Happy Meat Pies

It's Halloween and after watching Sweeny Todd last night I decided to try my hand at meat pies...after all Nelson has been begging for them since he got home form his mission....... so here is the first try.

 Project Runway Reject

 Mrs. Lovett

 Have a little priest

 Yummmmm

Nelson tells me they need more gravy, so next time they will have more gravy.

MCC

Halloween Decor

I love decorating for Halloween. Here is this years offering; nothing too scary or creepy, just classic fun.  The Mantel is the best, covered with stuff collected over the years. I have pared down the collection so now I need to punch up the family room and the front door, entry etc....but where to store it?

 Mantel

 up close

 kind of creepy pumpkin man

 so ugly he's cute

 kids old trick or treat buckets are one of my favs

 I set my table with a theme for every month

I have had the paper bag pumpkins for at least 16 years. They were the first decor I put up when we moved back in after the fire. I put them in all of the windows of the house.

Happy Halloween!

MCC

Survived

Here is a look at some of my projects and family activities for the past 2 weeks.

HATS

I made two hats, one for the musical and one for Captain A's Halloween costume.

TRUNK or TREAT
Hayden and Megan were great sports supporting me in our ward Trunk or Treat. Our trunk theme was the movie UP. Hayden was Russell the Wilderness Explorer, Megan Kevin the Bird and Gary was Mr. Fedrickson

HALLOWEEN
Trick or Treat- My Fav Treaters!
Alice, The Mad Hatter and the March Hare
I am so Glad that Laurie likes to do Halloween.

Dad and The Hatter chillin'

do theses make me look smarter?

Dances.......ask and answer

Asking and answering to High School Dances has become quite the art......It has been a fun thing to do with all of my kids but for some reason with Hayden it is an adventure. Every time he has had a crazy, funny experience. For the most recent dance, Halloween Dance he came up with a great idea. With input from Meg and myself and of course our skills at the assembling we thought we had a really nice 'answer'. The note said "No bones about it, it would be a real treat to go the Halloween Dance with you." We did everything skeleton and the note was in a coffin that had a skull and cross bones on top and an evil laugh when you opened it.


The adventure this time came in the delivery......After we discovered where the girl lived we cruised past her house a few times to figure out how to deliver the stuff and ring and run. The house has a curved two entrance driveway so we decided that entering from the top side would be the best. The only problem was you could see the family in the window.....for some reason everyone does this secretly and ring and run style so you have to figure out how to stealthily accomplish the delivery.....anyway after about 20 minutes they moved to another room so Hayden decided that he could deliver the 'answer.' As Hayden is exiting the car the wind picks up causing the balloons to be battered and almost carried away. Luckily he had a firm hold on the balloons, but not a firm hold on the goodie cauldron.....he said, "stuff began to leap out of the cauldron." I looked at Megan and said, "There goes the answer coffin." A car was coming up the street and stuff was flying. Hayden kicks the coffin to the side of the road, a skull goes rolling down the hill. Megan said, "I think I need to help him." So she hops out of the car to chase the skull and reset the cauldron. SO after he regroups he crosses the street to her house. We were watching and I said to Meg, "I think there is someone standing out in the driveway?" We begin to laugh about the whole event. Just as Hayden returns to the car in a hot run and said "Go".....he then begins to laugh as well and tells us all about the delivery adventure.....Yes, there was a person in the driveway, her mom taking something to the garbage.....The Mom sees Hayden and lets out a giggle, Hayden says, "Hi, how you doing?" He continues on to the front door only to find someone else sitting on the front porch....once again "Hi, how you doing?" This person laughs as well and then he asks, "Do you want to tell her that this stuff is here or should I ring the door bell?" They tell him to please ring the door bell because she is just on the other side of the door. Then they say to him "Run."
We laughed our way home not only recalling how funny this was and how much funnier it is in the dark, but we also discussed his delivery of goods for the last dance. At this house there are security cameras....so Hayden finds them and waves wildly at them going to and from the door......
Oh the life of a teenager.

MCC