First, we celebrated Grandma Great's 95th birthday. In true Aunt Deb style, the festivities began with a treasure hunt for all the great grands in attendance.
The hunt was fun enough--what with riotous good time for cousins from near and far--but the kids were over the moon to find the treasure hunt resulted in actual treasure! (jewels and MONEYS). Then we shared a lovely evening, good food and even smores with family we don't always get to see much.
The next day, we drove up to beautiful Cache Valley for more cousin time and to see family we really don't see much of--all orchestrated by Deb and Sue and Marianne and Deb and Sue were both too sick to even enjoy it! But we enjoyed it all for them.
The next weekend, we headed to the Oceanside California, to see the ocean (it's been a few children ago since we'd tried) and see dear friends who'd moved there at the beginning of the summer. We had alternate activities planned, like Legoland, touring aircraft carriers and old missions, but we never got beyond the sand, the surf and good friends.
If only it weren't so expensive, and with such crazy traffic, we'd stay here forever!
And then, we came to the end of the month with its multiple Halloween festivities. Z opted out this year. He says he's too old. CE dressed up, in part because it's part of her grade in Leadership to do so for school, but she's always liked it more than Z anyway. The rest of the kids were too excited about every aspect to wait out even one second.
I was just pleased that we seem to have planned our candy purchases just right--dolling out almost all of what the kids received at DH's work trick or treat AND the ward trunk or treat to other children on our street, so that we only now have to contend with what the littles brought home from the actual trick or treating, and since only Bam and M went out tonight, that shouldn't be too bad.
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