Ride to a witch started out with getting on a seated trailor pulled by an old fashioned truck. It took us to the out to the outskirts of Gardner village to where the witches lived Criket Hollow Swamp. When we got to the witch's village we were taken on a tour. The first part was a look into their house. The witch that showed us around was Matilda. She talked about what they ate: Tounge, Fingers, eyeballs, all the many gross things that you can think of. The kids got a kick out of it. They also had a real pet tarantula which they called lucky 7. Can you guess why they called it Lucky 7? Because it only had 7 legs of course!
The next witch Brazilla showed us their garden. Which was rotting of course. She then took us to where witch's like to relax. Can you guess what they like to do to relax? Well in a mud bath, mixed with vomit of course! Yuck. The kids thought that was gross! But what else would you expect of a witch? They do some gross things! They had a fake witch in a tub and they let the kids paint her toenails, it was really cute.
The next and last witch was Itsy Bitsy. She had the kiddos make a stew. They added cockroaches, fingers, eyeballs. She also had the kids take a cockroach and bury it in the graveyard. Would you like to know how to bury a cockroach? Well hear goes. Itsy Bitsy said first dig a hole, put the cockroach in, cover it up real good, spit on it, then stomp your foot on it. Lovely! It was hilarious to see these kids do this!
That was the end of the tour and our ride was back to pick us up and take us back. The girls really enjoyed themselves. I tried to get more pictures, but the camera was acting up. I'm happy with the ones we got.
When we got back we walked around to see the witch's display and go into the shops. The girls had so much more fun this year than last year. I think it was because it was so cold last year when we went. One of the shops we went into was a jewelry bead store. They had a deal on ribbon necklaces. They had several different colors, and you could pick your own bead to go on it. So of course the girls chose the purple one with a huge purple bead to go on it. It was about $1.50 for each of them. Totally worth it! Then it was time to head back home, it was fun family night!
The girls with one of the witch's on display:
We decided to carve pumpkins for family night the week of Halloween. It was a good activity to help take our minds off of my Grandma Zollinger who died early Monday morning. We invited my Mom to come help us carve. She is the master carver! Growing up my Mom always had great ideas to carve our pumpkins. Fun times. So my Mom came and helped us carve. I think it was good for her. She hadn't carved a pumpkin in about 3 years. So I cleaned out my pumpkin, helped Kenzie, and Maddie with theirs and cleaned out 1 other pumpkin. McKenzie poked the holed in her pumpkin all by herself, and I helped maddie do hers. Then Matt carved them. My hand was killing me by the end of poking holes in Maddie's pumpkin. Wow!
Here are our pumpkins:
My Mom:
This year for Halloween McKenzie was Super Girl, and Madisynn was Ariel. Super Girl totally fit McKenzie's look and personality. She is totally into the super hero's. Ariel was a super fit to Madisynn as well. Maddie wanted to be Ariel last year, but none of the costumes fit her. We were going to dye her hair red, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I love her blond hair. Anyways they were so excited to dressup! They would ask me everyday if it was Halloween yet and if they could dress up in their costumes. Both girls had a blast dressing up in their costumes for thier school class parties!
This Year Halloween was so different and I will always remember it. So my Grandmas funeral was Saturday October 30th in Logan Utah. In Utah if Halloween falls on a Sunday they celebrate it the day before for religeous purposes for the LDS Church since most of Utah is LDS. Saturday was an extremely busy day we went to the funeral viewing, funeral, cemetary, and funeral lunchean. We also went and visited with my Grandma Kotter since she lives in Logan.
We knew that we would be gone all day, and we were. Our church ward was having a trunk or treat that night. I wasn't sure of when it started, but I thought I heard 5 p.m. which is too early. I brought the girls costumes to put on just in case we were rushed. Well we were rushed and we still didn't have time to change into costume. It was raining in Logan when we left and we just wanted to get home. I wanted to make it home for the trunk or treat because I didn't want to have to go around the neirborhood with just me and the girls. Matt had to work, so he didn't come to the funeral. I drove fast, but safe. It had stopped raining on the way home, but when I was about 3 miles from the I-215 exit it started pouring buckets. I could barely see, I had to slow down real quick. I'm so glad I didn't hydroplane and wreck. It was scary.
So i'm thinking in my head when this is happening that if it's going to be like this I don't want to go out in it. I didn't want to let my girls down though. Before going to the trunk or treat I had to feel up with gas because I was on empty. It's amazing that I made it as far as I did. I was running on fumes! Anyways after filling up with gas i told the girls that we would go to the church and see if the trunk or treat was still going on. It was 6:15 when we pulled up.
We were in luck it was still going on. So I parked and hurried and pulled out the girls costumes and put them on them. Oh yeah they asked if they could switch costumes earlier that day. I had no problem with it, since they both already had their turn wearing their costume. So I put the costumes over the girls church dresses, put their coats on, grabbed the candy I was going to pass out, and started going around to the cars that were still there.
Along the way I gave each kid I passed a handful of candy. We got soaked, but we had fun, and the girls got a good amount of candy. Not too much, and not too little, just the perfect amount! I'm glad we got there when we did. One of my friends that was their said the Trunk or treat started at 5:30. They said that there wasn't very many cars there at that time, so they went around to the cars that were their and left. Then they drove by either at 5:45 or 6:00, and saw that their was a lot more cars there. So yes we got their at a good time!
The girls didn't want to come back home though they wanted to go around the neirborhood. I had to tell them no. We were going to go to my Mom's house and hang out there for awhile. My brother Chris who was in town for the funeral was staying at my Mom's house. Also my little brother Quinn was there as well. So I took the girls home took pictures of them all soaking wet. We only had about 10 trick or treaters come to our house this year too. Luckily I had a candy jar that I could pass candy out from since I had passed out everything that I had bought. Got the girls cleaned up and fed and let them put their costumes on over their pajamas so they could show my Mom when we got to her house. Went to her house and had a blast! The girls pigged out on candy, I actually controlled myself. We also watched How to train your dragon. So love that show, it is so cute! It was an exhausting day, sad, and fun. Is that really possible? Like I said I will never forget this Halloween.
McKenzie and Madisynn in their costumes. I can't believe I forgot to take pictures of Maddie in her Ariel costume the day of her class party. I do know that her teacher took a picture with her in it at the party though, I just don't know when I will get a copy of it. When i do I will post it.
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