!