Mom's Letters: Trunk or Treat!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Trunk or Treat!

Tonight our ward had our trunk or treat. Thankfully we went very simply this year with no dinner or anything -- just trick or treating and a trunk decorating contest!

The night was beautifully warm and all the kids had a ball. I was glad not to have spent my day setting up. And in the end everyone had a good time.

Here are some pictures of the kids: Minnie Mouse, Superman and "The HUMAN TORCH from Fantastic Four" (amazing) and the two winning trunks! Pretty good!

1 comment:

The Thompson's said...: Looks like a fun time! I am freaking out! Didn't know you were planning on moving OUT OF STATE! AND that your house was for sale and ALREADY SOLD!!!! Are you kidding???? That's great for you guys but you will SURELY be missed! We've got to get together soon and more often!; October 29, 2008 at 9:21 PM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Trunk or Treat!

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