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After organizing our church’s Halloween party, Relief Society October craft activity, going to the pumpkin walk, cleaning up a lot of pumpkin guts all month long, I was pretty tired by last weekend and told T.J. I was sick of Halloween and wished we could skip over our party. Just a word to the wise, don’t ever tell T.J. you don’t like Halloween, you’re sick of the holiday, or anything along those lines because he might take it personally. So, I tried to suck it up and put on a happy face for a couple more days so I could get through our annual Halloween party. But I made a deal with T.J. If he didn’t want me to have a complete mental breakdown, then I got to dress up in something easy and simple.

Thankfully, I came up with the idea to be Miranda Sings and T.J. decided to stay dressed as a steampunk villain (his department at work was assigned this costume).

I made a lot of my desserts the day before the actual party and tried to clean throughout the week, so on the actual day of the party, I wasn’t very stressed and got to enjoy the wonderful weather.

We had an incredible turnout. In the beginning, it was almost too crazy but then some people started going outside to the fire pit which helped to give us some more room.

As soon as everyone left, I put all of the decorations away. Enough is enough! But I decided maybe it’s good to do a holiday SO much that when it’s over, you’re not sad about it!

This year, T.J. and I were in charge of our Halloween party at church. It was the first time I’ve been over an event so large, and so let’s just say it had quite a rocky and slow start. But in the end, a handful of people showed up, there was enough food, and I think everyone had fun socializing. Here are some photos (mostly of Eva…oops!):

This month is flying by, I can’t believe it will be Halloween in just a week and a half! We have been really busy, but we still have managed to get some Halloween decorations up, eat all things pumpkin, and do a couple other favorite spooky-themed things.

Last year there was a Groupon for a Halloween river “cruise.” For those of you not from Provo, the Provo river is more like a deep creek. It’s no Ohio or Mississippi river. And the “cruise” was not like the booze cruise episode of the office. Take out Michael Scott (the party-captain) and replace it with a pirate who pulls about twenty people on a little boat down the river using rope overhead. He tells stories like the Headless Horseman and then another pirate comes out to “scare” the kids and tell really terrible pirate jokes. On the banks of the river are hundreds of jack-o-lanterns and many decorative lights.

Honestly, most people probably would think it’s lame. But we’re kind of into those cheesy Halloween things so we soaked it up and jumped on the Groupon offer when it came out this year. Several Monday nights ago, we doubled with T.J.’s old roommate for round two.

I cannot get enough of Eva in that hat. And on the same fashion note, I also am loving that I can wear all my fall clothes this year! Last year at this time I had a baby bump the size of a pumpkin under my shirt.