Halloween

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Halloween

It amazes me every year that Halloween has turned in to a month long event.

Even the day itself, was a marathon day.

The boys spent the morning trick-or-treating at the zoo.

We did this once before when Ammon was younger and it was fun.

This year it seemed like an obvious thing to do.

(We live half a mile from the zoo and have an anual pass.)

As it turned out, I had some assignments due that day so I spent the morning working on school.

The three guys went to the zoo and left me to my homework.

I was able to finish my school work soon after they got back.

We began to prepare for an afternoon trick-or-treat activity with some neighbors.

They were all heading over to a local shopping center.

Before we headed out, I received an unexpected call.

I knew it was bad news when the person introduced herself as the sister of my friend.

She was calling to ask if I could teach a lesson in church the next day.

My friend, who was supposed to teach, wouldn't be there.

She had taken her 5 month old baby into the instacare and ended up at Primary Children's Hospital.

The diagnosis of baby Aubree - lukemia.

Of course I was more than willing to prepare the lesson for the next day.

And then we headed out to trick or treat.

The place was a zoo.

We only ended up with one of our neighbors, but it was still fun for the boys.

I was terribly distracted and worn out.

As we left, the rain started in.

We had intended to head down and trick or treat in South Jordan but aborted that plan.

We went home for dinner - Andy's red beans and rice.

(He makes it every Halloween.)

I talked more with Autumn's sister and was able to arrange to take her dinner.

(Yay for being able to do something helpful!)

While I was at the hospital, Andy took the boys out one last time

They trick or treated around our place to some of our friends and neighbors.

Honestly, I think they had more fun passing out candy to the people who came here after they got home.

Overall, Halloween was a fun month.

I'm glad it's over.

For updates about Aubree, you can go here:

Aubree Labarca

I was going to say more about Aubree's mom Autumn,

and how amazing she is, but I'll leave that for another post.

1 comment:

MichelleNovember 11, 2010 at 5:50 PM
LOL - I like that, "Halloween was a fun month." And so true! Sorry to hear about little Aubree, that's terrible.
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