Ry, Meg, & Cooper: Halloween week!!!

Our Halloween week was super busy!! Tuesday Dad had a spook alley that he did with his scouts for the primary kids, they love it and Coop was obsessed, he went through a zillion times and didn't want to leave when it was time to go. He kept getting me or Mae Mae and Boppa to take him through he would squeal and say "do it again!" so cute. My dad decorated the outside with the grim reaper and scary fencing and he made a headstone for each primary child with their name on it, how cute is that? The spook alley had three different rooms; the first one had lots of masks, and a "floating head" on a table with candy (my dad cut a hole through a table and his scouts would trade off being under it). The second room was mummies, yes my dad has homemade coffins in that room, they are pretty amazing, and the last room has strobe lights and a kid pretending to be dead and one hiding underneath. My Dad loves doing stuff like this, he literally lives for it, it was a good turn out and the kids had a blast.

We had to leave a little bit early to make it to Tyler's setting apart. Ry couldn't make it because he had open gym for his girls and Tony was sick so Ry couldn't leave. The setting was so nice and their stake president seems awesome, Coop was a little hellian the entire blessing tho, he was making sounds and babbling the entire time, except about the last fifteen seconds of the blessing he was silent and then yelled out "AMEN" when it was done. After that we went up for dinner at Ry's parents', Aunt Cindy and Stacia made delicious tacos and amaze ball salsa that I'm going to try to recreate, seriously I could have eaten the entire bowl by myself. We had fun hanging out together, and Ry came as soon as basketball was over. Caz packed Tyler's bags for him and we all just visited until late, I said "bye" to everyone since I knew I wouldn't be able to make the 4:00AM breakfast and took Coop home for bed, it was almost 11:00PM so it was super late for that little guy.

The next night, the night before Halloween, I made homemade potato soup and we painted pumpkins together. I'm thinking more paint ended up on Coop than the pumpkin, between Ry painting his belly and Coop following his lead he was a mess, he took a quick bath and went right to bed. We were all so exhausted that I'm pretty sure we were all asleep by 8:45PM, I had no complaints though, we definitely all needed it.

HALLOWEEN!

I worked out really quick before we had Kindermusik and then I changed Coop into his dinosaur costume for music. He and Kolt had a blast together in their costumes, they played around the whole time and I think were the best they have ever been for music, maybe it was the costumes?

I had an appointment so my Dad came up and hung out at the house while Coop napped and then Ween came up and helped me get Coop ready for Trunk or Treat at Ry's parents ward, we were going to go over to my ward's party and Trunk or Treat, but I wasn't feeling up to it, so we just had a ball at Ry's parents' ward trunk or treat with our family and friends and then just went out to my parents. It's always so fun to see how many trick or treaters they get! We watched Hocus Pocus or "pocus pocus" as Coop calls it, ate popcorn and dove dark and visited with the people that came that we knew. Grandma came out after she got done at the temple and hung out with us for a while, which was nice, we made Coop put his costume back on so she could see his cuteness. Ry has been super busy with work and is starting girls basketball again so we didn't really get to see him which was sad. Coop had a great Halloween and was so exhausted he was becoming silly (we call it sleepy drunk), so my mom followed me home and helped me get him to bed.