Devon and Stacy: Happy Halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, but I usually like it because it is Fall, and it is starting to get cool, and the leaves are changing color and everything is wonderful because summer is coming to an end and I can wear and my winter clothes that I love. BUT... aparently we now live in California and here Fall doesn't exist. It just makes me so sad. Everything is still green. Everyday has been in the low to mid 80's and it just doesn't feel like Fall at all. It really makes me sad. I know that some of you may think I am crazy but I really miss Idaho and I can't wait for that day when we go back. - So as a side note I swear Austin gets sick like every month. It is driving me crazy! Not only does he get sick but it is alway something different that I don't have medicine for and I have to go and find something to give him. First it was alergies, then it was nose congestion, then it was cough with chest congestion, now it is just a cough with a runny nose. I am sitting here listening to him cough up a lung and I have nothing to give him until he wakes up from his nap and we run to the store. Poor monster. - Okay back to Fall and halloween, so since it hasn't felt like Fall I have had a hard time getting into the Halloween spirit. But I did make some sugar cookies and "Boo'd" some people in our ward. I was trying a new way to decorate the cookies and I really liked them. Plus, as an added bonus these cookies were made with 1/3 less sugar (on accident) and 1/2 the fat (on purpose) and they still tasted great. Even Devon who is ULTA picky about less fat kind of things really liked them.

They were really fun to make and pretty easy once I figured out the icing.

As for Halloween it's self we really didn't do much. We had a Halloween party on Friday night that Devon and I went to. It was pretty fun. Devon and I dressed up as "Hit and Miss" where he was bindfoled and had a bow and arrows, and I had an apple on my head and then arrows that "missed" on my dress and body. It was pretty funny but for some unknow reason I didn't get a picture of Devon and I togeather, but I know there were some taken I just need to get a hold of them. Sat. we had the ward party and trunker treat, we dresses up again and I think I really scared some of the poor kids in my primary class...oops. Austin dressed up as a little monkey and was so cute. Then on Wed. it was pretty much a regular day. I let Austin wear his costume all day and we had play group at the park and then I tried to run errands and then took him with me tutoring. Once we got home I made some yummy soup and then we put Austin to bed and had some friend over and watched Transformers (which we all really liked) We ended up not having a single trick-or-treater, well kind of. So when the boys went to go get the movie my friend Meg and I were talking and someone knocked on the door. Me thinking it was Devon yelled "come in" then Meg looked at me and said "um, I think it might be trick-or-treaters" I was like crap, don't come in! So I ran up and answered the door and it was a couple of teenager girls who weren't even dressed up. The only reason I gave them candy was because I knew what ever I didn't give them I would end up eating LOL. SO, that was the sum of my halloween and Austin's first halloween experiance. Here are some pict.