The Blackburn Five: Ward Halloween Party-Oct. 30, 2007

So we had a fun ward halloween party this year. Instead of the usual trunk-or-treat, they did a carnival. It started with dinner, including a chili contest, and a pie contest. We made both. My chili was good but not great, I've actually never made chili before, so just picked a recipe and kinda sorta followed it! For the pie I made a pumpkin cheesecake and ended up getting the award for "most creative pie." That was because I decorated the top with spiders, bugs and skeletons. I've never made one of those either but had one a few weeks ago at Olive Garden and if you haven't tried it there, I HIGHLY recommend it-probably the best dessert ever made. My version was not as good as O.G.'s but was pretty tasty too. Charlie grew pumpkins in our garden this year, I think we got 5 of them, all oddly shaped and not beautiful, but we were still proud! He brought them all to the party to try to get rid of them. The one in the picture is the smallest one we got. Charlie and I both dressed up as nurses this year, unfortunately we forgot to get a picture of the two of us together. I always forget to take pictures of myself...anyone else ever do that?! For Halloween Night we dressed the kids up and met friends (Grant, Brandy & Sage) over in Spring Valley Lake and let the kids do some trick-or-treating. Drex's favorite part was ringing the door bells. He and Sage kept racing eachother to get the bell first. Quin was a great sport to actually say "trick-or-treat" and "thankyou" at all the doors, while Drex wouldn't make a peep...just hold his bag out until they dropped some candy in! I just pushed Liberty around in the stroller. She didn't really have any interest, and was actually not feeling very well. It was a beautiful night out and the weather was perfect, another fun Halloween!

Charlie won the award for "most distinct shape pumpkin." He grew this one in our back yard...but didn't have time to carve it :(