Halloween Town

Darren and I started our Halloween festivities on Friday. His school threw a Halloween Carnival so we decided to make a date night out of it and went. For $10 we got pizza, soda, dirt cups (the highlight of the night for Darren), went through a Spook Alley, and got cinnamon rolls we ate for breakfast the next morning.

It was fun to be out with Darren, and so hilarious to see how much his kids already love him. About half a dozen girls ran up to him and couldn't stop saying hi whenever they saw us throughout the night. The Spook Alley was hilarious, but still a little scary. For me. I freaked when someone grabbed my leg in a dark room, and didn't even go in the last room. We had a great time.

When Halloween arrived on Sunday, we were both excited. We had our night all planned out. We had homemade bread bowls with chili for dinner, and watched the Giants game.

After we cleaned up dinner, Darren carved up our pumpkin! I dutifully observed and took pictures.

Our awesome pumpkin in honor of our own San Francisco Giants!

After the game ended we dished up my family's traditional Ghost Cake. I grew up having this cake just about every year. I have no idea when my mom started making it, but it's a staple in my Halloween memories. I was so excited to make it for Darren this year.

 You can get the full effect in this photo:

Most of Idaho Falls trick-or-treated Saturday night, and we were out with Darren's parents, and we plum forgot to buy candy for trick-or-treaters, so we didn't get to see any cute kids all dressed up. We did have one stop by on Sunday, but since it was Sunday and we didn't have candy, I looked at them through the peep hole and didn't open the door. I felt so bad, but I didn't want to say "Sorry, no candy for you".

Our first Halloween together was pretty fun! Maybe next year we'll have a reason to dress up and give out candy :)